Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joanne Light and Cathy Orlando point out that we don’t have any more time to waste in reining in a climate breakdown…
2019
The Dutch have no lock on sex.
Contrary to the opinions of tourists by the canals of Amsterdam, the Dutch did not invent sex. It is more likely that they are just more open about it. As…
Maxine Bernier poses with white supremacist group
…one of whom makes a white power symbol. When someone shows you who they really are, believe them. @MaximeBernier posing with white nationalist street gang northern guard. NG are a…
Alberta’s foreign-funded-fossil-fuel defamation inquisition: Stand by for an expensive gong show
Here are three predictions about Jason Kenney’s inquiry into that “foreign-funded defamation campaign” against Alberta’s fossil fuel industry. It will be a gong show It will cost far more than…
Golf scholarship boy wants input
Son Three wants you guys to rate his swing. pic.twitter.com/nMSfYQMYO0 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 9, 2019
What Really Went On Between Epstein and His Girls
The story of Jeffrey Epstein and his collection of underage girls takes a bit of reading. The Miami Herald did an amazing job of digging into Epstein, the girls and…
City should ‘step up’ to find shelter for people in Oppenheimer Park: park board chair
by Taran Parmar and Lisa Steacy Jul 7, 2019 VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) — After a large homeless camp at Oppenheimer Park caused an annual festival to relocate, one park board commissioner…
The Burden They Bear – The Life and Times of Climate Scientists
“I have to walk away…” Maybe you feel stressed out about climate change. Maybe you don’t. There are many ways to unplug – denialism, unfounded optimism, even indifference. That is…
The irony of Italy’s immigration policy
Italy has a baby problem. Apparently Italians aren’t making enough of them. The country’s birth rate is the lowest it’s been since Italy itself was born in 1861. With deaths…
The Plot to Keep Jeremy Corbyn Out of Power
Photo by Davide Simonetti In the latest of the interminable media “furores” about Jeremy Corbyn’s supposed unfitness to lead Britain’s Labour party – let alone become prime minister – it…
The Koch Brothers and the Tar-Sands
Photo by NRDC Big Lies and Ecocide in Canada As we know, big lies can run free across borders with few people joining the dots. For example, no media has…
Corporate Friendly Premier Horgan Oversees The Flip Flop Sellout At Shawnigan
Today’s political soup offers little in the way of social or environmental sustenance. The Horgan government’s Environment minister George Heyman delivered the decision selling out the citizens of Shawnigan Lake…
Will Quebec Finally Become a Distinct Society Politically?
These are interesting times in North America. There are general elections looming in both Canada and the United States. In 2019, Canadians will decide if they want to continue to…
Will Quebec Finally Become a Distinct Society Politically?
These are interesting times in North America. There are general elections looming in both Canada and the United States. In 2019, Canadians will decide if they want to continue to…
Andrew Scheer and the Curse of Doug Ford
I see Andrew Scheer has been playing cowboy, and flipping pancakes at the Calgary Stampede.And although I'm sure Scheer was happy to be half a continent away from Doug Ford…
Cash For Access-Chinese Government Funding UBCM-Mayor Al Siebring Weighs in
It gives you pause to realize that a significant number of BC’s locally elected officials are OK with the thinly veiled scheme of influence. It is embarrassing to see how…
140Law: Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of July 8, 2019
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of July 8, 2019. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jul…
Educated Ignorance
2019 has been a rough year in our politics so far, and with a big election coming in the fall, it seems to be sure to get harder before it…
Mean, Nasty People
If you think Donald Trump is the only leader who is hellbent on investigating his opponents, think again. It’s happening here, too. An editorial in The Globe and Mail focuses…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of July 8 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 8, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: Federal Judge Blocks Barr’s Attempt to Deny Asylum Seekers Bail A hearse…