True Cost of Coal – Interview with Beehive Design Collective members
We reached out to the creators of the True Cost of Coal rhyming narrative & activity book to learn more about the beautiful book and why they decided to make…
2021
Those Who Play with Covid Fire Deserve the Consequences
It can be infuriating to read of these scofflaws who organize Covid parties or anti-mask rallies that, like moths to a flame, draw the village idiots to gather and expose…
Biden’s Job Creation Plan
This week, Joe Biden proposed his American Families Plan. Paul Krugman writes that, while the plan has many parts, it will create a lot of jobs. And the Republicans are…
Covid Journal, April 30, 2021
Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s Bill C-10 is a disaster waiting to happen. Petition to make it stop.
How COVID-19 and CERB proved that basic income is not only possible—it works
The Canada Emergency Response Benefit has been an essential lifeline for millions of Canadians during the pandemic, amounting to just the sort of no-strings-attached Basic Income that had already been…
Doug Ford: Ideologue.
This is an open and shut case. Ontario premier Doug Ford is obviously an ideologue. His beliefs and actions in government prove that he is committed to extreme right-wing political…
FlashbackFriday: On Health Care Reform, Sex Offenders and Viagra
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from March 25, 2010 via Wise Law Blog: On Health Care Reform, Sex Offenders and Viagra – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Premier’s news conference shows little change in Alberta’s inconsistent, indecisive, confusing, unsuccessful approach to COVID-19
If there was an obvious takeaway yesterday afternoon from Premier Jason Kenney’s announcement Alberta is reimposing “targeted regional measures to bend the curve,” it was that his government’s inconsistent, indecisive…
Kudos to Maria Ressa
Among the numerous seriously unpleasant men leading countries in the world today, Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines, must be included. Perhaps his most odious policy is his support for…
Mick Jagger and the Art of the Pandemic
Soon after the Great Plague began I started collecting bits and pieces of pandemic art, so that one day I could remember that it wasn't all darkness. And that not…
April 28: Never underestimate the power of greed.
It was ever thirty years ago the I last visited China. It was then a land of old and battered housing. There was wide poverty. Today it is a land…
Who controls the basic income narrative?
It is time to stop making excuses and tackle poverty head on, writes New Democratic Party MP Leah Gazan. Basic income is a policy whose time has come. Image by…
Legal Tweet of the Day: April 29, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: BC Judge says host of makeshift nightclub’s illegal gathering a ‘crime, not a party’ via @CBCNews – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Trudeau abandons promised LTC standards, bowing to for-profit care agenda
Canada has had the highest number, among all OECD nations, of long-term care home deaths attributable to COVID-19, and the pandemic has spawned a broad consensus that how we care…
Shooting Ones-Self in the Foot in Milton
As someone who spent a lot of time working and volunteering in politics, there are certain things that I have come to both appreciate and shake my head at, sometimes…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk calls for us to learn from over a year’s worth of experience with COVID-19 and guard against aerosol spread to…
Saunderson Follows Stalin’s Lead
In the 1930s, the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin removed his political rivals and enemies from history. Literally: he had their images brushed out of photographs, their names removed from books.…
India’s COVID crisis shows why Canada needs to oppose vaccine monopolies
On April 28, India’s official death toll climbed past 200,000, while authorities recorded 362,757 infections in a 24-hour period, bringing the total number of cases to more than 17.9 million.…
Green Roofs: The Bigger the Better
Every post this week has been about roofs, we looked at white, blue, and soy roofs. Let’s not forget about the classic green roof. The classic green roof is tried…