How To Be A Good Canadian
With so much going on domestically and abroad, there is no dearth of topics to write about. However, with Thanksgiving fast approaching, perhaps a timely, gentle reminder from Brittlestar of…
2022
Flooding a Slovakian Forest to Improve it
The good folks at Mossy Earth are flooding a forest in Slovakia, and it’s to protect the environment. You might think that flooding a forest would be a bad thing…
Legault’s Victory
The Quebec election confirms that things have changed since we lived there. Forty years ago, the battlelines were between the Liberals and the Parti-Quebecois. Now four provincial parties duke it…
Troubled Paradise.
It was a triumvirate of Bitove, Rivett and Peterson. The two young entrepreneurs and their eminence gris, David Peterson, the former premier of Ontario. Jordan Bitove, fresh from his family’s…
From the Bookmarks
Just a random selection of stuff tongiht. First, I just cannot understand why anyone in Florida would still vote Republican. Here is what the Hurricane Ian storm surge looked like,…
A cunning plan
Gaining billions of dollars, with a promise of $50 billion more, by selling an unneeded product to a single customer for a multiple of market value ought to earn IPPs…
Time to hit the oil companies up for some clean-up money?
The oil companies are rolling in it. According to the Pembina Institute their free cash flow will add up to $153-billion this year, the highest level of profits they have…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Huddled cats.
Turnstile HC
@TURNSTILEHC have become a big deal. pic.twitter.com/GzwvruiP4y — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 5, 2022
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ryan Tumilty reports on research showing how many Canadian lives may have been saved by COVID protection measures – making for a…
My latest: renounce and denounce. It’s easy.
When a bad person supports you, what should you do? Well, if you’re a normal human, you say you don’t want or need the support of the bad person, and…
Legal Tweet of the Day: October 4, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Trump sues CNN over ‘libel and slander’ claims, vows lawsuits against other outlets #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3M4pIQq – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
Tax Fairness?
A recent report highlights how little Canada’s biggest corporations are paying in taxes. Fares Alghoul writes: Canada’s largest corporations are making record profits and paying income tax at record-low rates,…
Canada voices approval of IMF austerity program in Zambia
Photo by Cliff Owen/IMF/Flickr On June 26, 2022, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema. According to the prime minister’s office, the two leaders discussed the “close…
US hedge fund bet on Canadian newspapers may be about to pay off big
The hedge fund bet on Canadian newspapers will pay off big if Ottawa passes Bill C-18, the Online News Act, writes journalism researcher and author Marc Edge. Photo from Flickr.…
Dreamed-of Day-Care.
It looks like out of all his missteps over the summer the most serious for Ontario parents was when premier Doug Ford gave the $10-A-Day Care file to MPP Stephen…
Today’s News: Playing nuclear chicken?
Well, this is terrifying, isn’t it? It sounds like Russia is getting set to try to play a game of Nuclear Chicken with Ukraine and the west: It comes as…
Jason Kenney took months to become as unpopular as he is; Danielle Smith is poised to get there overnight!
It took Premier Jason Kenney a couple of years and plenty of fallout from a deadly pandemic and a series of policy flops to become the most unpopular provincial politician…
Politics and the gender gap
What is the political contest about in this country. Conservatives vs. progressives? Conservatives vs. Liberals? Or men vs. women? A recent survey by the Angus Reid Institute suggests the latter…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Ed Yong writes that the tragic legacy of the COVID-19 is one of policymakers repeating (and indeed increasing) the same mistakes at the…