The Loonies Were In Charge
Rudy Giuliani was Donald Trump’s most trusted advisor. And Giuliani was too well lubricated to advise anyone. That’s one of the conclusions you have to reach after watching yesterday’s hearing…
2022
Australia Taking Action on Climate Change
Australia (like Canada) has a well-deserved reputation of being a laggard on climate issues and being one of the worst polluters on the planet. The recent Australian election results will…
Patrick Provokes Pierre.
All is not too friendly in the federal Conservative camp these days. Patrick Brown is bad-mouthing Pierre Poilievre. And this is not friendly banter between two gentlemen who both served…
Alberta pulls plug on efforts to control COVID-19; Rajan Sawhney quits cabinet, joins race to replace Jason Kenney
One minute before midnight tonight, the United Conservative Party Government will pull the plug on all public health measures intended to slow the spread of COVID-19, even as the disease…
Funny stuff
Just a random collection of funny stuff tonight So who knew there could be TWO ranked bulldogs in North American Diving Dogs? But here is one of them, Chewy! This…
Is Google’s LaMDA Sentient?
The transcript of a conversation with Google’s LaMDA AI project escaped into the wild this week, and has created much buzz around the creation of a “human-like” intelligence. First, there…
Unpublished TV: who will lead the Tories?
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#SKNDPLDR Roundup
Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership race continues toward convention day on the 26th. And it’s starting to get somewhat more attention outside of core party circles – though it’s unfortunately too late…
Running Mojolicious in a Docker Container
Mojolicious is a real-time Perl-based web framework that can be used for writing modern web applications. Today in an episode of Stephen Follows Instructions I took it out for a…
Plague Update: PM Trudeau Has COVID-19 Again
The PM got COVID by going to the Americas summit in the USA recently. I’ve tested positive for COVID-19. I’ll be following public health guidelines and isolating. I feel okay,…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Allison Jones reports that Ontario is working on a new round of COVID booster shots for the fall (while so many other jurisdictions…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 13, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: More than one million Canadians have to repay CERB — and in some cases EI is being clawed back to do it #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3xMolR3 –…
This Electric Truck Sees You
@TfL statistics show that 26% of pedestrian fatalities involve a conventional truck, yet they only account for 4% of road miles. One of the ways we maximise visibility is to…
Refusing To Accept Reality
Andrew Nikiforuk writes that we are trapped between two false narratives: We are now trapped in what I have called “the poverty of two narratives” that pits the business-as-usual crowd…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of June 13, 2022
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of June 13, 2022
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of June 13, 2022 from Wise Law on Twitter: Elon Musk threatens to abandon bid to buy Twitter over fake account…
Ukraine war: When you are in a hole, stop digging
A Ukrainian soldier carries a Javelin anti-tank missile through a trench in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Photo courtesy the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine/Facebook. From…
Democracy is fragile
Government by the people for the people is more myth than reality in Canada and in the politically troubled country south of here. We cannot talk about our governments being…
“What Fools These Mortals Be!”
The hue and cry might now be more complete. The Toronto Star has discovered that only about 18 per cent of our Ontario electorate voted for the Ford government’s majority.…
Today’s News: Update on the Russia Ukraine War
I haven’t seen as much about the Russia Ukraine War lately. So tonight I wanted to highlight some recent tweets and articles to summarize the situation: Latest Defence Intelligence update…