A tale of two magazines
Last month one of Alberta’s conservative icons passed away. Ted Byfield was 93. Byfield, a propagandist for social conservative causes and a promoter of conservative parties and politicians (including Premier…
2022
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. The Climate Crisis as Satire.
In 2006 we considered Idiocracy over-the-top satire. Today some people think it’s a documentary. Today we’re churning out movies that satirize climate breakdown. Which films kept you entertained over the…
Hatred, fear, lies…
I'm going to write a blog that I really don't want to write. It's about our news media and what digusting but deliberate lies they tell. I'm afraid it's also…
George Monbiot, Film Reviewer
The Guardian’s venerable eco-scribe, George Monbiot, has branched out into movie reviews. Singular. He’s only reviewing the one, DiCaprio’s latest, “Don’t Look Up.” For George, Don’t Look Up is art…
Hatred, fear, lies…
I’m going to write a blog that I really don’t want to write. It’s about our news media and what digusting but deliberate lies they tell. I’m afraid it’s also…
Women in Peril?
Hard to believe. Women undergoing surgery might do better with a woman’s hand wielding the scalpel. Women who are operated on by a male surgeon are much more likely to…
Hydrogen Bikes. Yamaha and Kawasaki Collaborate on New Motorcycle Engine
This is already sounding too good to be true. Two of Japan’s top motorcycle makers are developing a hydrogen-fueled engine for future bikes. Hydrogen is seen as a clean fuel…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 4, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: How one B.C. woman’s fall in a roadside snowbank could push Toronto to get serious about sidewalk snow clearing #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar – Garry J. Wise, Toronto…
Third Time Is Not Always The Charm
Somehow, this editorial cartoon speaks to me. H/t Michael de Adder Recommend this Post
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Shree Paradkar laments the folly of making the same mistakes over and over again throughout the course of a continuing pandemic, while…
Never argue with a woman who reads.
Originally published on Facebook One morning a husband returns to the cabin after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap. Although not familiar with the lake, the…
The settler colonial origins of the Five Eyes alliance
A depiction of the Battle of Amoy, fought between British and Chinese forces during the First Opium War. Painting by Michael Angelo Hayes/Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection/Wikimedia Commons. Amid…
LTC Homes: Ownership Matters
Nancy Olivieri, Michael Hurley, Vivian Stamatopoulos, and Natalie Mehra explained Doug Ford’s sneaky passing of Bill 37 just before Christmas in today’s Toronto Star. They warn, “Hope to live out…
Overwhelmed
One step forward and two steps backward. When it comes to COVID, that’s the pattern. Ontario is once again repeating that pattern. Bruce Arthur writes: Four days after the chief…
The Business of Business.
It has too often been said that the business of business is to make money. That is foolish and incorrect. The only rationale for any business is that it meets…
Don’t imagine UCP’s Eastern Slopes coal mining plans have gone away – Jason Kenney still has his eyes on that prize
The plan to approve coal developments on the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains is another thing that remains on the United Conservative Party’s agenda – if not for 2022,…
A Happy New Year for the American military
Santa was good to the U.S. armed forces. On December 27th President Biden signed a defence bill for nearly $770-billion. This was $24-billion more than he had asked for, but…
On voluntary efforts
The past few days have seen the emergence of an effort to build up self-reporting capacity to fill in where provincial governments are choosing to be wilfully blind to COVID…
Rumours of Coups
I’m getting weary of the recent deluge of articles and op-eds about secessionism in America, nascent civil war, violent unrest. Then I came across a piece in today’s Guardian written…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 3, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario moves school online, closes indoor dining and gyms as part of sweeping new COVID-19 measures #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…