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West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has been visiting Alberta. The Calgary Herald reports that: This week, Kenney hosted U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia who chairs the…
April 2022
How to Build People Focussed Communities
The Sustainable City Show · Ep 3: Creating Car-Free Communities | In Conversation With Eckart Wurzner & Chris Shears A sustainable world is a walkable city. Over at the Sustainable…
The Keening of Kenney.
It seems Alberta’s premier has decided to play out the tragedy of his time in Alberta politics. He was so eager and ready seven years ago when he bought a…
Today’s news: More American support
I love this photo, from this tweet. Carefully and cautiously, the United States appears to be taking a larger and more direct role in the Russia Ukraine War. I’m not…
Enjoy the reflected glow, Premier Kenney, visiting U.S. Senator Joe Manchin likely has a short shelf life remaining
Alberta Conservatives should enjoy basking in the glow cast by Joe Manchin while they can – the visiting U.S. Senator likely has a short shelf life remaining as “the key…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Regal cats.
Is the US stalling urgent diplomatic efforts in Ukraine?
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a meeting with the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, in the Mariinskyi Palace, Kyiv on February 2, 2022. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Next…
Canada’s military buildup in the Arctic threatens climate and Indigenous peoples
Soldiers from the 4th Canadian Division’s Arctic Response Company Group near Cornwallis Island, Nunavut. Photo courtesy 4th Canadian Division Public Affairs/Flickr. The militarists’ narrative goes something like this: despite not…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Shiven Taneja writes about the glaring need to keep masking to avoid the spread of COVID-19 even if governments have abandoned their…
Legal Tweet of the Day: April 12, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Boris Johnson to be fined by police over lockdown-breaking parties at UK government premises #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN https://cnn.it/378Hkee – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Now It’s Chemical Warfare
The bastards. It’s reported that Vlad Putin’s Visigoths have used phosphorus weapons against the Ukrainians. White phosphorus is truly wicked stuff. If it lands on your skin it can burn…
Ars Poetica
Horace’s Ars Poetica, or the Art of Poetry, was written as a 476-line poem in a letter to his friend, the Roman senator Lucius Calpurnius Piso (Lucius) and his two…
Simran Bakshi on Workplace and Employment Law: Ontario Human Rights Tribunal does not hold back in awarding Damages for Egregious Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
In the landmark decision of NK v Botuik, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal awarded an employee $170,000 in general damages, marking the second highest award ever made in a sexual…
Ship Of Fools
Andrew Nikiforuk writes that we are living through the Great Pandemic Denial. Consider the case of Boris Johnson: Last July U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who partied freely during two…
The Steps to Take to Save the World from Catastrophic Climate Change
By now you’ve heard that the most recent IPCC report shows that humanity is in a dire situation and we need to act now to avoid making the planet uninhabitable…
Freedom’s Forgotten Partner
We hear a lot about freedom these days. There was, of course, the infamous freedom convoy that occupied Ottawa for three weeks and disrupted the supply chain at border crossings.…
The Fool and His Bitcoin.
You asked “Who will protect your money?” It won’t be the Bitcoin miners. It won’t be MP Pierre Poilievre. In fact, Poilievre is using the Bitcoin confusion to try to…
Today’s news: Just a few items tonight
Photo from this tweet. I wasn’t feeling very well today — I did my first rapid test, luckily negative (though then I read this, so we’ll see) — but for…
Pierre Poilievre and the Trumpification of Canada
When the so-called Freedom Convoy invaded Ottawa Pierre Poilievre was there to welcome them with open arms. He supported them, he defended them, he brought them coffee and donuts. He…