Suzuki apologizes, Kenney rants
David Suzuki recently made some rash comments about oil pipelines, specifically “There are going to be pipelines blown up if our leaders don’t pay attention to what’s going on.” Being…
November 2021
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats at rest.
Conversion Therapy and Affirmative Therapy
Now that the LPC government has tabled Bill C-4, it's probably a good time to examine the two terms that are inevitably going to be argued about the most with…
Making The Torture Of LGBT Kids Criminal. At Last.
On any given day thousands of young people call the streets of Canada home. And about twenty to thirty percent of them are LGBT kids. Thrown into the street by…
End times in British Columbia
It must seem like Armageddon has arrived on Canada’s west coast. After last week’s flooding and landslides, the province is now facing more heavy weather. If you can help, donate…
Gone To Glory
Somehow, my heart, which should be heavy, feels gratitude at the news that this crazed evangelical, who urged his followers not to get vaccinated, is no longer with us. Daystar…
Critic of UCP COVID response has Twitter account suspended after complaining fake account used his name and image
IMPORTANT NOTE: I’m pleased to report Dr. Joe Vipond’s Twitter account was restored to him 21 minutes after this post was published. I’m not taking credit. I rather imagine it…
Good news, for a change
A lot of my readers are anxious about Omicron. Some are anxious enough that they feel I’ve been focusing too much on Omicron bad news. So, here’s some good news.…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Niels-Jakob Hansen and Rui Mano study the effect of mask mandates in saving tens of thousands of lives in the U.S. alone…
What Are They Playing At?
It’s new fighter time for the RCAF. There were three contenders short-listed: the latest F-18, the SAAB Gripen and Lockheed’s F-35. The F-18 was rejected. Apparently it doesn’t meet the…
LegalTweetoftheDay: November 30, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Judge Temporarily Blocks Vaccine Mandate for Health Workers in 10 States via @nytimes – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Opinion: The machine is always right in Alberta’s municipal elections — and that’s wrong
Originally published in the Calgary Herald Opinion section on November 30, 2021. The day after Calgary’s municipal elections, the results said I lost Ward 4 by 52 votes. With it…
No Vaccine, No Airplane Ride.
As of today you’ll need proof of vaccination to board a train or jetliner in Canada. Perhaps spurred on by the Omicron variant, Ottawa has slammed shut the door to…
A Ray of Hope?
The Fraser Valley could receive another 50 mm of rain today but the mayor of Abbotsford seems confident his city is ready for it. Henry Braun told CBC that repairs…
See Through Solar Panels
The future is powered by renewables, and the more sources of electricity we have the more resilient our power grid will be. Researches at Michigan State University have created a…
The Bundestag teaches little.
It came as a surprise the other day when the Toronto Star’s opinion writer for the new democratic party, Robin Sears, lauded the German government’s electoral system. While the German…
Touting it as a winner, UCP picks hydroponic pea shoot producer for optimistic jobs announcement
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Alberta’s United Conservative Government has been reduced to doing what market fundamentalists like Jason Kenney usually vow they’ll never contemplate: picking winners and…
American Glory
I have just read a report that is stunning. Indeed, it’s the only believeable report on the murder of John F. Kennedy that makes sense. The usual story is that…
Unpublished TV hit: Parliament is back. Yawn.
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