We’re All in Deep Scheisse
If the Republicans regain control of the Senate and/or the House in next year’s mid-terms or Trump reclaims the White House in 2024, the world is in deep scheisse. A…
November 2021
You Gotta Love It. Gary Mason Takes Scott Moe to the Woodshed
Saskatchewan premier, Scott Moe, has always struck me as – what’s the word I’m looking for? – a buffoon. It makes me wonder what sort of glue Saskatchewan voters are…
Things Won’t Change Before We Scream "Uncle"
I just read Gwynne Dyer’s preview of the COP 26 climate summit published on October 31 but written a few days earlier. Dyer panned the summit, concluding that beyond the…
More supportive housing for semi-independent seniors
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives asked me for a ‘big idea.’ I wrote about the need for more supportive housing for semi-independent seniors. Here’s my submission: https://nickfalvo.ca/more-supportive-housing-for-semi-independent-seniors/
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 12, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Judge is suspended for jailing spectator after she refused drug test via @ABAJournal – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Is Our Planet Overpopulated?
Is our planet overpopulated? The answer is plainly and resoundingly “yes.” It’s not the fact of overpopulation that’s contentious. It’s more a problem of how that fact is exploited, spun.…
Change Of Pace Friday
A former colleague of my sent me this. I guess it has been around for a while, but it is new to me, and seems relevant given our current spate…
Utter Disrespect for Local Media and Citizens
Recently, CollingwoodToday ran a six-part series asking all members of council to express — without editing or Berman’s censorship “fact-checking” — their thoughts on what they had done on council,…
Sleeping With An Elephant
Donald Trump has left the White House. But that doesn’t mean that the relationship between the United States and Canada is all sweetness and light. Campbell Clark writes: The supposed…
How the Canadian military is fueling the climate crisis
Members of the Canadian Armed Forces during an operation in Afghanistan. The photo has been digitally altered for operational security reasons. Photo courtesy the Canadian Armed Forces website. The following…
Mark Bourrie, Andre Marin, Maxime Bernier and Wikipedia
My Wikipedia page has had one editor above all – Mark Bourrie, the lawyer who led Maxime Bernier to a big loss this week. So, here at paragraphs 94 to…
Doug’s Drive to Damnation.
Like highways to hell, they are not roads that Ontario premier Doug Ford should take. Doug Ford lacks the political smarts, the political acceptance or a party eager to take…
Brian Jean, the Bonnie Prince Charlie of the Alberta conservative movement, takes up residence in Jason Kenney’s head
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney insists his former leadership rival Brian Jean’s planned palace coup to snatch away the crown of the United Conservative Party isn’t about to distract him from…
Are the Con Oil Pimps Trying To Destroy Canada?
I have never had much respect for Scott Moe, the brutish slack jawed Premier of Saskatchewan. I have always considered him more of an American politician than a Canadian one,…
Should Leftists and Progressives trust Pfizer and Big Pharma?
The Left has always had a strong tradition of emphasizing the importance of science and empirical understanding of the world. Remember that foundational socialists such as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Karl Marx,…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Helen Ward et al. discuss the work that needs to be done to respond to long COVID on a global scale, while…
Are you a Nikiforuk fan? Check this out.
Andrew Nikiforuk will be giving an address, “Energy Dead-Ends: Green Lies, Climate Change and Chaotic Transitions,” at the University of Victoria on Wednesday, November 17th, from 2 to 3:15 p.m.,…
A Picture to Sum Up COP 26
From The Guardian. There, don’t you feel better? The Guardian spoke with six negotiators working on the final statement. Their enthusiasm seems a bit underwhelming. #1 The world needs a…
The neglected toll of violence against health care workers
Photo courtesy Gustoimages/Science Photo Library. The following is an excerpt from Code White: Sounding the Alarm on Violence against Health Care Workers by Margaret M. Keith and James T. Brophy,…
I Remember. Too Well.
Since it’s Remembrance Day, here’s a photo of my dad – sans a few parts, well stitched together, taken outside an army hospital in England. He’s chomping on a cigar,…