Calgary—Canada’s most liveable city?
Is it? Is Calgary Canada’s most liveable city? I wouldn’t dare answer the question. My fellow Calgarians might bridle at my response. But the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) dares. And…
June 2022
Future of the Metaverse
My contribution to a report by Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center and Pew Research, The Future of the Metaverse. Opportunities for fraud and scams will abound. As well, there…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Katherine Wu writes about the much-needed update to COVID-19 vaccines coming this fall – and the challenge getting people to receive them…
What a fucking disgrace
@PierrePoilievre is marching in Ottawa with a guy who he knows is linked to Accelerationist neo-Nazis. Read that again. #cpcldr #cdnpoli https://t.co/E4B0TZr0dA — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 30, 2022
Why did you leave the Green Party?
This a question I am sometimes asked as I run for City Council with Vision Vancouver.The short answer is I wanted to be in a ‘big tent' party, one that…
Why did you leave the Green Party?
This a question I am sometimes asked as I run for City Council with Vision Vancouver. The short answer is I wanted to be in a ‘big tent’ party, one…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 30, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: R. Kelly sentenced to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking, racketeering #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3NxEhew – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
The Talibangelists Are Winning
I imagine what I’m feeling now about the rise of the extremist, pseudo-Christian right (aka the Talibangelists, aka Christofascists) in the USA, Canada, and in other democracies is what my…
Glen Cairn Pathway System Deterioration
Bridlewood is not the only Kanata South community with crumblingmulti-use pathways (MUPs) that are deteriorating due to multiplefreeze-thaw cycles every year as a result of climate change. This pathway through…
An Inflection Point
Marjorie LeBreton writes that it’s make or break for the Conservative Party of Canada: I have been a Conservative all of my adult life, witnessing firsthand the party’s evolutions and…
Right wing think tanks are urging Canada to become an ‘Indo-Pacific’ power
HMCS Winnipeg and sails past the Greater Victoria Shoreline en route to Hawaii with their embarked Royal Canadian Air Force CH-148 Cyclone helicopters for the Rim of the Pacific exercise…
A Pipeline’s Progress.
With parliament paused for summer recess and the prime minister off, playing with prime ministers and presidents in foreign climes, we hear more bad news about our government’s favourite pipeline.…
Bizarre UCP plan would see Alberta patients and their Alberta docs shipped to B.C. for surgeries, then shipped back
What the hell was the Kenney Government up to last fall when it had the brainstorm to compel Alberta Health Services to ship patients and their surgeons to an apparently…
Trump’s triumph
Donald Trump only served one term but his legacy will last decades, if not generations. He ensured that by appointing no less than three right wing justices to the U.S.…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates June 28, 2022
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Adeel Hassan reports on the dominance of the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron strains in the U.S. Phil Tank reminds us of the folly…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 29, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: ‘It’s intimidation’: Judge faces threats after Freedom Convoy hearings #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3QRWI0B – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
My law: the end of law
What if there are no more rules? What if there are no more laws? No more precedents, no more constitutions, no more charters? What if the law just becomes what…
Why isn’t Trump about to be jailed for his criminal behaviour?
Photo by Marco Verch/Flickr The television broadcasting of the select congressional committee hearings on the January 6 Capitol riot confirms what we already knew, though with a lot of gory…
The Power To Shock
I readily admit that most days, almost nothing fazes me, having come to the same conclusion as George Carlin that we are going away. Looking at all of the existential…