August 2022
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jacques Poitras exposes how New Brunswick’s end to public health measures in response to COVID-19 was based on a single flawed study linked…
Eating on the road: Coast in Vancouver
When I’m on the West Coast (aka the best coast) I need to have fish. It’s the rules. So when I took a break from work last night in Vancouver,…
The Inmates Run Amok
One of the people I follow religiously on Twitter is Caryma Sa’d. A Toronto lawyer and satirist, her online presence is largely devoted to video she shoots of the unhinged…
Privatization in Ontario
It’s vital in Ontario that we understand the problems with privatization because the shift of essential services from the public to private sphere is happening right under our noses. Brittlestar…
Can Colombia and Venezuela turn the page on decades of conflict?
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, left, and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Photos courtesy Telesur. Colombia and Venezuela are two countries with unbreakable geographical, historical, and cultural ties. Indeed, they were once…
Hell’s Bell.
It was twelve years ago when we had to get in line to tell the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) why Bell Canada should not be allowed to buy…
Today’s News: "We will stay here together"
Zelenskyy: “Our land is the only thing we have. We will stay here together.” https://t.co/uNoxkJbTWN — Cathie from Canada ?? ??️? (@CathieCanada) August 19, 2022 When the Ukraine-Russia War started…
BC is good at climate action failure
Peter McCartney wrote about government and industry turning northeast British Columbia into a sacrifice zone: If this destruction were happening in the Lower Mainland or the Capital Regional District, it…
My political philosophy revealed by a surprising source
Reading the latest issue of my favourite magazine, Alberta Views, I encountered an article that, to my surprise, neatly summed up my political philosophy. Surprised because I’ve never expressed it…
Corporate pollution and destruction licensed by government
In May 2016, British Columbia’s Auditor General Carol Bellringer released An Audit of Compliance and Enforcement of the Mining Sector. It was a scathing but underreported report quickly forgotten by…
Today’s tonic: “Police call for Brazil’s Bolsonaro to be charged for spreading Covid misinformation”
Police call for Bolsonaro to be charged for spreading Covid misinformation. Brazil’s federal police ask supreme court to charge president over bogus claims in October 2021 social media broadcast. #Brazil…
Three more skills we have lost to the internet
I recently read a book called 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet, by Pamela Paul. I highly recommend it. It’s a funny and thoughtful read, full of sharp observations…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jason Gale reports on new research showing how COVID-19 can cause impacts on the brain for a period of years (with no…
Legal Tweet of the Day: August 18, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Florida court denies pregnant teen’s request to waive legal guardian consent for abortion #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN https://cnn.it/3wfm5Au – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
The Devil In Ms. Jones
To those 57% who couldn’t rouse themselves to vote in the last Ontario election, please do not make sounds of outrage over the likelihood that Doug Ford will introduce more…
thoughts on privilege: using less oxygen in the room
Many years ago, at one of our wmtc parties, I was chatting with a new guest, the spouse of a friend. We had never met before, and they didn’t know…
Utopian musings on an endangered world
Seen off the road near Murdo, South Dakota. Photo by Susan Lueck/Flickr. Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan To Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics by Drew Pendergrass and…
Biden’s wrong about Israel—it’s absolutely an apartheid state
The Wailing Wall with the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the background, Jerusalem. Photo from Flickr. When President Biden met with caretaker Israeli Prime Minister Yair…