Covid Journal, Oct 28, 2021
The appointment of Guilbeault to the Environment portfolio is necessary, but will it be enough? The post Covid Journal, Oct 28, 2021 first appeared on Excited Delirium.
October 2021
How adults – yes, that’s you – have taken over Halloween (formerly known as Hallowe’en)
October is the scariest month of the year, and not just because summer is dead and we’re just waiting for winter’s icy, months-long grip. It’s the month of Halloween, or,…
Fighting for transit in a world on fire
Vincent Puhakka, a supporter of the transit advocacy group TTCriders, canvassing commuters at Warden Station, calling for better funding of the TTC. Photo by Justin Greaves/Metroland. Canadian leaders have been…
Legal Tweet of the Day: October 28, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario lawyers protest new Legal Aid ‘guilty plea certificates’ via @TorontoStar – 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. – Bruce Arthur calls out Doug Ford for choosing (like other conservative premiers) to prioritize the “freedom” of uninformed anti-vaxxers to endanger everybody…
Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t. Andrew Weaver’s Truth.
When it comes to the climate emergency and greenhouse gas emissions, truth can be hard to find. U. Vic. climate scientist and former head of the B.C. Green Party, Andrew…
This week’s Sparky: back from, um, holidays
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His True Colours
No matter what Doug Ford says, if you listen carefully, you can hear his true colours. Bruce Arthur writes: It’s hard to imagine how many more ways Ontario can say…
COP26 Starts Soon, We Need to Capture Carbon Now
A company in Iceland captures carbon right out of the air and injects into the earth, the operation is a working proof that we can take carbon out of thin…
Sorry, Justin Trudeau: There is no equivalence between the extreme right and the extreme left
A billboard featuring the portrait of People’s Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier and its message “Say NO to Mass Immigration” in Toronto, August 25, 2019. Photo from Twitter.…
Why not shoot the messengers?
Did you hear that they are creating a social media channel just for Donald Trump? That will teach those wimps at Twitter who dared to banish him. It will make…
UCP Government imploding? Sexual harassment scandal hits Premier’s Office hours after supposed referendum victory
Premier Jason Kenney had less than 24 hours to savour his dubious victory in Alberta’s anti-equalization referendum before a serious scandal involving accusations of sexual-harassment, heavy drinking in the office,…
World’s top movie not what you might think
It may come as a surprise to Canadian film fans, but the top box office movie in 2021 is not James Bond’s No Time to Die or the legendary sci-fi…
Vaccine mandates and passports are ethically and morally wrong and their logic just doesn’t jive
I’ve seen 2 major reasons for why Canadians are largely okay with the idea of coercion of the population through vaccine passports, and vaccine mandates. These reasons however conflict with…
Hey, Isn’t This the Same Guy Who Sold Us Into Neoliberal Servitude?
It’s easy to remember Brian Mulroney for his environmentalism, his principled stand against Apartheid South Africa, the fight against acid rain and restoring the ozone layer. That has to be…
Justin Trudeau’s Amazing Climate Change Cabinet
Justin Trudeau walked up the drive way of Rideau Hall yesterday, with his wife and a big umbrella, looking very calm and confident. The Cons, the NDP, and the monkey…
Latest Sun Media hit: go to Hell, Canada
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Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Yasmine Ghania interviews Nazeem Muhajarine about the Saskatchewan Party’s choice to produce misleadingly low COVID-19 case numbers by stifling testing. And Kelly Provost…
Live Longer by Lathering Less
Showering too much is a problem that too many people have, but if you do like to over-shower you should stop using shampoo. Turns out that a popular and frequently…
Nobody stops me from putting my stuff up anymore
Warren wall. I go through a lot of blue. pic.twitter.com/2OCSLwAMIS — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 27, 2021 The post Nobody stops me from putting my stuff up anymore first appeared…