Today’s News: "A new day is dawning"
After the world bore witness to the unmarked graves of Indigenous children in the thousands last year & ongoing searches, the time has come 2 an doorway 2 healing. Finally…
2022
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good – CBC’s Canada Reads winner – leads independent bookshops’ fiction bestseller list
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, March 27, 2022. The lists are compiled…
Musical interlude
Kavinsky feat. Kareen Lomax – Cameo
Lawyer’s Daily: Bernier gets slapped by Kinsella and Daisy
“The that Bernier’s action had been brought for an extraneous purpose and to punish Kinsella…Bernier was slapped with an order requiring him to pay Kinsella costs in the amount of…
My latest Sun Media hit: if this was a dictatorship, this video wouldn’t exist
Latest Sun Media hit: Is Trudeau A Dictator? Kinsella: It's Not That Black And White! https://t.co/KzYm13EWvE via @TheTorontoSun @nelliebranco — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 1, 2022 The post My latest…
My latest: a Catholic confession
So, I’m Catholic. Irish Catholic, in fact. Every Irish Catholic knows what that means, pretty much. Uncles who were priests, aunts who were nuns, Church every Sunday, the sacraments, all…
Legal Tweet of the Day: April 1, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Pope apologizes to indigenous people of Canada #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN https://cnn.it/3DuczMi – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Nicola Davis writes about the large number of people getting reinfected with COVID in the UK, while Andrew Gregory reports on new research…
Ford And Profit
When it comes to COVID, Doug Ford says he’s opening up Ontario. When it comes to health-care, Bob Hepburn writes, Ford is opening up our health-care system to privatization: Since…
April Fools, not
There’s a deadly virus that has killed millions, sickened millions more, and our response is to drop measures that stop its spread, and to believe lies about the vaccines that…
Canada’s spiralling cost of living crisis
Photo by Andrei Tselichtchev/Dreamstime As we purportedly emerge from the pandemic, one of the immediate challenges that confronts us is a global cost of living crisis. There has been a…
Out of the Warm.
There were royals in the Caribbean last month. Future King William of England and his consort Catherine visited Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas as a sort of farewell tour. All…
Today’s News: Walking Together
Tonight, I decided to start with this outstanding photo from Alessandra Tarantino, AP, as the visit to the Vatican of Canadian First Nations, Metis and Inuit representatives for healing and…
Alberta to ban all public wearing of COVID masks, establish tip line, and fine violators $99
Alberta will take the next step today in its transition to the elimination of all public COVID-19 restrictions by banning the use of cloth and paper face masks in public…
Impossible dreams: Former Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith says she’ll seek UCP leadership if Jason Kenney loses party vote
She’s baaaack! Apparently Danielle Smith – the other former leader of the Wildrose Party – has made it official that she intends to make a run to lead the United…
Americans and big lies
Watching “The Plan to Overturn the Election” on American public TV’s Frontline the other evening, I was once again amazed by how many people can believe a lie that is…
Platinum Jubilee in March
Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan will issue Platinum Jubilee Medals The government of Nova Scotia has announced that it will be issuing its own Platinum Jubilee Medal. More info can be…
Ottawa’s Splendid Greenwash
The devil, as usual, is in the details. There was plenty of bombast today in Ottawa as the Trudeau government announced bold targets to cut Canadian CO2 emissions by 45…
How a global ‘climate non-cooperation campaign’ could strike at the heart of fossil capital
Demonstration during the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, in Copenhagen, Denmark, December 17, 2009. Photo by Kris Krüg/Flickr. The latest report of the…