Pensée Du Jour
Nothing profound, other than to say it is good to know that amongst the provinces, Ontario is not alone in its government’s ineptitude. H/t Theo Moudakis Recommend this Post
2021
Join the No-Mow May Campaign
Pollinators love the spring and they love your lawn….until you cut it. Spring time is when pollinators need a quick get up and go meal, which usually comes from those…
Kenney’s Hell
Andrew Nikiforuk writes that Jason Kenney is in a hell of his own making: Alberta has now recorded more daily confirmed COVID-19 cases on a per capita basis than any…
Simran Bakshi on Workplace and Employment Law
Employers Beware – Even the most Remote Possibility of Violating the ESA will render a Termination Provision Invalid Termination clauses in employment contracts must be drafted very carefully, with due…
Talking More Confusing Messaging on COVID Vaccinations with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Lindsay Maskell & Jason Lietaer for the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about NACI’s confusing and conflicting advice on…
As the cow farts.
To be honest, this little story is more about burps than farts. Farts are more amusing. It is about the ability of both milk and beef cattle to produce large…
Federal budget ignores Canada’s ongoing genocide against Indigenous peoples
Mural artist Tom Andrich’s public display in honour of murdered and missing indigenous women, located on the Portage Avenue and Empress Street overpass in Winnipeg. Photo courtesy UM Today. Canada…
Jason Kenney edges closer to blaming Albertans for the province’s COVID-19 predicament
Considering his performance at yesterday’s COVID-19 briefing, it seems Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is working himself up to a look-in-the-mirror moment. In Canadian politics, that’s not something that involves looking…
The 2021 federal budget
I’ve written a ‘top 10’ overview of the recent federal budget. The link to the post is available here: https://nickfalvo.ca/ten-things-to-know-about-canadas-2021-federal-budget/
What Next? Perhaps "Cave Syndrome".
Here’s something no vaccine can fix – cave syndrome. After a year in isolation, many people who have developed an intimate understanding of what it means to socially isolate are…
Stephen Harper’s Monstrous Anniversary
I've been so busy recently that I somehow forgot that it has now been ten years since one of the worst nights of my life. The night when Stephen Harper…
Well, When You Put It That Way, Yeah, He’s a Dick
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens is no bleeding heart leftie but I was touched by his description of Texas senator Ted Cruz in today’s column with Gail Collins, to…
Legally Adulting Online – May 27, 2021
Join Simran Bakshi and Paul Adam on May 27th at 7:00 pm for another #LegallyAdultingOnline via Zoom and Facebook Live. It will be a night of virtual interactive discussion of…
The Cancer Diaries, Part 28
This month marks a year since my biopsy that indicated I had an aggressive form of prostate cancer. It’s been quite a year for me, easily the most stressful and…
Death of an elm
The idea that trees have personalities may be offensive to science, but sometimes they just do. Such is the massive elm that sits in the middle of a Calgary Stampede…
PEF Student Essay Contest Deadline Extended to May 11
To allow the maximum number of quality student essays to join the already promising submissions we have received, PEF is extending the deadline for our 2021 PEF Student Essay Contest…
Chomsky: Corporate Fascism Clarified
Exactly as I said this spring, in an essay titled, Sinking All Ships (Except Our Own), Chomsky is saying, as well, what by now should be obvious to all: the…
Defending the left case against basic income
A MakePovertyHistory march attended by an estimated 200,000 people before a G8 Summit in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2, 2005. Photo by Bruno Vincent. Canadian Dimension recently ran two important contributions…
Canada’s Secret Weapon in Fighting Climate Change: Great Trade Unions
U.S. President Joe Biden has been pushing the envelope in bringing America back into the Paris Accord process, setting more ambitious targets for reducing U.S. emissions, and committing to very…
The Argument for White Supremacy
It seems that the main argument of the white supremacists is that white western European countries would not have conquered the world if they were not superior societies. Of course…