The Evidence Suggests Otherwise
Islamophobia is on the rise in Canada. Michael Harris writes: The problem is growing. As reported by the CBC’s Elizabeth Thompson, a soon-to-be released report has found that online activity…
2021
Why Are Council’s Conflicts of Interest Being Ignored?
While local media focuses on our revenge-obsessed council’s myopic intent to punish people who committed no crimes, merely thwarted their Great Leader’s personal ambitions in 2012, they blithely overlook the…
Montaigne on Ice Cream
No, Michel de Montaigne did not write about ice cream. I just used his name to entice you into this musing. But given the wide variety of topics he did write…
Explanations for BC Gov’t wasting billions of dollars
Kurzweil and others have argued that people find this pace of change almost impossible to grasp, because it is human nature to perceive rates of progress as linear, not exponential……
A passport to Freedom.
It is called a laissez passer. It is similar to a passport but identifies the role of the individual at the United Nations or one of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs)…
family and friends reunion road trip: day two: everett, washington to talent, oregon
I am happy to report that today was far less eventful. The most important thing was to get on the road early. We know from past experience (our first trip…
Musical interlude
Rhye – The Fall
June 23: I’m sorry. I didn’t see the depth our worship of the greedy.
This will be brief. And it’s about change in the western world that I should have looked at much more quickly. Capitalism has always been an abuse of the average…
Erin O’Toole And The Scandals That Will Destroy Him
Erin O'Toole knows that an election is coming, and he knows that he is going to lose. So he is becoming more and more desperate, and trying to smear Justin…
Sask Party Breaks Federal Election Law
The despicable election attack ads the SaskParty Saskatchewan Government ran to help the federal Conservative Party circumvent federal election spending limits, were not legal. Further, the SaskParty is partly funded…
The billionaire space race is an exploitative, wasteful farce
Hoping for material good to come from a private space race is a long and risky bet being made by the self-interest of billionaires driven by ego and the profit…
Then again, when you lose, you’ve already cooked up an excuse
If you had a case literally before a judge – right now – would you tweet, as @MaximeBernier did, this: pic.twitter.com/Wp6sRCe1Z7 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 23, 2021 The post…
Law Tweet of the Day: July 23, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay: Kevin O’Leary’s last-minute ‘confession’ made the Crown case at his wife’s trial, prosecutor says via Toronto Star Read more: https://bit.ly/WiseLawLegalTweet07232021 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Northern Ireland’s Problem Lives in London. Ask Fintan.
Irish Times columnist, Fintan O’Toole, has a word for the “made in Whitehall” mess that plagues Northern Ireland – “Brexternity.” It’s the wound that will not heal inflicted on the…
“Oh, you aren’t calling an election?”
It was fun the other day watching Farah Nasser of Global Television sparring verbally with prime minister Justin Trudeau. It was more notable for the lack of information than the…
Oil workers at the centre—getting transition priorities right
“They will not be left behind.” So said Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan at a news conference this week. The “they” he was referring to are workers in the oil…
July 22: The world change that has never made our news media.
As I began this, it seemed to me I should explain how we got to where we are. These are very bad times, indeed. Jeff Bezos, the richest man in…