Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Alejandro Jadad studies the social murder traceable to politicians’ flawed responses to COVID-19 and other known causes of sickness and death, while Tara…
December 2021
It’s Good News, In a Way
The human population is set to decline – in a few decades. It’s hard not to believe that. On the way, however, we’ll grow and peak at around 9.7 billion…
Legal Tweet of the Day: December 10, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay:Quebec removed a teacher from class over her hijab. MPs are trying to walk a fine line in response via @TorontoStar – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
China in the world
Xi Jinping visits a housing project near Luanda, the capital of Angola, constructed by a Chinese company, November 2010. Photo courtesy Xinhua News Agency. China’s position in the world system…
Utterly Toothless
Given the damning report by the auditor general that the Public Heath Agency of Canada did a profoundly incompetent job of tracking travellers assigned to quarantine hotels earlier this year,…
take a social media human rights challenge: write for rights 2021 #w4r21
Advanced planning is no match for the calendar! Despite my early preparation, December 10 — Human Rights Day — still caught me off-guard. I haven’t reviewed any cases or set…
We Lack The Will
David Suzuki writes that episodes of mass extinction are nothing new: The fossil record indicates five mass extinction episodes have occurred, defined by disappearance of more than 75 per cent…
Inside Laurentian University’s demise
In April 2021, Laurentian University announced plans to cut 58 undergraduate and 11 graduate programs and lay off more than 120 faculty. As Ron Srigley writes, this move signaled the…
Trump, Trust and Truth.
If wife Melanie doesn’t poison his late-night cheeseburgers first, Donald Trump is planning his return to the U.S. presidency in 2024. He already has a large chunk of U.S. voters…
Does Kenney understand Alberta?
A recent survey, conducted by Maru Public Opinion and Janet Brown Opinion Research, took a reading of Canadians’ views of Alberta. The poll measured the reaction to a number of…
The Reichstag Fire of the War on Christmas?
The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Let ‘Er Rip! Alberta Opens the Taps.
Make hay while the sun shines. UCP Energy Minister Sonya Savage says the province has not set production limits on the oil industry since December of 2020. She said the…
Inaccurate carbon accounting
Calling bioenergy “carbon-neutral” suggests that emissions are instantaneously offset, when in reality it can take trees decades to absorb all the carbon emitted by burning wood, say critics…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bruce Arthur writes about the need for governments’ responses to COVID to adapt to the increased risk posed by the Omicron variant.…
Yet More Disrespect From Madigan
Earlier this year, I wrote about how Councillor Bob “Lapdog” Madigan had behaved in a churlish, misogynistic manner towards female members of council during council meetings, first in March, 2021,…
Legal Tweet of the Day: December 9, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Justin Trudeau announces diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics via @TorontoStar – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Collingwood’s “Broken Windows”
If I sometimes seem to complain in a picayune manner, harping on the same signs of scruffiness and neglect that we see more often around town these days, there’s a…
Navigating the housing crisis with poverty wages: What hope for young Canadians?
We need to change course and start thinking of housing as a human right. Photo by Louis Tricot/Unsplash. For the last fifteen years, young people in Canada have been struggling…
Follow The Money
We’re beginning to get some idea where the money to finance the Trump insurrection came from. The Washington Post reports: Eight days before the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, a…
COVID and Homelessness: Ten things to know
I was recently invited by the The Economics Society of Northern Alberta to speak at their 2022 Outlook Conference about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on homelessness. Here’s an…