Good news, for a change
A lot of my readers are anxious about Omicron. Some are anxious enough that they feel I’ve been focusing too much on Omicron bad news. So, here’s some good news.…
2021
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Niels-Jakob Hansen and Rui Mano study the effect of mask mandates in saving tens of thousands of lives in the U.S. alone…
What Are They Playing At?
It’s new fighter time for the RCAF. There were three contenders short-listed: the latest F-18, the SAAB Gripen and Lockheed’s F-35. The F-18 was rejected. Apparently it doesn’t meet the…
LegalTweetoftheDay: November 30, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Judge Temporarily Blocks Vaccine Mandate for Health Workers in 10 States via @nytimes – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Opinion: The machine is always right in Alberta’s municipal elections — and that’s wrong
Originally published in the Calgary Herald Opinion section on November 30, 2021. The day after Calgary’s municipal elections, the results said I lost Ward 4 by 52 votes. With it…
No Vaccine, No Airplane Ride.
As of today you’ll need proof of vaccination to board a train or jetliner in Canada. Perhaps spurred on by the Omicron variant, Ottawa has slammed shut the door to…
A Ray of Hope?
The Fraser Valley could receive another 50 mm of rain today but the mayor of Abbotsford seems confident his city is ready for it. Henry Braun told CBC that repairs…
See Through Solar Panels
The future is powered by renewables, and the more sources of electricity we have the more resilient our power grid will be. Researches at Michigan State University have created a…
The Bundestag teaches little.
It came as a surprise the other day when the Toronto Star’s opinion writer for the new democratic party, Robin Sears, lauded the German government’s electoral system. While the German…
Touting it as a winner, UCP picks hydroponic pea shoot producer for optimistic jobs announcement
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Alberta’s United Conservative Government has been reduced to doing what market fundamentalists like Jason Kenney usually vow they’ll never contemplate: picking winners and…
American Glory
I have just read a report that is stunning. Indeed, it’s the only believeable report on the murder of John F. Kennedy that makes sense. The usual story is that…
Unpublished TV hit: Parliament is back. Yawn.
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Sun Media: our hit on what Trudeau got right
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Toronto city councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam’s odd foray into COVID-19 misinformation and lessons learned…
Toronto councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam We have all been through such a tough couple of years dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. From the horrors of getting sick and dying or slowly…
On toxic preferences
From the standpoint of any reasonable observer, there’s reason for outrage that Saskatchewan is one of the provinces pushing to undermine federal standards for water pollution from coal mines –…
Christ On a Crutch!!
You might remember Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas from his former job as White House physician to president Donald Trump. Now Ronny is weighing in on the new Covid variant,…
Is Nature Adding Insult to Injury or Is Santa Bringing Coals to Newcastle?
British Columbia is known for having reliably unpredictable weather. I recall a meteorologist from Environment Canada saying that the accuracy of forecasts more than three days hence was somewhat worse…
Vertical Farming and the Future of Farms
Quality farmland ensures a good harvest which benefits many, from the producers of produce to the consumers. Our cities have grown around good for sources from the sea and land,…
Have I Got a Read For You
If you’re wondering why everything has gone haywire you might be interested in this, the October 2020 MIT Technology Review, The Long-Term Issue. Editor-in-Chief Gideon Lichfield offers a hell of…