My latest: C-10 must be stopped. But who will stop it?
It’s not censorship. It’s not censorship to want to use the law to prohibit, and punish, those who make and distribute child pornography. It’s not censorship to object to hate…
2021
Saunderson’s Petty Vindictiveness on Display
If you ever doubted our mayor, Brian Saunderson, was engaged in a petty, personal vendetta against people who thwarted him in 2012, you only need to read a recent article…
The Big Lie Is The Big Disease
It has been remarkable to watch what has happened to the Republican Party. Tom Friedman writes: Under Trump’s command and control from Mar-a-Largo, and with the complicity of most of…
Simran Bakshi on Employment Law: Challenging Your Employment Agreement
If your agreement was signed after your employment already started, it may not be enforceable. If your job title or duties significantly changed since your agreement was signed, your employment…
Architects Need to Build Their Knowledge to Build a Sustainable Future
Current popular building practices lack a nuanced approach to sustainability due to years of it being culturally ok to put future generations into ecological debt. Thankfully, things are starting to…
A snapshot in time.
Nothing is more foolish than to read the opinion polls of today and apply them to a general election somewhere down the distant road. The polls are nothing more than…
Covid Journal, May 5, 2021
The debate is over. Let’s get moving forward – get vaccinated.
Jason Kenney steps up to rostrum, announces new COVID-19 restrictions, then skedaddles
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney stepped up to the rostrum at his hastily scheduled 6:02 p.m. “news conference” yesterday, reeled off what he proposes to do about the fact Alberta now…
Rash of Tree Thefts In North Cowichan
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Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cushioned cats.
When Lockdown is a Luxury You Can’t Afford
The current Covid hotspot is the world’s second most populous nation, Narendra Modi’s India. As the pandemic, and especially the double-mutation Indian variant, sweep through India’s major cities, other countries…
Is Canada Sliding Into a Form of Tribalism?
Like most democracies, Canada has always had a left/right, liberal/conservative divide. For most of this nation’s history there were bonds between the two, enough that we were usually able to…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates May 4, 2021
NOTE: If you currently send the updates to Steve Martinez, please stop, as he was recently released. Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/updates-4-may-2021.pdf NYC ABC, along…
Who is considered an expert? News reporting on drugs must do better
According to Rebecca Hume and Katharina Maier, centring the voices and lived experiences of people who use drugs (PWUD) as well as the insights of harm reduction and public health…
May 20-23: The Great Transition 2021, “Building Utopias”
Every year, activists and militants from the Historical Materialism network organize The Great Transition/La Grande Transition conference. While it still can’t be held in person this year, due to COVID-19,…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Apoora Mandavilli warns about the looming prospect that the U.S. will be unable to reach herd immunity through vaccination due to right-wing…
A Little On Workspaces and Design
This morning on CBC, there was a brief segment on “what will workplaces look like after COVID”. They brought in someone from one of the big architecture firms to talk…
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 4, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay: Group of Ontario police officers launches charter challenge of pandemicrestrictions via CBC News – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
“If All You Have is a Hammer….”
As a practitioner of the political arts, I can’t help but watch and observe how people of the others side or other political teams operate. I’m a big believer that…
Writing politics during the pandemic
Neon installation by British multimedia artist Tim Etchells, displayed on the side of the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, Greece from November 7, 2016 to July 31, 2017. Photo from…