Global Carbon Emissions Rise Again
After four consecutive years of modest declines, carbon emissions are again on the increase. The UN warned that global emissions needed to peak by 2020 and then begin a sharp…
November 2018
That’s What You Get For Loving Me
While thinking about General Motors’ announcement that it will be closing the company’s Oshawa assembly plant next December, I couldn’t help but wonder just how secure the remainder of Canada’s…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday November 27, 2018. Today we are talking about Employment Law. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise…
Art of the Smear: the Israel Lobby Busted
In 2016 and 2017 Al Jazeera produced a program that unmistakenly documents the Israel government and U.S. Israel lobby’s all-out effort to spy on, smear, and disrupt American students and…
He Misses The Big Picture
GM is pulling out of Oshawa. And Doug Ford has rolled over. Martin Regg Cohn writes: No premier can force GM to cry uncle. But for reasons understood only by…
Neoliberalism’s Dark Path to Fascism
Neoliberalism as economic theory was always an absurdity. It had as much validity as past ruling ideologies such as the divine right of kings and fascism’s belief in the Übermensch.…
How Individuals and Governments can Save Bees
Butterflies and bees need our help. They’re currently dying off due to changes in their environments while also being sprayed with deadly pesticides. A bunch of countries have banned the…
American capitalism betrays us.
Since 1908, when Sam McLauglin started building auto bodies in Oshawa for William Durant’s Buicks, Canada has been part of what became General Motors. Through good times and bad times,…
the move west: day eight: sicamous to delta bc
Sicamous looked like a sweet little town, nestled on the shore of the Shuswap River, with mountains visible on two sides. We had breakfast at Grandma’s and Grandpa’s Family Restaurant.…
What’s wrong with local media?
“It’s about trust. Our relationship with our readers is built on transparency, honesty and integrity.” So opens the front-page piece in this weekend’s Connection, titled in all-caps, “Local News Needs…
Where I spent my afternoon
…making Chad, Kathleen and Travis look good. Pundits panel at @OREAinfo #orpc18 moderated by @Travisdhanraj with @kinsellawarren @kathleenmonk and @hckosovogta provided great insights and natural rapport.@kinsellawarren tells it like it…
We’ve Got a Neoliberalism Problem and It Will Control Us If We Don’t Tame It.
When Thatcher, Reagan and Mulroney coaxed us to board the neoliberal train, very few of us realized it would carry us to authoritarianism, inequality and perhaps even fascism. Yet as…
Of Course He Doesn’t Believe It
The White House picked their moment, Friday afternoon of the Thanksgiving Day weekend, to release their own government’s Fourth National Climate Assessment. The Trump White House wanted the report buried,…
Things Can Change Overnight – Wise Law, Employment Lawyers, Toronto
“Things can change overnight in any workplace…” – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Alberta’s Bitumen Pits are a Racket and We’ve All Been Sucked In. A Made-by-Conservatives Fiasco.
You’ve probably seen how the mob will takeover a small but profitable business, bleed it dry and then split, leaving the empty, ruined hulk a dead loss for out-of-pocket creditors.…
I Said It Would Come to This. Those Bastards Are Planning Again!!
Our cousins across the pond, a.k.a. “the Brits”, are planning for climate change. Not 1.5 or even 2 degrees Celsius but 4 degrees Celsius of warming and what that would…
Connectivism and Language Learning
This is in response to the following question from a student in Iran: I am going to start an academic project on the application of connectivism in the context of…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Robinson Meyer rightly criticizes the Trump administration for trying to bury a devastating national climate assessment on Black Friday. – David Leonhardt discusses…
Alberta the Ugly and the Toxic Trudeau Haters
I don't know when Alberta first became the vile hate mongering place it is today. Maybe it was before my time.Or maybe ten years of the greasy oil pimp Stephen…