Does this sound familiar? All governments , but XXXXX XXXXXXX’s has perfected the art. It operates on the principle of commitment inflation: as the action winds down, the pledges ramp…
After all the horror stories to emerge from long-term care facilities during the early stages of the Covid pandemic, one might expect that relatives of those in care would be…
De facto annexation. That’s how Ireland’s foreign minister describes Israel’s utterly illegal theft of the lands of the Palestinians. For decades much of the land Israel seized in the West…
#LegalTweetOfTheDay: Federal Court of Canada rules NEXUS cards can’t be cancelled for minor rules infractions via CBC – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Shorter Murray Mandryk: It’s important that we have compassion for everybody’s mental health concerns regardless of politics. And by that, I of course mean allowing partisan operatives from only one…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Grace Blakeley discusses how corporate handouts represent a major contributor to the concentration of wealth by the richest few. And CNN reports on…
Lawns are the manifestation of human environmental hubris, and it’s hurting all of us. Regular readers of Things Are Good know that lawns are bad for a myriad of reasons…
At Québec Solidaire’s recent National Council meeting, controversy broiled over the leadership’s proposal to censure an organized group within the party, the Collectif antiraciste décolonial. Photo courtesy Québec Solidaire/Twitter. Québec…
Duncan Cameron writes that, historically, the working class has driven social change. But that trend has been reversed: Today while the world faces growing inequalities, environmental destruction, and rapid climate…
Remember last December, when the town’s CAO announced that the Saunderson Vindictive Judicial Inquiry (aka the SVJI) was “equivalent with the top priorities we have, like providing clean drinking water”?…
What is an Executor? Your Executor is responsible for distributing the assets and properties of your Estate to your heirs. Who to choose as your Executor: Responsible Organized Good Communicator…
Cats amid chaos.
@kinsellawarren, @timothydenton and Daniel Bernhard from @friendscb will be our expert panelists this Tuesday evening on #UnpublishedTV with host @EdHandMedia, as we dig into Bill C-10 and its impact on…
What’s your take on populist government responses to Covid compared to those that are, shall we say, progressive and focused on the many? I think Covid is a brutal but…
Originally published by ‘Where Do We Stand’ Suzanne Simard A few weeks after the poaching of trees in the Six Mountains Community Forest became national news, once again Canadians are…
Why would that message pop up on your computer? You know, and I know, there is no such thing as free! It little matters whether the message was from Microsoft,…
At 4:02 o’clock on the afternoon of Sunday, May 23, 2021, somebody pressed the “tweet” button on Jason Kenney’s Twitter account, sending an enigmatic message about the government’s response to…
Three years ago today the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enacted in the EU to protect you from morally questionable digital surveillance, and trust me, we’re all better off…
Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through London and other British cities to protest against Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, May 22, 2021. Photo by Alisdare Hickson/Flickr. Over the…
The New Renaissance
There is a renaissance emerging now across humanity, as well as a paradigm shift in science; and a spiritual awakening is occurring, along with a political and cultural awakening. How…