Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – C Raina MacIntyre offers five reasons to keep wearing a mask even after mandates are removed – and the arguments are even…
March 2022
Another Way of Looking at Political Parties in Canada
With Pierre Poilievre as the Tory leadership front runner I anticipate the Conservative and People’s parties fighting for the right wing fringe vote and collectively becoming the Party of the…
More Fordian Flim Flam
Three months before an election, Doug Ford wants to raise the minimum wage of gig workers to $15 an hour. But Jim Stanford warns that the devil is in the…
Where The Truth Lies
Yesterday, a friend forwarded to me a video that is shocking in content, showing a tank running over and crushing a car. There was no accompanying information, so I did…
This Library Wants You to Ride a Bicycle
An active group of academics want more people to be fit and have fun. The Urban Cycling Institute has set out to educate the average person on the multitude of…
The Pity of Putin.
The other day, we suggested that Vladimir Putin of Russia was following in the footsteps of Adolph Hitler. I take that back. The reason is that Mr. Putin does not…
Behave like our house is on fire… because it is
A 2021 study published online by Cambridge University Press aimed to learn about “experts” promoting the claim that human impact on Earth’s climate is either non-existent or insignificant. Researchers examined…
Today’s News: Holding on
These past two years have been the longest decade ever. — George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) March 3, 2022 #BREAKING Map of the approximate situation in Ukraine as of 01:00 UTC 03/03/22.…
Why The Cons Can’t Escape the Horror of the Terrorist Convoy
Yesterday the Globe writer John Ibbitson wrote a column suggesting that Pierre Poilievre was too much of a cheerleader for the trucker terrorists. As well as too much of a…
‘We have met the enemy and it is us’
Funny thing about how long it took the police to take action to clear the various truck protests. I wonder what took them so long....The Rev. Paperboy Feed
‘We have met the enemy and it is us’
Funny thing about how long it took the police to take action to clear the various truck protests. I wonder what took them so long…. The Rev. Paperboy Feed
The greatest evil is war
Ukrainian firefighters stand beneath a television broadcast tower in the Jewish cemetery located in Kyiv’s Babi Yar Holocaust memorial site on March 1, 2022. Photo courtesy State Emergency Service of…
No, opposing pipelines does not make you a Putin stooge
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney attends a rally in Edmonton in support of Ukraine following Russia’s invasion. Photo courtesy Ukrainian Canadian Congress – Alberta Provincial Council. The second Russia launched its…
The Challenge of Misinformation
As the invasion of Ukraine goes into the second week, the World continues to react to the aggressive actions of Russia and its president Vladimir Putin. Given that we live…
Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine is Unconscionable. It’s Time for NATO and the World to Do What We Must.
This is very difficult for me to write. Like many Canadians – and indeed, like many around the world, I’ve watched in horror as Russian President Vladimir Putin commanded Russia’s…
Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine is Unconscionable. It’s Time for NATO and the World to Do What We Must.
This is very difficult for me to write. Like many Canadians – and indeed, like many around the world, I’ve watched in horror as Russian President Vladimir Putin commanded Russia’s…
Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine is Unconscionable. It’s Time for NATO and the World to Do What We Must.
This is very difficult for me to write. Like many Canadians – and indeed, like many around the world, I’ve watched in horror as Russian President Vladimir Putin commanded Russia’s…
Legal Tweet of the Day: March 2, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario judge dismisses churches’ challenge against COVID-19 rules #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3HOAvuF – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The Max Planck Society explores how COVID-19 has developed to hide out and mutate within the human body. Tami Luhby discusses how even…
Vancouver Police release highly militaristic copaganda recruiting ad
The Vancouver Police Department released a series of recruitment ads on March 1st. The VPD’s ad elevated one of the worst parts of policing – the high militarization of the…