CBC: Engaging in Click Bait?
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2022
Carbon-Capture Conservatives.
It is becoming obvious now that carbon-based fuels exploiters in Canada are going to hang their hats on carbon-capture technologies—if they can just get governments to pay for it. For…
Today’s news: Ferocious Fiona
It’s been a terrible night and day in Atlantic Canada as they grapple with that bitch Fiona: Ferocious #Fiona, from the #Caribbean to #Canada pic.twitter.com/SriO3U2WhO — Stu Ostro (@StuOstro) September…
Climate talk
Climate Uncensored provides information, commentary and assessment of the scale of the climate challenge and our responses to it. In this video, young activist Greta Thunberg and climate scientist Professor…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about immunologist Chris Goodnow’s belated recognition that COVID isn’t over only after he was hit with acute myocarditis, while Korin…
Exceptions to the Law?
There seems to be a whiff of hypocrisy in the fall air this year. And it is also tinged with the greasy odour of entitlement. You see, there are rules…
The Perfect Fake Independence
The other day I was browsing facebook posts in an online caregiver support group when I read, "My mother was living the perfect life of fake independence when she fell…
The Perfect Fake Independence
The other day I was browsing facebook posts in an online caregiver support group when I read, “My mother was living the perfect life of fake independence when she fell…
Emma meets Fiona
Woot! Heard from Daughter. They’re in a Giant Tiger parking lot in Halifax and okay. No power but okay. I told them to go get a Scrabble game because that’s…
Pure Theatre
Following in the steps of the Orange Jesus, the Conservatives have gone to war with the media. Bruce Arthur writes: First, let’s all hope Garnett Genuis is OK. You would…
Trudeau Sings?
We obviously have a multi-talented prime minister. It turns out he can sing as well as do blackface. Or was this a complaint about his singing? I know how it…
From the Bookmarks
Well, the great Roger Federer played his last match today – it wasn’t “one for the ages” but it was pretty nice, a doubles with Nadal at the Laver Cup…
Danielle Smith’s dead political career? It’s alive … with a vengeance! But what fresh disaster looms?
This week politically attentive Albertans began to realize that Danielle Smith really is likely to win the United Conservative Party leadership race and will soon be sworn in as premier…
Musical interlude
Men I Trust – Sugar
People asked what I think. Here’s what I think.
I support trans people without qualification. Without qualification, I also support never sexualizing kids, or caricaturing women’s bodies, or turning classrooms into places where the priority – the kids –…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Sarah Zhang discusses the absurdity of treating the COVID pandemic as being over when it’s causing more death and illness than ever, while…
This Is Hilarious, But Will The Intended Targets Get It?
Sometimes, humour is the best weapon. If you are sensitive to coarse language, do not watch. Otherwise, enjoy this rejoinder to the TrudeauMustGo hashtag and those who embrace it. H/t…
The amazing Mr. Madu
Jason Kenney warned us. Prior to stepping down as premier, he suggested it was important he stay on to prevent the UCP from being taken over by “lunatics” and “kooky…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 23, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Canada’s PM Trudeau supports ending mandatory COVID-19 vaccination rules at border #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVToronto https://bit.ly/3R2tU4l – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Pandemic vs Endemic
Why Covid is now being called endemic instead of pandemic, and why that’s even worse: TL/DR: Endemic means we’ve plateaued instead of having sudden waves of cases over and over.…