About Next Week
A reprieve. According to the Weather Network 7 day outlook, sodden southern BC will catch a break this week. A day, maybe two of light rain. Nothing that looks particularly…
A reprieve. According to the Weather Network 7 day outlook, sodden southern BC will catch a break this week. A day, maybe two of light rain. Nothing that looks particularly…
More Elon Musks will not save the planet, but will keep us following false solutions while the planet burns, writes Paris Marx. Image by Canadian Dimension. Thomas Friedman is at…
Species migration – check. Pest migration and proliferation – check and double-check. Ocean acidification – check. Record wildfires – check. Record heat waves and heat domes – check and check.…
Full story here. Snippets below: “People’s Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier has been dealt a blow in his defamation action against noted political pundit Warren Kinsella after an…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Montreal students upset after being asked to drop their pants and undergo search at school via @CBCNews – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ed Yong writes about the damage to people’s health as care workers flee their jobs in the wake of the COVID pandemic. Kenyon…
Education. Well, it’s part of the answer anyway. And the question? How does society mount a serious effort to combat racism in its many forms, be it directed against Muslims,…
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything in this space, mostly because I’ve been taking some time to disconnect and take some time for myself and my family. At…
In his column for yesterday’s National Post, John Robson opines that the problems that Jason Kenney and Erin O’Toole are having with the electorate are because they aren’t being “Real…
Political scientists have been analyzing how people voted in the last election. Even though the seat count is about the same, there are shifts happening among the voters. Andrew Parkin…
Can Ontario make it to next June? That will be our first chance to get rid of the worst provincial government in Ontario since the bumbling of Mike Harris. It…
Stephen Harper, the former Canadian Conservative Prime Minister, plans to team up with a protégé of Carl Icahn, the notorious vulture capitalist and destroyer of American jobs. Mr. Harper and…
Attentive cats.
I’m assuming he’s assuming there’s no other rebels. Which may be a big assumption. #cdnpoli https://t.co/Jk33pq5EgM — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 17, 2021 The post But apparently the anti-vaxxers remain…
With apologies to Frank Oz, whom I’m sure smells good and has a light touch. This made me laugh a lot https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/cookie-monster-on-the-dole even more than this did The Rev. Paperboy…
The Trump administration in the USA cut funding for their Environmental Protection Agency which led to an increase in pollution that harms people and nature. The pollution problem isn’t all…
With thousands of British Columbians facing dangerous flooding, inflation soaring to 20-year highs, and the virus surging again, it’s comforting to know that the Conservative Party of Canada is focused…
I’ve been off work for a a couple of days due to an eye injury (scratched cornea, if you -like my employer – feel you must know) but I will…
Capitalism and the Death Drive Byung-Chul Han Polity, 2021 Capitalism and the Death Drive is a set of 19 essays and interviews published between 2012 and 2020 by South Korean-born…
It's finally happened. Somebody has finally stuck a pin into Erin O'Toole's Con balloon. I knew it was going to happen. The writing has been on the wall since the…