Arms Race Update – F-35 Continues to Flounder
It first flew in 2006. After 15 years you might think the manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, would have the bugs worked out. Not so much. The F-35 has always been short…
October 2021
A VERY UNHAPPY BLOG
I’m really astonished by the Canadian (and American) contempt for the Chinese – and for the popular belief that the Chinese live in poverty and filth – and with no…
Skyler Williams is a political prisoner
Skyler Williams, centre, spokesperson for 1492 Land Back Lane. Photo from Twitter. On September 16, a press conference was held outside of Toronto Mayor John Tory’s Yorkville condo building near…
Legal Tweet of the Day: October 14, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Canada’s vaccine passport for travellers expected ‘within weeks’ via @TorontoStar https:// – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Amativa Banerjee writes about the cognitive dissonance involved in living through the COVID-19 pandemic. And Ian Sample reports on scientists’ recognition that…
Time to Get Tough with China?
In some provinces you can’t go into bars or restaurants without a vaccine “passport,” proof that you have received two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. Next month Canadians will be…
A response to Evan Solomon’s hit job on ‘white man’ Jim Harris
Former Green Party leader Jim Harris. Still image courtesy CTV News. It was quite the performance. CTV Power Play host Evan Solomon’s response to former Green Party leader Jim Harris…
Be Careful What You Wish For
Now that the U.S. has announced its land borders will be open to vaccinated Canadians sometime in November, many, especially snowbirds, are exultant. There are, however, numerous reasons to temper…
TWO NEW FREE COURSES – ONLINE AND JUST FOR CAREGIVERS
When our son Nicholas was two, he had an operation to insert a feeding tube in his tummy. It was a tough decision made a little easier by the fact…
The Same Path?
Over the last two weeks, Ontario’s airwaves have been flooded with political attack ads. Bob Hepburn writes: At breakfast early last week I was appalled to hear a political attack…
Sunk costs sinking
BC government is reluctant to reveal information about BC Hydro’s Site C project but news that does emerge is useful to knowledgeable analysts…
Doing a Dance with Doug.
Ontario premier Doug Ford isn’t much of a politician but whomever is advising him on the day care file isn’t either. The feds are offering Ontario $10 billion to get…
How low can Jason Kenney go? This week’s poll, same as last week’s poll, puts him at 22%
How low can he go? It’s probably more than coincidence that the second poll in just over a week has placed Alberta Premier Jason Kenney at an approval rate of…
My latest: ten reasons to give political thanks
The election is over, Thanksgiving is over. What better time, then, to give thanks about what happened, and what didn’t, in the 2021 federal general election? And, yes, sure: Justin…
Kudos to David Card and the minimum wage
Good news from the world of the dismal science. A Canadian boy, David Card, has won a share of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics. Nice to see one of…
Organizing for prison abolition and racial justice on the Canadian Prairies
Stony Mountain Institution, a federal prison located about 25 kilometres north of Winnipeg. Indigenous men make up 65 percent of the inmate population. Photo courtesy Winnipeg Love Hate. The Canadian…
It’s "Adapt or Die." What we’ll pay for ignoring climate adaptation.
I wonder if, in decades to come, we’ll see the Covid pandemic as a crisis that kept us from responding to the climate emergency. It’s clear now that, when it…
A Meme For The Times
This particular meme has been around for awhile now. If you haven’t seen it, I think you will agree that it is particularly germane to the times in which we…
He’s Back. Well, That Was Quick.
William Shatner has successfully traveled from Earth to the edge of space and back in about the same time he takes for his morning bathroom break. At 90 he goes…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – David Fickling responds to the attempt by petropoliticians to blame high gas prices on limited climate action rather than the vagaries of commodity…