Music Fatigue – NaBloPoMo Day 14
There’s an interesting conundrum in the fall, that gets people arguing every year. More than just Daylight Saving Time (which is silly and all this malarky with changing clocks makes…
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LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday November 14, 2018. Today we are talking about Family Law. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise…
When Government is Run By A Thug
Doug Ford’s government has only been in office for five months. But already it is engulfed in scandal. Robert Benzie and Rob Ferguson report in the Toronto Star that: Chaos…
Underlining the ignorance of Trump.
U.S. President Donald Trump is but an immature child playing at being the leader of the most powerful nation on earth. The point was so perfectly positioned the other day…
Watch This Anti-Palm Oil Ad Banned in the UK
Palm oil gets used in plenty of consumer goods and processed foods, as a result the demand for palm oil increases every year. The problem with using palm oil is…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Trish Garner comments on the need to acknowledge the humanity of people living in poverty – which leads to the inescapable need to…
On the Origins of Cultural Marxism
From an article by Samuel Moyn in the New York Times: “‘Classical Marxists, where they obtained power, expropriated the bourgeoisie and gave their property to the state,’ ‘Where you obtained…
Ezra Levant’s "Rebel Media" Event Provides Media Pass To Hate Group
Hey, so you know how Maxime Bernier wanted to have ridding officials for his new party sign a pledge not to embarrass him and his new People's Party of Canada?…
Proportional representation – Arguments in favour based on the results of the 1993 election.
This is an essay I wrote in 1997 titled Ten Arguments for Proportional Representation. I used the 1993 federal election as a starting point. Some of the discussion is clearly…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats with company.
Citizen Trump
Watching the Trump years at the White House is like watching Citizen Kane without knowing how it ends, without even knowing what “rosebud” will mean. We are, however, picking up…
McGill students defeat intolerance
Congratulations to Tomas Jirousek, Ben Kinsella and other students for this important victory. More here. McGill University students have voted in favour of changing the name shared by the school’s…
Nov. 13: The Canadian Empire
Oh yes, there is a Canadian empire. Us Canadian just don’t like to brag. (I guess that’s why the Moncton Times and Transcript never mentions it.) Like all empires, it…
One More Reason The Cons Will Lose The Next Election
If you remember, when we last left Andrew Scheer he was riding with the notorious Ford Gang, the ugliest group of Con climate change deniers this country has ever known.And…
A Government Stymied by Cognitive Dissonance
Peter Lowry (Babel-on-the-Bay) posts that some sort of donnybrook that pits Liberal caucus petro-pols against their fellow environnmental backers is underway. To me it seems like they’re debating whether to…
"What Do I Have To Do To Earn A Decent Life?"
As my disenchantment with humanity and myself grows, I look for things to counteract the deep cynicism that has gripped me, things that demonstrate the resilience, strength and compassion that…
Why I am going to vote Yes in the referendum
Anyone who knows me will be shocked by the brevity of this piece. However, for me, it is pretty easy to see why the city of Calgary should move forward…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday November 13, 2018. Today we are talking about Employment Law. Did you know that a probationary period may go longer…
Cat videos – NaBloPoMo Day 13
Let’s take a moment to remember the origins of something that’s changed the way we do business, the way we consume arts and culture, and ultimately, the way we communicate.…
None Dare Call It Victory: U.S. 2018 Elections
Photo by U.S. Embassy Canada For months, the leadership of the Democratic Party hyped the message that a ‘blue wave’ was on its way that would politically engulf Trump and…