A COVID Wake Up Call in the Form of a Chart
Do you believe it’s already the last week of January? This year seems to be moving fast so far and it hasn’t been that great. As was pointed out to…
January 2021
Talking COVID and the Return of Parliament on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We discussed the return of Parliament in Ottawa for…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Jim Brumby writes about the multiple growing disruptions to economic health and security which could be addressed by a wealth tax. – Kim…
Why Saunderson Should Resign Now
Imagine an issue so important, so utterly non-partisan that both the National Post and the Toronto Star — two newspapers of widely divergent politics, perspectives, and ideology — agreed. That…
Erin O’Toole’s Still Massive Far Right Problem
If Erin O'Toole thought he could solve the Cons far right problem by expelling the ugly bigot Derek Sloan, he must be sorely disappointed, or seriously deluded. For although it…
Making Government Work
Joe Biden has talked a lot about unity. But, E.J. Dionne writes, unity is being overtaken by urgency: Senate Democrats won their 49th and 50th seats in Georgia’s two runoff…
Burning Iron: An Eco-Friendly Brewing Process
Swinkels Family Brewers in the Netherlands recently adopted a new way to heat their brewing process: melted iron. And it’s arguably sustainable. It’s not as weird as it sounds. Essentially…
Covid Journal, January 25, 2021
‘Stay in place’ measures are necessary to prevent Covid spread, but what are we doing to REALLY get at the largest volume of Covid deaths – ie. with the nation’s…
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the week of January 25, 2021
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of January 25, 2021. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of January 25, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 25, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: ‘Enough is enough’: Toronto issues 75 weekend charges for lockdown violations Toronto…
Trudeau’s chance to kill TransMountain!
It’s no secret. If U.S. president Joe Biden can cancel the Keystone XL pipeline, why cannot Justin Trudeau cancel twinning of the TransMountain pipeline? The single line can still be…
Episode 67: Senator Paula Simons and Alberta Unbound
Independent Alberta Senator Paula Simons joins the Daveberta Podcast to discuss what it is like to represent Albertans in the Canadian Senate during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also discuss the…
How much of the pipe that was supposedly ready to build Keystone XL is fit only for scrap?
Alberta is unlikely to recoup much of its $1.5-billion loss on the Keystone XL Pipeline by selling off unused pipe now that the Biden Administration has pulled the plug on…
Albertans support net-zero by 2050, but …
A recent survey by Janet Brown Opinion Research, commissioned by the Pembina Institute, showed some encouraging attitudes of Albertans toward climate change. For example, two-thirds of those surveyed support the…
Saunderson’s Role in Blocking the Hospital Redevelopment
During the previous council’s four years (2014-18), I documented the aggressive efforts to stall the local hospital’s desperately-needed redevelopment by a group of those on council (aka The Block*). Every…
THE MUSIC BETWEEN US: Memoir of a Bedside Musician
I am always fascinated by stories of personal transformation. How does anyone achieve redemption, wisdom, grace and meaning after experiencing or witnessing prolonged suffering? I’m especially interested when those stories…
On root causes
Shorter Scott Moe on threats against Dr. Saqib Shahab: I have no idea how these idiots got the idea that policy disagreement entitles you to engage in violent rhetoric and…
And the World moves on…. (or why Alberta needs to pay attention to the way other people are getting their energy)
When I was a child, I was privileged in that I got to travel to Jamaica and Barbados to see my relatives. The trips were amazing; and, each time I…
How capitalism’s dogged defenders and propagandists defend it from criticism
Photo by Jorge Salvador/Unsplash The more victims and critics of capitalism coalesce and thereby strengthen one another, the more that economic system is questioned and challenged. That in turn provokes…