The Flight From Knowledge
There is never a moment in my post-teaching life when I have regretted retiring. The paperwork was bad enough, but in the latter part of my career, the politics were…
September 2022
In yesterday walks tomorrow
The people saying Putin won’t ever use nuclear weapons are the same people who said he wouldn’t ever invade Ukraine. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September 21, 2022
Open Source Tracking of Fossil Fuels Companies
Information is power, and the fossil fuel companies don’t want anyone but them to have power. They have lied to governments, manipulated political parties, and publicly deny their actions are…
Food Insecurity
Food Insecurity has become a major problem for millions of Canadians. Armine Yalnizyan writes: Almost six million people were food insecure last year in Canada. More than a third of…
Gustavo Petro’s environmental protection plans face pushback from extractive companies
Colombian President Gustavo Petro at his inauguration on August 7, 2022. Photo courtesy USAID/Flickr. The progressive Colombian government of Gustavo Petro is drafting legislation that, if enacted, will require mining…
Ford Forges On.
It really is amazing. How come so many smart people in Ontario can elect such a dumb-ass premier? He really is, you know. Doug Ford would have difficulty finding a…
Former justice minister Kaycee Madu declares fealty to UCP frontrunner Danielle Smith by hailing convoy blockaders
You’ve got to hand it to Kaycee Madu, the only United Conservative Party MLA in Edmonton and for a little while at least Alberta’s minister of labour, the man’s got…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Outstretched cats.
Latest: free Ukraine!
New one. FREE UKRAINE pic.twitter.com/TSvl0sNdcx — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September 20, 2022
My latest: thunderbolts and lighting, very very irritating
The biggest televised event in human history, it is suggested, was Monday’s funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. The biggest social media event in the past week, it is speculated, was…
Therapy + Cash = Lower Crime
It’s a simple equation which may sound obvious to some and bizarre to others. Our current approach to crime focusses on punishment and repression, and that clearly doesn’t work given…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emily Alpert Reyes and Aida Ylanan discuss COVID’s continued toll in lives and health even as the people in power seek to…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 20, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Canada Revenue Agency sending flood of letters asking people who received both EI and CERB to pay the extra back #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3SmfaOv – Garry J.…
New documents reveal callousness of fossil fuel execs—and Canada’s complicity
“The Shell Skull” by Andreas Metz. Photo by Andreas Metz/Flickr. The United States House Committee on Oversight and Reform just held the third hearing of its investigation into the fossil…
The Gun We Point at Our Own Heads
If you're sitting at a table and there's a loaded pistol in front of you, do you pick it up and point it at your own head? Probably not, unless…
The Gun We Point at Our Own Heads
If you're sitting at a table and there's a loaded pistol in front of you, do you pick it up and point it at your own head? Probably not, unless…
The Gun We Point at Our Own Heads
If you’re sitting at a table and there’s a loaded pistol in front of you, do you pick it up and point it at your own head? Probably not, unless…
Troll Busted
So I’m hearing tonight that the hateful and cowardly reign of terror of one of Saskatchewan’s most vile troll accounts is finally over. And if it’s true that the person…
Ends And Means
If you’ve been following the comments at this site, you will notice that I have received a lot of blowback on my post about migrants being trafficked to Martha’s Vineyard.…
Hospital, long-term care funding cut by the Ford Conservative government
The Financial Accountability Office has released the Ford PC government’s funding plans for the various health care sub-sectors. The news is not good. The funding plans for 2022/3 in several…