Economics of delusion
Ethnographer, writer, photographer, filmmaker, and native of British Columbia, Wade Davis speaks…
August 2022
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates August 23, 2022
NOTE: If you currently send the updates to Eric King, he has been moved: Eric King #27090-045 USP Florence ADMAX Post Office Box 8500 Florence, Colorado 81226 Click here for…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ben Beckett interviews Max Desbris about the role a climate breakdown plays in exacerbating natural disasters, while Grace Livingstone and Ellen Tsang report…
A Window Into Their ‘Minds’
If you read this blog with any regularity, you probably know that I hold the crazed right in abject contempt. Their eagerness to embrace conspiracies, their elevation of ‘Queen’ Romana…
Legal Tweet of the Day: August 24, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Temporary changes to EI made during pandemic are set to expire late next month #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CityNewsTO https://bit.ly/3wPyYBV – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
My latest: fuck you, Putin
BOSTON – Down here, the Stars and Stripes are ubiquitous, but there’s nothing new there. It’s America, after all. But there’s another kind of flag to be seen here, now.…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What is Probate?
When you name a person in your last will to be the Executor of your Estate, that person sometimes needs to also apply to the Court to be appointed formally…
He’s Heading For Lots of Pain
It’s been a tough couple of weeks for Donald Trump. After the FBI retrieved government documents from his home, things got steadily worse for Trump. The New York Times reports…
Where’s Canada as Israel escalates attacks on Palestinian NGOs?
Members of the Israeli military raid the offices of Al-Haq, a human rights organization based in Ramallah, Palestine, August 18, 2022. Photo courtesy Al-Haq. In a series of alarming events…
Poilievre’s Petulance.
It’s hard to believe that a person born and educated in the Province of Alberta would not question the past three years of continuous drought conditions in that province. Pierre…
Random and funny stuff
it’s hard to remember that the future is still being built. it’s hard not to think of those days as pre-made— squares on a board game waiting for our little…
Screwed!
It may be too late to save the billions of dollars that will flow to private power producers because corrupt practices are not easily resolved in court. But it is…
Splish-splash! Saskatchewan’s Scott Moe channels UCP frontrunner Danielle Smith’s cynical Sovereignty Act performance
CALGARY – Is there something in the water in Saskatchewan? Or has Premier Scott Moe’s government just been paying too much attention to the success of the separatist pish-posh served…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats on the ball.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jonny Thomson writes about the philosophy of “lagom” as an alternative to perpetually demanding more. But Matt Gurney notes that on a…
Please Take an Election Sign
C ollingwood residents: I would very much appreciate it if you would allow me to place one of my election signs on your lawn. Please fill in your name, phone…
This Is Gonna Hurt
I have a friend whose daughter recently started her career in healthcare as an occupational therapist in a facility where people are awaiting placements in LTCs, and already she is…