As the cow farts.
To be honest, this little story is more about burps than farts. Farts are more amusing. It is about the ability of both milk and beef cattle to produce large…
May 2021
Federal budget ignores Canada’s ongoing genocide against Indigenous peoples
Mural artist Tom Andrich’s public display in honour of murdered and missing indigenous women, located on the Portage Avenue and Empress Street overpass in Winnipeg. Photo courtesy UM Today. Canada…
Jason Kenney edges closer to blaming Albertans for the province’s COVID-19 predicament
Considering his performance at yesterday’s COVID-19 briefing, it seems Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is working himself up to a look-in-the-mirror moment. In Canadian politics, that’s not something that involves looking…
The 2021 federal budget
I’ve written a ‘top 10’ overview of the recent federal budget. The link to the post is available here: https://nickfalvo.ca/ten-things-to-know-about-canadas-2021-federal-budget/
What Next? Perhaps "Cave Syndrome".
Here’s something no vaccine can fix – cave syndrome. After a year in isolation, many people who have developed an intimate understanding of what it means to socially isolate are…
Stephen Harper’s Monstrous Anniversary
I've been so busy recently that I somehow forgot that it has now been ten years since one of the worst nights of my life. The night when Stephen Harper…
Well, When You Put It That Way, Yeah, He’s a Dick
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens is no bleeding heart leftie but I was touched by his description of Texas senator Ted Cruz in today’s column with Gail Collins, to…
Legally Adulting Online – May 27, 2021
Join Simran Bakshi and Paul Adam on May 27th at 7:00 pm for another #LegallyAdultingOnline via Zoom and Facebook Live. It will be a night of virtual interactive discussion of…
The Cancer Diaries, Part 28
This month marks a year since my biopsy that indicated I had an aggressive form of prostate cancer. It’s been quite a year for me, easily the most stressful and…
Death of an elm
The idea that trees have personalities may be offensive to science, but sometimes they just do. Such is the massive elm that sits in the middle of a Calgary Stampede…
PEF Student Essay Contest Deadline Extended to May 11
To allow the maximum number of quality student essays to join the already promising submissions we have received, PEF is extending the deadline for our 2021 PEF Student Essay Contest…
Chomsky: Corporate Fascism Clarified
Exactly as I said this spring, in an essay titled, Sinking All Ships (Except Our Own), Chomsky is saying, as well, what by now should be obvious to all: the…
Defending the left case against basic income
A MakePovertyHistory march attended by an estimated 200,000 people before a G8 Summit in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2, 2005. Photo by Bruno Vincent. Canadian Dimension recently ran two important contributions…
Canada’s Secret Weapon in Fighting Climate Change: Great Trade Unions
U.S. President Joe Biden has been pushing the envelope in bringing America back into the Paris Accord process, setting more ambitious targets for reducing U.S. emissions, and committing to very…
The Argument for White Supremacy
It seems that the main argument of the white supremacists is that white western European countries would not have conquered the world if they were not superior societies. Of course…
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 3, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay: Customer records 3 Bell reps offering same deal, then is told he can’t have it via CBC News. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. A Progressive Gets His Due.
It’s about time the record was set straight. Jimmy Carter was the most prescient, progressive president the United States of America never deserved. The Guardian reporter was trying to track…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Emma Paling discusses the reasons why repeated warnings about Canada’s third wave of the coronavirus went largely unanswered. And Rachel Bergen reports on…
Culling the Herd?
Lead story in this morning’s New York Times. Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ is Unlikely in the U.S. Yes, you can lead a horse to Pfizer but… Early in the pandemic, when…
Talking the Latest on COVID-19 Measures & the Federal Governments Handling of Sexual Assault Allegations in the Canadian Forces 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 Will Steward. We discussed the latest discussions around COVID, around public…