Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Eric Andrew-Gee reports on the likelihood that Canada’s current COVID casualty numbers are a significant underestimate. Sabrina Jones highlights how health professionals are…
2021
Chretien’s Folly – Heading For the Bottom?
There are some Liberals who see Jean Chretien as a great man, one of Canada’s finest prime ministers. I liked Chretien but ‘great’? I associate Mr. Chretien with three things…
So Little Time, So Many Benighted Souls
As I have written elsewhere on this blog, my patience for those who willfully embrace ignorance, who prefer the blunt hammer of dark conspiracy to the hard work of thinking,…
Stand Up To Corporate Fascism!
Massive new mural in Germany protests the wrongful imprisonment of whistle-blower publisher, and hero of free speech and the public’s right to know about the crimes of the power elite,…
Ontario NDP’s climate plan is too little, too late
According to Joe Roberts, the ONDP’s Green New Democratic Deal is bad politics and could spell serious trouble for the party come election time. Photo by Matt Wiebe/Flickr. When Ontario…
Why We Failed
We have been dealing with COVID for over a year now. It’s clear that in North America and Europe we’ve failed on several fronts. Andrew Nikiforuk writes: Canada’s failures mirror…
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the week of April 5, 2021
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of April 5, 2021. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of April 5, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 5, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: Hillary Clinton cannot be deposed in private email lawsuit, SCOTUS affirms Judge…
Canute-like Kenney confronts Canadians.
In the supposedly moralistic story of King Canute of the North Sea Empire, Canute was demonstrating that even a king could not control the tides. It is somewhat strange that…
Robertson Davies and Alice Walker: A Review By Someone Who Has Never Read A Single Word They Have Written
Such a delightfully warm and witty man, Robertson Davies seems most definitely to be. He looks so severe, when you first look at his face, but then he speaks, and…
The Shifting Ground – Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Redundancy of the Human Species.
For generations, centuries, the horse and oxen were the muscle of agriculture. They ploughed the fields, harvested the grain and delivered the crop to market. For their time (and they…
Easter in Alberta
Whether you observe Easter, Passover, or the rising of the first full moon after the spring equinox, this is the time of year when we emerge from the gloom of…
Punk Easter, maaaan
Punk rock Easter dinner from East and Main. Wine by my neighbors.
Biden is playing an apocalyptic game of chicken with China
The USS Ronald Reagan and USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Groups steam in formation in the South China Sea, July 6, 2020. US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class…
Alberta’s draft curriculum will make the province a laughingstock
The United Conservative Party’s new draft K-6 curriculum is plagued with basic errors and out-of-sequence historical narratives. Photo courtesy Jason Kenney/Twitter. Leaving aside the stomach-clutching hilarity of some parts of…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about Canada’s contributions to the evidence showing how COVID-zero strategies have produced better results in terms of both health…
Mass Digital Addiction vs Reading
Remember, as Thoreau said, “Read the best books first, otherwise you might never read them at all.” And in this age of pandemic digital addiction, media overload and mass information…