It’s Depressing. I Get It.
The clans are on the move. They’re heading for Glasgow. Brace yourselves. You’re about to be COPped. Ordinarily I’d be posting a lot about the upcoming COP26 climate summit that…
2021
Thursday Morning Truth and Reconciliation Day Links
A few links and reports for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. – Rose Lemay writes that reconciliation requires systemic change at the level of individual assumptions and awareness.…
Defiance Comes With A Cost
One of the things that riles me more than most is the absolute zeal with which the anti-vaxxers embrace their cause. Call it truculence, call it misplaced zeal, call it…
Another Council Facepalm Moment
In a story on CollingwoodToday, this week council again discussed their job-growth-and revenue-killing interim control bylaw (ICBL) that has stopped the town from issuing new home building permits for the…
The Boy’s Cheese
Things are pretty tough these days in Alberta. Dave Climenhaga writes: Brace yourselves, Alberta, for a hard circuit-breaker lockdown to rein in the province’s surging, out-of-control COVID-19 infection rate. We…
Nursing Home Abuse During Times of COVID-19
Photo: NPR COVID-19 has taken a terrible toll on Canadian long term care residents. Over 50% of
Greens: Wasn’t That a Party?
Alright, times up. The only answer to Canada’ green party is dissolution. The party has been tested and found wanting. It is a fractious and unruly group. It practices regicide…
Here’s how to learn more on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
6 ways to deepen your understanding of Indian residential school history By Carolyn Ali Orange shirts placed next to Vancouver’s Marine Drive honour Indigenous children sent to residential schools. Shirt…
Today’s news: Truth and Reconciliation
Excerpt from the poem Forgiving Our Fathers,from one of the best movies ever made, Smoke Signals. Residential School Survivor offers advice on how to honour National Day for Truth and…
The death graph
A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words. It’s true for me anyway. Maybe it’s my engineering background, but charts, graphs, etc. often make a point much more effectively…
Lotus Land turned to La La land
John Horgan is involved in a political game that could be called, “Look at This, Not at That!” No one can argue with the need for energy users to use…
My latest: no truth. No reconciliation.
Neither truthful nor reconciling. Justin Trudeau, that is. With Canada’s Indigenous peoples, he promised to be both. He hasn’t been either. Tomorrow, on one day of all days, the day…
Can Collingwood Pass the Strong Towns’ Test?
Back in 2014, the USA-based Strong Towns group posted a test to “measure a successful Strong Town.” The ten questions or conditions posed include: Take a photo of your main…
America’s Vanishing Ladder
Some Americans still boast of their country as the “land of opportunity.” The place where anyone with guts and a bit of willpower can make it, where prosperity can be…
The difficult journey upstream
One of the signature messages of Ryan Meili’s work in activism and politics has been the concept of upstream thinking – described in extremely brief form here: To imagine a…
national day for truth and reconciliation: bearing witness, finding meaning
On September 30, many Canadians will have the day off in honour of a new holiday: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The holiday was created in response to the…
The "Free Alberta Strategy"
I'll forgive people elsewhere in Canada who might be wondering what the hell is going on in Alberta. A little over a year ago, we were treated to the spectacle…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 29, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: TTC claims employee vaccines disclosure refusal an illegal strike via @TorontoStar – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Lara Herrero offers a quick guide to what we know about the Delta variant – and how it should change our previous perspective…
Well … Yesterday Was An Off-Price Day In Alberta Politics
The day started with a bunch of Kenney’s caucus showing up at yet another separatist policy dog-whistle being unveiled: … and it ended with a COVID update presser from Jason…