Low Intensity Farming Gets High Results
Everybody knows that factory farming isn’t a sustainable use of land, but it’s still be practised because people think it’s more efficient. It turns out that low intensity farming produces…
December 2022
It’s Here
Canada is heading for a constitutional crisis. The governments of Quebec, Alberta, and Ontario have been flexing their muscles. Andrew Coyne has had enough: What should the federal government do…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Can I make my own Will using an online form?
Beware. If you use an online form instead of a lawyer: 1. You aren’t getting personalized advice from a lawyer who has assessed your needs and interests. 2. Nobody is…
Texts for leninists with an anti-authoritarian critique of leninism, and for anarchists with a pro-rev critique of anarchism
The anarchists’ slogan, “Destroy what destroys you,” is aimed at mobilizing the base, young people in prisons and reformatories, in high schools and training centres. It reaches out to all…
At Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung’s 10th anniversary conference
In October, the New York office of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung celebrated its 10th year of operation. CD columnist and editor André Frappier was there. Photo by Behance. The Rosa…
This Tory is Trouble.
Maybe I come from the wrong era. I come from a time when you could be friends with conservatives. I always enjoyed sparring with the late Dalton Camp. He might…
Problems with IHRA
After receiving literally hundreds of emails on this topic, starting before I was even elected, I watched this excellent panel discussion tonight about IHRA presented by Independent Jewish Voices Canada,…
Yes, Virginia, Supermarket Profits HAVE Expanded
Supermarket executives were up on Parliament Hill this week, appearing before the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food’s inquiry into food inflation grocery chain profits. They repeated the now-familiar argument…
Complete Chaos
A UK journalist wrote about the recent death of a 9-year-old girl in BC. He intersperses his thread with parts from this article, but I just included his commentary and…
Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment
This book, Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment, is online for free. It was written a year ago, but still applies today. I just read chapter 5 so far, as it was shared…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Belinda Smith writes about the effect COVID-19 has on the immune system – including its making subsequent infections more severe. Karen Landman makes…
How Bad Does It Have to Get??
I’m not sure what it will take to wake people up to the tragedy we’re wading through right now enough to slap on a mask whenever they leave the house,…
Legal Tweet of the Day: December 7, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Trump Organization convicted in executive tax dodge scheme #law #legal #lawtwitter via @Yahoo https:yhoo.it/3VT87ia – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
The Benefits of Free Transit
he benefits of free transit helps more than just riders, it can help a whole city. We already give free road access to car owners and provide them with rights…
Magpie Brûlé is Dead! Long Live Magpie Brûlé!
Time for a New Start It’s been a while folks and it’s been quite the year here in 2022. While it’s still not done, there have been a lot of…
Next to starting a war, the worst thing is to keep it going
Soldiers from the 53rd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, currently deployed in Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk. Photo courtesy the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine/Twitter. The complex nature of the…
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…
Workers and Robots
Will robots replace workers? Paul Krugman’s answer to that question is yes and no: At the level of the economy as a whole, the verdict is clear: So far, machines…
Doug Ford’s trashing of the Greenbelt
Changes to Ontario’s Greenbelt Act are in the works that would remove 7,400 acres of protected land and hand them over to developers. Photo courtesy Greenbelt.ca. In Toronto, even though…
In Tehran they use batons, in Rojhelat they use bullets
Protestors in Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province, Iran, November 16, 2022. Image courtesy of Hengaw. Since the start of the ongoing protest movement in Iran inspired by the murder…