2020
Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
News that asteroid “2018 VP1“, will pass within about 480 kms of Earth on November 2, 2020, has raised social media hopes that it might be drawn in by the…
Will Justin Trudeau Seize The Chance To Remake Canada?
The day Justin Trudeau won the 2015 election was the day I first began to believe in the possibility of real change. It was like coming out of the darkness…
Justin Trudeau and the Ratty Con Media
As I'm sure you know, I have long complained about the growing influence of our ratty Con media, and the way it has helped turn our politics into a sewer,…
America Confronts its IDP Problem
IDP or Internally Displaced Population is a term that was once used to describe groups of civilians forced to leave their homes to seek refuge elsewhere in war-torn countries such…
How to Starve Conspiracy Theories of Their Power
I consider myself to be a lucky person. I’ve had the chance to get to do some amazing things in my life and live out some of my dreams. Getting…
On risky responses
Plenty of people have taken note of the Saskatchewan Party’s “Kate” data collection scheme – and it’s given rise to much due mockery, as well as some important recognition of…
Tracing the geography of Canada’s racist liquor control policies
Toronto Police arresting a man for illegal possession of alcohol, September 16, 1916. Photo courtesy of Library and Archives Canada. On a Saturday afternoon in mid-January, Winnipeg musician John K.…
I sold Americans a lie about Canadian medicine. Now we’re paying the price.
Wendell Potter is a former president of CIGNA, as a corporate propagandist he misled and deceived Americans about Canadian Health Care. He has since turned whistleblower and reveals the Insurance…
Looking Back 10 Years Ago
https://wp.me/pDJ8-h6 My blog post from 10 years ago, about a pandemic, and death rate in Russia.
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Kat Devlin and J.J. Moncus point out how people were justifiably pessimistic about burgeoning inequality even before a pandemic which has further consolidated…
Farewell America
It’s human nature to think the world as you know it, as you’ve known it all your life, is normal. Hey, that’s all you’ve ever known for 40 or 50,…
Why the Democratic World Needs to Care About Belarus
2020 has been a very difficult year for many good reasons beyond the COVID pandemic. As I pointed to last week, we here in Canada are particularly interested in watching…
simple but amazing experiences healing dogs from past trauma
Cookie recently had a fear reaction, and we’re working on desensitization. I thought I would share our experience with changing fearful behaviour. Diego Not long after we adopted Diego, we…
When Pathological Liars Speak
Hold them to account. I've been complaining for four years about interviewers not fact-checking Trump to his face. In the past few weeks, we've gotten some good evidence that this…
140Law: Top 10 Legal Headlines for the Week of August 10, 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…
Throwing It All Away
Tom Friedman writes that recent events in Lebanon provide a stark warning. Things go horribly wrong when everything becomes political. In Lebanon, it’s been that way for a long time:…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of August 10, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 10, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm Manhattan DA probing Trump Organization for ‘insurance…
Illusions of knowledge #nlpoli
Last week,testimony in the travel ban case by the province’s chief medical officer Dr. Janice Fitzgerald and epidemiologist Dr. Proton Rahman confirmed the extent to which decisions taken by the…
Blast radius mapped onto London Ontario
If the Beirut blast were in London Ontario Map from Google. Image inset and caption copy from Global News Lots of places have offered overlays of various Canadian harbour cities.…