Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – As we lay the groundwork for a COVID recovery and energy transition, Heather Scoffield comments on the importance of making sure resources go…
February 2021
Watcher in the Snow
Great Blue Heron – Richmond, BC
Raising the state’s visible hand: Towards a people-centred green transition
Tar sands mining in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Photo by Kris Krüg/Flickr. Canada’s ability to knit together an accelerated climate and economic revitalization plan has been put to the test as…
After The Vaccinations
There has been a lot of speculation about a spring election. Chantal Hebert writes there won’t be an election until vaccinations are in the arms of Canadians: Erin O’Toole is…
The fortunate Marxist: Ernie Tate (1934-2021)
Ernie Tate (1934-2021) was a long-standing supporter and leading member of Trotskyist groups in Canada and the United Kingdom and a founder of the International Marxist Group and Vietnam Solidarity…
Musings on Making Pasta, No. 4
I made another batch of pasta this weekend to test my new mafaldine cutter, but it proved problematic . The dough jammed in it against the blades, so I had…
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the week of February 15, 2021
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of February 15, 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 February 15, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of February 15, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: Georgia Officials Review Trump Phone Call as Scrutiny Intensifies Trump impeachment trial…
Does Singh know why O’Toole’s nice to him?
It might have been the annual event celebrating Saint Valentine, but Jagmeet Singh of the new democrats should be suspicious of all the cards he received from conservative MPs. The…
The Annals of Alberta poetry: The United Conservative Party sends us a Kenney Valentine
I choo-choo-chooose To get a fair deal for you — Actual United Conservative Party Valentine’s Day Twitter meme Keystone is dead The billions are lost I blame Joe Biden But…
Minister Savage on Coal Policy
What did we learn from Energy minister Savage’s press conference announcing the so-called reversal of the government’s unbelievably bone-headed decision to cancel the 1976 Coal Policy? Well, Ms Savage has…
Covid Journal, February 14, 2021
Why should the Liberals push through an ‘internet tax’ when it’s already being shown to be a failure in other countries? In other news, the ‘vaccine panic’ being whipped up…
The Rebel
Everyone wants their cake, and they want to eat it, too. Well, here’s news for you. It doesn’t work that way, in the real world. There is a great fascination…
You are eating things that don’t exist
We all have little things that irk us. It might be when music is too loud at a restaurant, or when drivers don’t use their signal lights, or when bloggers…
Love, From Ralph Wiggum
I’m sure Jason’s message will be well-received. But I like the source material better: Recommend this Post
Core message
“How much do I know? I’m young and unschooled Bet l’m younger than you And even Jesus would Never forgive what you do I want to ask you one question…
The trouble with Canadian aid
One of the many internally displaced persons (IDP) tent camps that sprang up around the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Photo courtesy Haiti Liberté. Global Affairs Canada,…
Candour, Volume One
I get periodically overwhelmed with the suffering of humanity. Spiritual practice should, and eventually does, bring a measure of calm abiding. And while I have practiced, and my inner strength…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Nazeem Muhajarine discusses the importance of a response to the coronavirus which recognizes how a virus can change course and pose new…
Andrew Bacevich, "When Poisons Curdle."
There’s something that’s poisoning democracy in the United States. Retired US army commander turned historian and author, Andrew J. Bacevich, writes that it’s the toxin Martin Luther King identified as…