On unhealthy bias
Shorter Murray Mandryk: It’s important that we have compassion for everybody’s mental health concerns regardless of politics. And by that, I of course mean allowing partisan operatives from only one…
May 2021
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Grace Blakeley discusses how corporate handouts represent a major contributor to the concentration of wealth by the richest few. And CNN reports on…
Nevada to Ban Lawns
Lawns are the manifestation of human environmental hubris, and it’s hurting all of us. Regular readers of Things Are Good know that lawns are bad for a myriad of reasons…
Québec Solidaire tightens party discipline with a view to election
At Québec Solidaire’s recent National Council meeting, controversy broiled over the leadership’s proposal to censure an organized group within the party, the Collectif antiraciste décolonial. Photo courtesy Québec Solidaire/Twitter. Québec…
Who Will Drive Social Change?
Duncan Cameron writes that, historically, the working class has driven social change. But that trend has been reversed: Today while the world faces growing inequalities, environmental destruction, and rapid climate…
As Important as Clean Drinking Water? Part 2
Remember last December, when the town’s CAO announced that the Saunderson Vindictive Judicial Inquiry (aka the SVJI) was “equivalent with the top priorities we have, like providing clean drinking water”?…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates
What is an Executor? Your Executor is responsible for distributing the assets and properties of your Estate to your heirs. Who to choose as your Executor: Responsible Organized Good Communicator…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats amid chaos.
Unpublished Ottawa: I debate #C10 with others!
@kinsellawarren, @timothydenton and Daniel Bernhard from @friendscb will be our expert panelists this Tuesday evening on #UnpublishedTV with host @EdHandMedia, as we dig into Bill C-10 and its impact on…
Covid Journal, May 24, 2021
What’s your take on populist government responses to Covid compared to those that are, shall we say, progressive and focused on the many? I think Covid is a brutal but…
Suzanne Simard, Amy Adams, Hollywood, And The Six Mountains Forest
Originally published by ‘Where Do We Stand’ Suzanne Simard A few weeks after the poaching of trees in the Six Mountains Community Forest became national news, once again Canadians are…
“Create your free account.”
Why would that message pop up on your computer? You know, and I know, there is no such thing as free! It little matters whether the message was from Microsoft,…
A Twitterer’s tale: Kenney scores an own goal with tweet that ‘reads like a Beaverton headline’
At 4:02 o’clock on the afternoon of Sunday, May 23, 2021, somebody pressed the “tweet” button on Jason Kenney’s Twitter account, sending an enigmatic message about the government’s response to…
Three Years of Privacy Thanks to the GDPR
Three years ago today the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enacted in the EU to protect you from morally questionable digital surveillance, and trust me, we’re all better off…
For Canadian taxpayers, why is Israel still a charity case?
Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through London and other British cities to protest against Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, May 22, 2021. Photo by Alisdare Hickson/Flickr. Over the…
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 25, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay: GordonSondland, key impeachment witness sues Pompeo over $1.8 million in unpaid legalfees via CNN – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
This is a massive scandal
Just unbelievable. Thread. Thread 1/6 Feds @PrivyCouncilCA conceal 992,000 records on pandemic mismanagement, Commons committee told. “Who in gov’t is responsible?” https://t.co/wdS0SQ7xI7 @DonDavies @Steve_B_Lucas @GovCanHealth @CanadianPM @PattyHajdu #cdnpoli So far,…
Erin O’Toole and his Foul Foreign Collaborators
From the moment Erin O'Toole seized control of the Conservative party, I have watched his attack ads with a growing sense of horror, and revulsion. Horror because of the way…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Robert Reich offers some lessons we need to draw from the coronavirus pandemic – including the recognition that while billionaires won’t save…