Gotcha
Here is Bell‘s lead lobbyist and CEO in a secret meeting with Ian Scott, the head of the CRTC. Scott has had more than 75 such meetings with Bell, Rogers…
June 2021
About That Critical Thinking Thing
Now that the internet has made everybody experts on everything, just a small, sobering reminder: expertise and critical thinking are not things you readily acquire. Recommend this Post
Simran Bakshi on Family Law: Unconscionable Agreements vs. Unconscionable Result: When may a Domestic Contract be Set Aside
While domestic agreements are intended to provide a degree of certainty as to the parties expectations in the event of a separation, provisions waiving support may not be enforceable if…
McKenna Retires
Catherine McKenna won’t be running in the next federal election. Susan Delacourt writes that after the abuse she has endured, her decision is not surprising: The woman who made her…
Urban Ecology Cools Building, Cities, and Helps Biodiversity
Modern cities are full of biodiversity, you just need to know where to look .Urban ecology is a relatively new field of study that examines how isolated urban green infrastructure…
When corporate interests trump the human right to clean drinking water
Manitoba has a very large untapped deposit of high grade silica, a type of sand frequently used to prop open underground fractures that release trapped oil and gas. But mining…
#TaxTheChurch
A $28.5 million Catholic church is built while ‘there’s no money’ for a $25 million settlement for First Nations people in Saskatchewan. The time has come to take away what…
Conservative Confusion Continues.
Not only does federal conservative leader Erin O’Toole have a problem but he is part of the problem. I like to think of it as Erin O’Toole meets the Three…
Lytton, B.C. Melts. Satan Might Not Live There But Some Days It’s Hard to Tell.
Two all-time records set on consecutive days. Take the sea-to-sky highway to Whistler then on to Pemberton, the sometimes challenging Duffey Lake road, Lillooet and then Hwy 12 south to…
Why post-Brexit, post-Imperial Britain should build Yachty McYachtface, and build it now!
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s big idea to spend hundreds of millions of pounds building a new royal yacht to serve as a floating trade show venue is an excellent project…
On Canada Day and cognitive dissonance
F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Lauren Pelley surveys the latest on COVID-19 – including the reality that viral variants and different affected populations are resulting in it presenting…
Talking Infrastructure Minister Not Running in #Elxn44 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 sudden decision of Infrastructure Minister Catherine…
Pennsylvania prisoners start hunger strike against isolation practices
Originally published at Perilous Chronicle. June 25, 2021 By Lena Mercer, Perilous Chronicle On June 23, 20-30 prisoners at SCI Phoenix, a 3,800 bed state prison facility near Philadelphia, began…
Ottawa: still full of shit
Certain members of the Press Gallery rightly decry how few women go into politics. And then, when one of the most senior elected female MPs says she’s leaving, all the…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 28, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay: Her employer owes her $28,000. She’s waited for a year and a half — while being forced into the shelter system to survive via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/36c9wsB – Garry J.…
NEW BOOK by Torkil Lauesen—Riding the Wave: Sweden’s Integration into the Imperialist World System
“In general, the Scandinavian countries did not have the necessary military power and administrative capacity to establish and operate their own colonies. They had to ride the wave of the…
Connectivism at the Moment
Responding to an email enquiry – what is your opinion/ vision regarding the application of the CONNECTIVISM theory at present ? I see it being widely applied both online and…
Talking Minister Bennett’s Texts with Kristy Cameron
On Thursday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now”. We talked about Crown/Indigenous Relationships Minister Bennett’s text to MP Jody Wilson-Raybould, why it was so offensive and hurtful, why…
But Is There A Will?
I was reading Owen’s blog yesterday, in which he cites Robin Sears’ view that, as Britain did during WW11, Canada needs to build back better post-pandemic. I am a skeptic…