This Makes Me Sad, Fire Takes Landmark From Corner Gas
Fire destroys iconic grain elevator from TV show Corner Gas https://t.co/N6nWCPsVoe — CBC Saskatchewan (@CBCSask) November 5, 2021
2021
China’s winding road towards capitalism
View of downtown Shanghai, China at night. Photo by Li Yang/Unpslash. There is perhaps no bigger controversy among partisans of the left than the nature of China and its economy.…
The Climate Crisis – Why We’re Not Playing to Win
It’s been some time since I realized that we will never avert climate catastrophe until we recognize that Earth is finite and the only future for humanity depends on our…
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 5, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Alberta judge convicts man of assault for coughing on server in Calgary bar via @CBCNews – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Friday reading. – Emma Buchanan writes about the restrictions on media access that have resulted in people being poorly informed about the damage done by COVID-19.…
Trying Air Canada’s new Ottawa to Toronto Island service
For years, Porter Airlines has had a lock on the Toronto Island Airport, aka Billy Bishop or YTZ, flying Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft to points in Eastern Canada and the…
Loblaw sees ‘profit improvements’ in wage and benefit cuts
Loblaw makes its profits by paying workers poverty wages, writes Mitchell Thompson. Photo by Lars Hagberg. Twice since the pandemic began, the billionaire CEO of Loblaw Companies Ltd. has risked…
Fading Politicians
Politicians are not the big wigs they used to be. Glen Pearson writes: For those eager to watch the regular gatherings among leaders of the most powerful democratic nations, this…
Are Erin O’Toole’s Cons Getting Ready To Give Him the Hook?
Ever since the COP 26 summit began, Erin O'Toole has tried very hard to pretend that it isn't happening. Not saying anything, not even tweeting a word about it. No…
Chronicling the decline of the industrial age in Hamilton
Shift Change: Scenes from a Post-industrial Revolution Stephen Dale Between the Lines, 2021 How do you write a city? The lives, the languages, the million tangled paths. The strip malls,…
It’s Too Late for Ford.
The Ford government in Ontario is desperately seeking voter approval for next June. The election is seven months away, but to win, the conservatives figured they better start early. The…
UCP bill will allow big money and dark money back into election financing, restrict free speech rights, NDP Opposition says
Alberta’s United Conservative Party introduced new election financing legislation yesterday that appears likely to allow big money and dark money to start flowing back into provincial politics as well as…
Schadenfreude, Hydro-Québec and the Maine referendum
It’s called schadenfreude, the satisfaction you get from someone else’s misfortune. Some Albertans may be feeling it this week after the referendum in Maine that rejected a Hydro-Québec transmission line…
Apparently, Just An Error In Judgement
I find myself sinking into seemingly irremediable cynicism about the human species. This is but one of the reasons: Recommend this Post
Nikiforuk – Back to The Future. No, Really. Party Like It’s 1970.
What if we could go back to the 70s? The early 70s. Global population stood around 3.5 billion (8 billion today). The human ecological footprint had not quite exceeded our…
Has the Other Shoe Finally Dropped? The Inconvenient Truth about Climate Adaptation.
It was a subject of some discussion years ago when the debate focused on whether the world had shifted from one geological epoch, the gentle Holocene, into a new, man-made…
Justin, it’s time to raise the flag again
You may have noticed that the once-proud Canadian emblem, the Maple Leaf flag, has been looking somewhat shamefaced these days. On all federal buildings, the banner has been lowered to…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Christine Gibson writes about the need to start seriously fighting against the dangers posed by a climate breakdown, rather than merely hoping…
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 4, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Air Canada suspends more than 800 unvaccinated workers under new federal rules via @CBCNews – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
Why Québec’s big bet on hydropower is bad news for the climate
Photo by Fré Sonneveld/Unsplash Hydro-Québec’s goal to be “the battery of North America” recently received a setback in Maine. Some 60 percent of voters in a November 2 referendum in…