Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ed Yong laments the U.S.’ particularly dangerous spin through the pandemic cycle of panic and neglect as it is eliminating all federal funding…
2022
Council’s Abject Failure Over Water
You may have learned from our local media that the new water treatment plant costs have doubled to almost $121 million — suggesting massive increases in your water bill and…
Legal Tweet of the Day: March 18, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Canadian law school mistakenly informed student’s family that she had died #law #legal #lawtwitter via @ABAJournal https://bit.ly/3ijWbV0 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Empathetic Failures in Manitoba
We’re living in rough times to say the least, and as much as things seem to be changing around us, some things continue on as they have before. One of…
Impunity And Justice
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine must not go unpunished. E.J. Dionne writes: The trial of human decency the world is looking at now should have been obvious long ago. It…
Ukraine is at the centre of a superpower proxy war
Soldier of the special regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine during a march in honour of the Day of the Defender of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2020. Photo by spoilt.exile/Flickr. The…
it’s all about respect: why the librarians of vancouver island are taking job action
I have at least five posts in the works, but zero time to write them, because I am once again involved in a job action for library workers. I have…
Genocide in Ukraine.
The world quivers in its warm foxholes while Vladimir Putin commits genocide in Ukraine. He tested the world on the Crimea. Nobody did anything. Words were wasted. Protestations were not…
Ammolite, soon to be yet another official Alberta emblem, even comes with a cryptocurrency angle!
“Ammolite is an important part of our heritage and economy,” Ron Orr said yesterday in the Kenney Government’s news release announcing that the little-known gemstone would soon become one of…
Today’s News: Reality bites
Photos from the Russia Ukraine War are striking and memorable, so I am planning to post some daily. This Reuters photo of a woman carrying her cat to safety is…
Say hello to Russian gold and Chinese petroyuan
The end of the petrodollar is at hand, and that is the certified nail in the coffin of the indispensable hegemony of the United States, writes Pepe Escobar. Photo from…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tim Loh discusses how Europe’s premature end to public health measures is resulting in another COVID wave. Lei Lei Wu notes that…
Legal Tweet of the Day: March 17, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Global rise in COVID-19 cases is ‘tip of the iceberg,’ WHO warns #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Revisiting our secret role in Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution
On November 22, 2004, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians took to the streets in protest of the elections that took place that year. Photo courtesy the National News Agency of…
Canada’s Trump
Andrew Coyne writes that, among the Conservative leadership hopefuls, Pierre Poilievre is clearly a northern Trump: Bear in mind that, according to a recent Leger poll, 44 per cent of…
Canadians Need to Know Snow-washing
Us Canadians need to live up to the stereotype that we are a nice, peaceful, and safe country. Clearly the so-called trucker protest tarnished our reputation, but in financial circles…
Sometimes I Am In Awe
As bad as the world is these days, there are people in it that prevent us from complete despair. Maina Ovsyannikova is one such person. You will recall she risked…
Today’s News: The worst option except for all the others
I got the impression for the first time today that more Canadians and Americans are finally realizing that the Russia Ukraine War might not just be another far-away war we…
Brown’s Broader Bailiwick.
Patrick Brown is in the race for the conservative party’s federal leadership. He told the media and some supporters the other day that he is going to restore the credibility…
Guest post by Bradley Lafortune: It really is time for Alberta to end the fiscal insanity and get off the revenue rollercoaster
By Bradley Lafortune In quiet Zoom meetings of economists and energy analysts around the province you can almost hear the murmurs: “Fiscal insanity … again!” But there is hope, however…