Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
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2022
The one and only Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commissioner
Sophie Howe is unique—the world’s only Future Generations Commissioner. What, you might well ask, is a Future Generations Commissioner. Her function, according to her website, “is to provide advice to…
July 17: Montreal March for Status for All [Solidarity Across Borders]
Montreal March for Status for All Sunday, 17 July 2022 2pm at Place Emilie Gamelin (Berri UQAM metro) As the federal government is in the process of developing a regularization…
My latest: JC, come back
Where have the political leaders gone? The federal ones, that is. The national ones. The ones who are supposed to be leading this country, and other countries. National leadership —…
Legal Tweet of the Day: July 12, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Elon Musk hits back at Twitter court threat #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN https://cnn.it/3atG9Yw – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Yasmine Ghania reports on the wastewater analyses showing that Saskatchewan is facing a new COVID-19 wave. Ed Yong discusses how the BA.5…
2 Tn (USD). That’s Real Money.
The US has caused roughly two trillion dollars in greenhouse gas emissions related damages since 1990. The huge volume of planet-heating gases pumped out by the US, the largest historical…
The causes and consequences of the Ukraine war
“No Putin. No War.” Street art by Plan B. Photo by rajatonvimma/Flickr. This is the full text of a speech given on June 16 by John J. Mearsheimer at the…
Hello, It’s Me, the Invisible Hand of the Marketplace.
Last Friday’s fiasco with Rogers network sure caused a ruckus for the cashless society. Merchants posted makeshift cardboard signs on their front doors warning customers they better have a valid…
Rae On Orwell
Bob Rae writes that these days he has turned once again to the works of George Orwell to understand what is happening: I began reading the works of George Orwell…
Violence is widespread and growing in Ontario health care
Contrary to popular perception, there are more assaults in hospitals than in any other industry. Long-term are facilities are also major site for assaults. Health care as a whole has…
On Choosing Leaders.
I’ve got a novel idea. Let’s choose the next liberal party leader for Ontario with an honest election. It might even be precedent setting. What I would suggest is an…
Today’s News: Finally!
Well, finally. Somebody in the White House seems to have taken charge of the abortion issue — maybe Harris, maybe Becerra, maybe Biden himself — and this is actually getting…
One Party, Two Guv’nors! Dispute over who leads Alberta’s Wildrose Independence Party continues
The internal battle over who leads the Wildrose Independence Party of Alberta continues, with former Wildrose Party MLA Paul Hinman insisting he’s still leader and the party’s board saying he’s…
Is it just me?
Okay, does this guy look like a Bond villain?
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Farah Hancock offers an informative look at the circumstances where people are most likely to share air in ways that results in COVID…
A Plague of Willful Incompetence
This The Tyee article, “Get Ready for the Forever Plague,” by Andrew Nikiforuk, hits all the important notes about our ongoing pandemic. He says that we’re dealing with a “plague…
things i heard at the library: an occasional series: #34
A customer said this. I tell my daughter I love her every day. I told my mother on her death bed, I’m not going to do what you did. I’m…
things i heard at the library: an occasional series: #33
As I sat down to write this, I searched for the last “things i heard at the library” post, to get the number. Amazingly, today’s post turns out to be…
Legal Tweet of the Day: July 11, 2022
#legaltweetoftheday: Rogers CEO and other telecom execs summoned to meet with industry minister after outage #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3apPSPz – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…