Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of February 22, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of February 22, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: Justice Delayed and Denied in Ontario’s Tribunals Reports of domestic, intimate partner…
February 2021
The silence of Doug Ford’s lambs.
Sometime in the next couple months, the province of Ontario is expected to offer me the opportunity to get one or two jabs with a needle. This knowledge alone is…
Brian Brennan, 77, elegant wordsmith, musician, courageous trade unionist
Brian Brennan, elegant wordsmith, storyteller, professional musician and brave leader of the strike at the Calgary Herald in 1999 and 2000, died yesterday. He was 77. For many years at…
Unmasked police are a public health hazard
Screenshots from a video recorded of Winnipeg Police Patrol Sergeant Kevin Smith, showing him issuing a ticket at close distance without a face mask despite provincial public health orders. In…
Episode 69: Municipal Politics from Lucy the Elephant to 911 dispatch
Dani Paradis and Chris Henderson join the Daveberta Podcast for a deep dive into municipal politics and a look ahead at the October 2021 elections in Edmonton. What issues will…
The University of Toronto Mississauga is making students pay for services that are closed.
With the university caring more about its reputation and money rather than its students, we are writing this article as a demand for help from external media and external voices…
It’s been one of those weeks
This has been one of those weeks, full of highs and lows, birthdays (yay) and covid tests (boo). The Soapbox family came through it all just fine, but as a…
very sad news: boomer cannot stay
My heart is heavy. My heart is broken. Boomer cannot stay with us. We can’t even foster him while we search for his forever home. One of our dogs is…
A primer on supportive housing and Housing First
I’ve written a 900-word primer on supportive housing and Housing First. Here’s the link to the English-language version: https://nickfalvo.ca/a-primer-on-supportive-housing-and-housing-first/ Here’s the link to the French-language version: https://nickfalvo.ca/une-introduction-au-logement-supervise-et-le-logement-dabord/
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Damian Carrington reports on Antonio Gutierres’ needed message that we can’t afford to keep waging war on our natural environment. And Bruce…
Coming in Hot
Snow Geese – Richmond, BC
Review: The Ultimate Pasta Machine Cookbook
The Ultimate Pasta Machine Cookbook: 100 Recipes for Every Kind of Amazing Pasta Your Pasta Maker Can Make, by Lucy Vaserfirer, Paperback, 208 pages, Published in 2020 by Harvard Common…
Keeping Democracy Alive
The current chaos in the Republican Party provides a teachable moment for all democracies. Robin Sears writes: No sustainable democracy is possible with one dominant party and one crippled or…
The answer to Justin’s prayer.
Just started reading Linda McQuaig’s 2019 book; The Sport & Prey of Capitalists. I have always been a fan of Linda’s. We might lean towards different parties but we seem…
No, Conservatives, Texas Power Grid Collapse Wasn’t Because Of Wind Turbine Failures
Texas had a record breaking cold snap this past week as a result of the Jet Stream slumping way south of where it normally sits, and allowing a huge mass…
Saturday Photo: Waiting for a Bike Ride…
Or maybe it’s winter storage for bikes! Days are getting longer, this winter of our discontent will be over sometime….
Erin O’Toole and the Horror of the Ghastly Gallant
As I'm sure you all know by now, Erin O'Toole is desperately trying to fool Canadians into believing that he's really a nice guy. And that because he expelled the…
Rex Murphy’s poor argument about the Tragedy in Texas made me write this post
“In reality, failures in natural gas, coal and nuclear energy systems were responsible for nearly twice as many outages as frozen wind turbines and solar panels, the Electric Reliability Council…