Home Water Heaters can Reduce Electricity Production
Across North America homes have massive tanks of hot water regardless of the outside temperature or other concerns. The energy cost to heat all this water is immense and not…
July 2021
Harvesting the Suckers
Donald Trump has launched a lawsuit against Facebook, Google, and Twitter. Paul Waldman writes: His complaint against Facebook — presumably prepared by actual lawyers, hard as that may be to…
A Question of Trust.
Journalists report on our politicians all the time. They think they can judge them best. They kid themselves. There is too much that they do not say about our MPs,…
PM Justin Trudeau, boyish, beardless and in campaign mode, shows up to bestow $1.5B on Calgary Green Line LRT
Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, boyish and freshly beardless as if a summer election is blowin’ in the wind, showed up in Alberta yesterday to bestow $1.5 billion in federal…
Happy Anniversary
A Happy 75th Anniversary to Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. What wonderful lives they’ve led. At 96 and 93 respectively they share the same fear – the other’s death.
It’s Not Just the Heat, It’s Also the Humidity
To steal a line from Jaws, “we’re going to need a bigger boat.” A study published in Nature Communications finds that mankind is at least partly responsible for severe precipitation…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Statistics Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force examines new data as to the spread of the coronavirus prior to the third wave – with…
They Work – Canadian Study Shows All Major Vaccines Effective Against Delta
The Delta variant of the Covid-19 virus, generally thought to be far more transmissible, is apparently no match for the three vaccines being administered in Canada; Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZenica.…
On One Hand. Covid 19 and "Epidemiological Stupidity"
The World Health Organization has a warning for governments eager to lift Covid-19 lockdowns. Getting it wrong is epidemiological stupidity. The WHO head of emergencies, Mike Ryan, says premature lifting…
In Case You Didn’t Notice
Fire the confetti cannons. June was the hottest June on record. Not just by a little. By a bunch. North America endured the hottest June on record last month, according…
Eating on the Hill: A&W’s not so hot Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich
The newest chicken craze is Nashville Hot Chicken, and A&W is out of the gates early with the first fast food version, available now for a limited time: the A&W…
Legal Tweet of the Day: July 7, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay:Trump is going to sue Twitter and Facebook for banning him: NYT’s Haberman via The Raw Story Read more: https://bit.ly/WiseLawLegalTweet07072021 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
Join us at our next Legally Adulting Online on July 22nd at 7 pm
Highlights from our last #LegallyAdultingOnline: Paul Adam discusses when you should make a will and Simran Bakshi considers whether employers can require employees to be vaccinated. Join us via Zoom…
in which my plus-size clothing works for me one last time
I recently lost a lot of weight* and am selling all my plus-size clothing. Over the years I have donated many items and sold many others. Whether to donate or…
Our Next Governor General
Mary Simon will be our next Governor-General. She has been considered for the job ever since David Johnston got the job in 2010. It’s been a long wait. But, Susan…
Explaining Degrowth and Why it Matters
The way the economy runs leads to environmental destruction and it doesn’t have to be that way. The industrial revolution accelerated consumption of non-renewable resources and governments allowed corporations to…
We’ve heard this song before!
Of all the stupid announcements that are never going to happen, Omar Alghabra made it the other day. It might just be the purview of federal transportation ministers, but to…
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In what looks like a classic case of bargaining in bad faith, UCP Government demands additional 3% pay cut from more than 30,000 nurses
Alberta Health Services returned to the bargaining table with Alberta’s more than 30,000 public sector registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses yesterday for the first time since March 2020 with…