Covid-19 is a Delayed Action Killer
The anti-mask/anti-vaccine crowd routinely downplays the severity of the Covid-19 virus. Some like to compare the current pandemic, now in its seventh month, to the Spanish Flu of 1918 that…
2020
Basic income is on the table in Canada. Is it the fight we want?
While the pandemic economy is far from behind us, the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB)—Canada’s chief unemployment benefit—is soon coming to an end. Many on the left have since begun…
Punting Responsibility
As Canada has faced COVID-19 and worked to deal with this pandemic, we’ve seen many institutions in our country face hard times responding to this unprecedented crisis. We’ve seen community…
Higher Learning, Higher Infection
Many of us live in dread of Covid-19 creeping into our children’s classrooms. Little kids, getting sick, bringing the virus back home to their siblings, parents, perhaps grandparents. Scary stuff.…
Trump’s Venezuela regime change alliance dwindles, but Trudeau hangs on
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro at the First Plenary Session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Cochabamba, Bolivia, June 4, 2012. Photo by Juan Manuel…
An Unnecessary Election in New Brunswick?
We’re coming to the end of the Summer and in normal times there would be a usual ramping up of things to come. The return to school, the return of…
Timothy Snyder Urges Americans to Keep a Close Eye on Belarus
Yale prof, Timothy Snyder, is probably best known for his book, “On Tyranny, Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century.” (available free on PDF here) He’s considered something of an expert…
Our Hottest Decade
The last decade was the hottest on record but this decade, the 2020s, is blowing the doors off it. And, when it comes to heat, America remains Number One. What…
140Law: Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of August 17, 2020
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of August 10, 2020. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Aug…
We get letters: I agree
I agree. I know nothing about the Demorat Party.
The Same Things
If you want to know why the United States is such a screwed up country, William Cooper writes, don’t blame the politicians. Blame the people who put them there: Data…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of August 17, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 17, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: McDonald’s is suing its ousted CEO for lying about sexual relationships with…
Oddities: online term paper ‘ghostwriter’ site believes impersonator used UCP minister’s name and credentials
An online custom term paper writing service called UnemployedProfessors.com says it now believes a contract writer listed on its website under the name and credentials of Alberta’s minister of advanced…
Dog lovers, unite: Off Leash Adventures is what you need
Live in B.C.? Live in Vancouver? Live in North Vancouver? Got dogs who – like Joey and Roxy – need the best friggin’ outing they can ever have? You need…
What Will They Think of Next?
For the first time in the history of the US Weather Service the agency has issued a “fire tornado” warning. The Reno office of the National Weather Service warned Northern…
Learn To Code Episode 3: Project 1: MineSweeper, Part 2
In this video we continue with the MineSweeper project. We construct some new unlit materials and create our MineSweeper tile actor prototype.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egkq4oHIU7I
Has the Clock Run Out on Bill Morneau?
With Mark Carney hovering in the wings is the writing on the wall for Trudeau finance minister, Bill “Job Churn” Morneau? There have been a few reports of friction between…
S.O.S. – Save Our Soils, Save Our Souls
One of the great ecological challenges of this century will be to save our stocks of farmland from soil degradation. While the degree of soil degradation varies from country to…
Some Good News on the Pandemic Front
The US FDA has approved a new Covid-19 detection test that is said to be less costly, fast, more accurate and, best of all, non-invasive. A COVID-19 saliva test is…