Welcome Back Chrystia.
It looks like the kids have forgotten their manners since finance minister Chrystia Freeland was at home in Alberta. For someone to accost her and spew invective at her is…
2022
Just following up ….
Tonight, just some follow-ups on some of the stuff I talked about earlier this week: More on conspiracy theories and rage farming: Unbelievable. Do conspiracy theories cluster? Um, yep. –…
Musical interlude
CHVRCHES – Asking For A Friend
Eating off the Hill: Ein gutes deutsches Essen bei SchnitzelWorks — schnitzel lunch!
I again found myself with a rental car today before I head out of town for the long weekend tomorrow, and so my thoughts of course turned to where can…
Canada-Russia ’72: When Canada stopped
Today, September 2nd, marks the 50th anniversary of Game 1 of the Canada-Russia Summit Series, the single greatest sporting event of all time. An exaggeration? I don’t think so. Just…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Martha Lincoln writes about the needless harm caused by public health messaging about being people being “tired” of pandemic precautions which many (if…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 2, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: President Biden warns Trump, allies threaten democracy #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CityNewsTO https://bit.ly/3wQMPb5 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
The Politics of Inflation
If democracy is always a battle for who decides, the powerful few or the many, inflation is the current battleground. And what we are getting is what we have been…
Alarm Bells Should Go Off
Millions of Americans claim to be Christians. But what they profess bears little resemblance to the teachings of Christ. Michael Gerson writes: They fear their values are under assault by…
What Is Wrong With People?
It is a question I have asked myself on an almost daily basis these past few years, and it is the question TizzyEnt asks here: Recommend this Post
Canada’s home energy retrofit funding woefully inadequate
Suburbs in Toronto. Photo by Jan Buchholtz. Retrofitting existing buildings is one of the only tools for mitigating climate change that virtually everyone can agree on. There are large numbers…
Old School, Eh!
Say what you like about us older Canadians, but ours were the golden years. I will never forget the convenience of getting a passport for the wife overnight. And I…
Today’s News: Dark Brandon rises
At first I wasn’t sure whether Biden’s speech tonight was a good idea. But seeing the speech and now the reaction to it, I am feeling a very positive vibe.…
Troubling information from recent public disclosures
BC’s Auditor General says the 2022 surplus would be $6.5 billion higher if government followed Canadian Public Sector Accounting Standards. The surplus would have been $8 billion had government also…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 1, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Health Canada set to announce approval of Moderna vaccine for Omicron variant: sources #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3TuEwLP – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rachel Aiello reports on Health Canada’s approval of COVID booster vaccines targeted at the Omicron variants. And Andrew Romano discusses the hope…
Creepy
Wasn’t Socrates executed for corrupting the youth? Courting a child wearing Minnie Mouse ears sets my ‘Spidey sense’ tingling. H/t The Salamander Horde Recommend this Post
On Peanut Butter and Covid in Schools
A woman on twitter posted an unfortunate tweet, I assumed satirically, that a good solution to keep immunocompromised kids safe from Covid while they eat lunch indoors is to send…
Ancient Election Wisdom
I recently came across this piece by Marcus Tullius Cicero (one of my favourite classical authors) on the Sententiae Antiquae website (a good source of classical Latin and Greek translations),…