Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Marlene Habib writes about the continued efforts of grocery workers to ensure we have access to food and supplies in the face of…
2021
Are Cwood’s Symbolic Gestures Mere Platitudes?
I understand symbolic gestures: they’re what we do when we cannot change a situation, but want to express our anger, passion, compassion, outrage, sadness, support, angst, or other emotions. From…
Legal Tweet of the Day: July 14, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay:Britney Spears returns to court. Here’s what has happened in her conservatorship battle since the last hearing via CNN Read more: https://bit.ly/WiseLawLegalTweet07142021 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
Reflections on the good life – Simplify, simplify
What brings true happiness? A healthy lifestyle; a positive attitude, outlook and philosophy; a simple life close to nature; meaningful work; time spent in solitude and stillness, reconnecting with yourself;…
Shaking up the status quo in the NDP
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh announces the 2019 election platform in Ottawa. Still image from YouTube/CBC. This article is part of a series in which CD editors asked NDPers, current and…
MacKinnon’s Call to Stop Shopping
J.B. MacKinnon co-wrote the 100-Mile Diet years ago, which was a good read. It didn’t have much effect on my eating because it was a bit too extreme for even…
The ‘new Cold War’ and the hegemony of global capitalism
Sukhoi Su-27s of the Russian Knights and MIG-29s of the Swifts, Russian Air Force aerobatic demonstration teams, perform in a formation flying at the China International Aviation Aerospace Exhibition in…
Protect Your Wisdom by Leaving Facebook
American adults who got their news about COVID-19 from Facebook were less knowledgeable and more likely to believe falsehoods about the pandemic. The solution is to spend less time on…
Short Term Politics
Robert Asselin writes that we have been cursed by what he calls “short term politics:” It’s my belief that the professionalization of partisan politics — by which I refer to…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estate: What is Probate?
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Promises, promises.
Christmas might come early this year. Prime minister Justin Trudeau is so obviously weighing the pros and cons of just when to call the election. Summer elections are rather unpredictable.…
In hot water for hiring private eye to shadow judge, social conservative litigator John Carpay exits, stage right
“Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me …”* Cock-a-doodle do! Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal (Photo: Manitoba…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Attentive cats.
North Cowichan Mayor Al Siebring: the apology that never was
Originally published by sixmountains.ca And the sexist joke that just won’t go away. North Cowichan Mayor Al Siebring published an “apology” on his Facebook page the other day. Then…
July 13: An Extra Opinion for the Week.
The western U.S. and Canada are now becoming unlivable. There is murderous heat in Death Valley where temperatures are the highest ever recovered anywhere – 54.6C. -and it’s going to…
After only two days in Nomad Sculpt…
Who nose? … it’s clear I’m a genius
Hell on Earth. It’s Arrived.
“Climate change has loaded the weather dice against us,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University and chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy. “These extremes are something…
Country Ahead of Party? Fat Chance.
It’s enough to make Liberals giddy. A majority win for the LPC is a matter of dropping the writ. 338 Canada has run the numbers. It concludes that with barely…
Big Brother Is Watching You – and Yes, It Matters
I talked to my boy in the car this past weekend about what to do when he drives, if he has any problems; and he talked to me about the…