How Secure is Canada’s Bountiful Fresh Water Resource?
We think of Canada as a vast land studded with lakes assuring a bountiful supply of fresh water.Things change.Across the high north, lakes are vanishing - much faster than we…
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How Secure is Canada’s Bountiful Fresh Water Resource?
We think of Canada as a vast land studded with lakes assuring a bountiful supply of fresh water.Things change.Across the high north, lakes are vanishing - much faster than we…
How Secure is Canada’s Bountiful Fresh Water Resource?
We think of Canada as a vast land studded with lakes assuring a bountiful supply of fresh water. Things change. Across the high north, lakes are vanishing – much faster…
Today’s tonic from writer John Ivison: “Pierre Poilievre should know better than to tear down Canadian institutions”
Today’s tonic from writer John Ivison: “@PierrePoilievre should know better than to tear down Canadian institutions…The new authoritarians are not to be found in Ottawa or Washington, but they are…
Camping and Biking Anticosti Island – A Guide
Anticosti Island is a large but mostly uninhabited island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Covered with subarctic pine and spruce forest, inhabited by hundreds of thousands of deer, and…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Megan Ogilvie and Kenyon Wallace interview public health experts about the steps they’re taking to stay safe as students return to school and…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 7, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Judge Unseats New Mexico Official Who Trespassed at Capitol on Jan. 6 #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://nyti.ms/3ey3zh3 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Estate Tax
There are 3 basic ways in which most simple Estates may be required to pay taxes. 1. If all or part of your state is being submitted to Probate, you’ll…
The Cowards Who Walk Amongst Us
In my view, there are few things more vicious, contemptable and cowardly than directing threats and abuse at journalists. That viciousness and cowardice is compounded by the fact that most…
Testing Our Common Courtesy
Andrea Mandel-Campbell wonders if Pierre Poilievre will be devoured by the tiger he has unleashed: Like the dwarves who dug too deep for riches in the mines of Moria, Poilievre…
Today’s News: Still at large
We are now in Day 3 following the Saskatchewan massacre and Myles Sanderson is still at large: JUST IN: Mass killing suspect Myles Sanderson is not hiding at #JamesSmithCreeNation, @rcmpgrcpolice…
Is Conservative Winter Coming?
In viewing the Netflix Game of Thrones, I always felt the chill in the dire prediction that Winter was coming. In a mix of medieval knights, giants and fire breathing…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Centre of attention cats.
Can Pierre Poilievre Control His Convoy Crazies?
I can only imagine how pleased Pierre Poilievre must have been, to be the first Con to welcome the far-right truckers to Ottawa. He cheered their arrival, he defended their…
Theory and homelessness
I’m writing an open access e-textbook on homelessness. Chapter 2, focused on theory, has just been published. The full chapter is available here: https://nickfalvo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Falvo-Chapter-2-Theory-and-homelessness-19aug2022.pdf A ‘top 10’ overview of the…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Bruce Arthur laments the message being sent by Ontario’s government that there’s no need to care about other people in the face…
A perfect storm of the apocalypse
Image by Vadim Sadovski/Shutterstock “There is a tide in the affairs of men.” -William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar Not only is there a tide in human affairs, but there is actual…
Should We Prune Vancouver’s Park Board?
Some see it as a way to pursue ‘innovative’ governance practices. Others say it’s a ‘democratic vestigial tail.’Christopher Cheung 6 Sep 2022 TheTyee.caThere’s a unique kind of politics that exists…
Should We Prune Vancouver’s Park Board?
Some see it as a way to pursue ‘innovative’ governance practices. Others say it’s a ‘democratic vestigial tail.’Christopher Cheung 6 Sep 2022 TheTyee.caThere’s a unique kind of politics that exists…
Should We Prune Vancouver’s Park Board?
Some see it as a way to pursue ‘innovative’ governance practices. Others say it’s a ‘democratic vestigial tail.’ Christopher Cheung 6 Sep 2022 TheTyee.ca There’s a unique kind of politics…