Legal Tweet of the Day: October 21, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Mark Zuckerberg to Be Added to Facebook Privacy Suit via @nytimes – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
October 2021
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rod Nickel offers an international view of Saskatchewan’s spiraling COVID-19 crisis, even as Scott Moe clings to his delusional minimization of the…
Their True Colours
Conservatives are arguing against a vaccine mandate for members of Parliament. Susan Delacourt writes: The federal Conservatives have picked a strange time to abandon populism. Who would have thought that…
Glenfiddich Whisks Whisky Waste into Fuel
The whisky distiller Glenfiddich has converted its fleet of trucks to be powered by waste products from making whisky. It’s a classic bio waste to bio gas setup. The trucks…
A Stomping Mouse.
No doubt you are aware of the stalking horse that hides the intentions of another politician. You might not be as familiar with the stomping mouse. The stomping mouse is…
After another week of political disasters, UCP prepares to release Allan Report on ‘anti-Alberta’ environmental campaigns
Has the leadership of the United Conservative Party grown so disconnected from reality it imagines the release of the report of the so-called “public inquiry into anti-Alberta energy campaigns” will…
Why can’t conservatives win the mayoralties of Alberta’s major cities?
Alberta’s reputation as a bastion of conservatism has been belied once again by the recent municipal elections. Both Calgary and Edmonton, which together make up over half the province’s population,…
My thought for the day
Dear politicians of all stripes: It’s a pandemic. It’s deadly. It’s a disaster on a planetary scale. The things you ask us mortals to do – vaccinations, masking, social distancing…
Killing the KED is the Low-Hanging Fruit for Fiscal and Environmental Sustainability in Greater Sudbury
I have been a part of several recent online discussions on the subject of the costs of urban sprawl to taxpayers. I've seen this come up in response to recent…
Killing the KED is the Low-Hanging Fruit for Fiscal and Environmental Sustainability in Greater Sudbury
I have been a part of several recent online discussions on the subject of the costs of urban sprawl to taxpayers. I've seen this come up in response to recent…
Killing the KED is the Low-Hanging Fruit for Fiscal and Environmental Sustainability in Greater Sudbury
I have been a part of several recent online discussions on the subject of the costs of urban sprawl to taxpayers. I’ve seen this come up in response to recent…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Carol Off interviews Andre Picard about the cultural factors and policy choices that have led to an avoidable fourth wave of COVID-19 in…
The West May Get the Wildfires but the East Gets the Smoke
By now we’re all familiar with the massive wildfires that have become a recurring disaster along the Pacific from Mexico to Alaska. This summer we saw the town of Lytton,…
A Small Diet Change Makes a Big Difference
Absolutely no one is shocked by new research that concludes beef is the worst thing to eat. If we’re going to feed billions of people on the planet while also…
The Road to Glasgow – 10 Days and Counting
COP26 opens in Glasgow on October 31. The real story, however, may lie in what happens over the next ten days. That’s when we’ll see how the big players align…
Legal Tweet of the Day: October 20, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Nikolas Cruz pleads guilty to murder charges for Parkland high school massacre via @CNN – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
The Real Joe Manchin
Ever resistant to climate change mitigation measures, ‘Democrat’ Joe Manchin, has succeeded in scuttling most of Joe Biden’s ambitious plans for the environment. It now appears Biden will reduce his…
Not The 1970’s
Inflation is on the rise. Some fear that we are about to return to the 1970s. Edward Berkowitz writes that we’re not going there: There appear to be some similarities…
Federal pandemic assistance on the chopping block—another way to ‘discipline’ workers
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a speech to G7 leaders at the international summit in Cornwall, England, June 13, 2021. Photo from Twitter. The Trudeau government’s willingness to curtail Employment…
A 13-city scan of homelessness planning
I’ve just written a 13-city scan of homelessness planning across Canada. A summary of the report is available here: https://nickfalvo.ca/innovation-in-homelessness-system-planning-a-scan-of-13-canadian-cities/