Just a reminder…
During this 2022 municipal election campaign, I will also be posting on my campaign website blog with short pieces about local issues, events, policies, elections, and my vision for Collingwood.…
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Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bedir Alihsan et al. examine the effectiveness of face masks in preventing COVID-19 infections in both health care and community settings. And…
Legal Tweet of the Day: August 4, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay:Toronto General Hospital under critical care bed alert amid staff shortages #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVToronto https://bit.ly/3QjbNqF – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
On Showing My Cards
I’m showing them!! People keep telling me not to let people know what I stand for until after the election, and that doesn’t sit well with me. Others have told…
Top Tools for Learning 2022
It’s that time of the year again when educators and developers send their list of top tools to Jane Hart. You can see my full list of web-based tools and…
Pro-golfers dirty themselves by taking blood money from Saudi Arabia
The new Saudi-financed LIV Golf series has been fraught with controversy. Photo courtesy Front Office Sports. When a golfer hits an errant shot that might bonk an unsuspecting spectator on…
UN chief says ‘grotesque’ fossil fuel greed punishing the poor, destroying planet
UN Secretary-General António Guterres at a press conference in Geneva. Photo by UNHCR/Flickr. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres unveiled a new report Wednesday about the global effects of Russia’s invasion…
Wisdom And Common Sense
Jean Charest tried to make the case last night that he is the best person to lead the Conservative Party. Althia Raj writes: The former Quebec premier and current Conservative…
The Anger and the Anguish.
Canada is caught in the maelstrom. We are trapped between rage and remission, revocation and respite. The pandemic has taken its revenge in the destruction of our hospital services, the…
Today’s News: Here’s another fine mess
I seldom pay much attention to the latest right-wing anti-Liberal hate-fest — from SNC Lavelin to WE, they started out with the Trudeau government looking awful while the national media…
‘I did not authorize or approve this payment,’ says former finance minister of Deena Hinshaw’s 63% bonus
Are we really supposed to believe that Alberta’s Finance minister was never told about the chief medical officer of health’s 63 per cent bonus? Seriously? More to come.
The Resounding Right of Mutulu Shakur to Die in Freedom [CounterPunch.org]
Mutulu Shakur and his codefendant Marilyn Buck at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Manhattan, 1987. Photo: Trella Laughlin. Anyone with a loved one in prison carries around the silent,…
My latest: we’re all in Kansas evermore
We’re not in Kansas anymore. But actually, we kind of are. Let us explain. The famous line above, of course, was uttered by Judy Garland’s Dorothy character in the seminal…
Canada could learn from Cuba’s sustainable agriculture
An organopónicos farm near Alamar, Cuba. Photo by Melanie K. Reed/Flickr. Canada’s current model of agriculture is failing. It is an unsustainable, pro-agribusiness, anti-smallholder model that has brought a steady…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andre Picard writes that COVID-19 remains an imminent and severe threat to our health – no matter how many people are choosing to…
Legal Tweet of the Day: August 3, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Kansas set to become first state to let voters weigh in on abortion in post-Roe US #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN https://cnn.it/3d8zYKo – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our…
what i’m reading: like other girls: best youth fiction i’ve read in a long time
A girl wants to play football. That’s all. Well, not quite all. Mara wants to be herself. And that self wants to play football, among other things. Mara isn’t trying…
Simran Bakshi on Employment Law: Challenging your Employment Agreement
Here are 4 ways you may be able to challenge your employment contract: First, how and when the contract is signed is critical. If it was signed after you already…
Live And Let Live?
I generally abide by a pretty simple philosophy: don’t bother other people. By that, I don’t mean we should not be involved in other people’s lives in a positive way;…
The Last Debate
The format for tonight’s Conservative leadership debate is somewhat novel. Stephanie Taylor reports that: No audience, no podiums and appearances from only three out of the five candidates running to…