Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Hannah Davis et al. review what we know so far about long COVID – and how much work remains to be done in…
January 2023
Unmasked People, Unmasked in Their Own Way
I think masks separate us like the families in Tolstoy’s famous opening line of Anna Karenina. You know the one: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy…
A Cautionary Tale
What, Me Worry? The ‘braintrust’ in the Doug Ford government has decided that the way out of our healthcare crisis is to
Saturday Photo: The First Books Arrive….
Wednesday the first copies of my new book, Against the Seas: Saving Civilizations from Rising Waters arrived. Most appropriate as storms batter California, destroying beaches and bridges and badly-sited houses.…
The Just Transition Act
There is a huge battle brewing in the West. Gary Mason writes: In the 2019 federal election, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party announced that if elected, the government would introduce the…
Pondering the Political Phoenix.
How many times over the years have we heard speculation about this or that political party being able to raise itself from the ashes? Would the federal conservatives ever survive…
What a week!
Sad news from all over today: Jeff Beck, Robbie Bachman, Lisa Marie Presley … gone. ☹️ Life is fragile folks. pic.twitter.com/XJ7FVj7pJu — Larry Updike (@LarryUpdike) January 13, 2023 In other…
Ah, Imprecision! Carry On, Prosecutors! Danielle Smith takes it all back in clarification
As predicted in this space yesterday, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has now clarified her statement of the day before about contacting Crown prosecutors “on a regular basis” to ask if…
Musical interlude
Flight Facilities – The Ghost
Why we do not need to nationalize health care in Canada
Photo by Hush Naidoo Jade/Unsplash The following article is a response to “Why we need to nationalize health care in Canada” by Taylor C. Noakes, published in Canadian Dimension on…
Re Ontario Green Belt Reduction
I can but say that I share these concerns and the following communication from ALL the Ontario opposition parties says it all.......Bonnie LysykOffice of the Auditor General of Ontario20 Dundas…
Re Ontario Green Belt Reduction
I can but say that I share these concerns and the following communication from ALL the Ontario opposition parties says it all……. Bonnie LysykOffice of the Auditor General of Ontario20…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Oscar Grenfell discusses how Australia is among the countries which has seen a declining life expectancy due to COVID-19 – with a distinct…
The Shadow Pandemic
The Shadow Pandemic must be taking into account as we move out of the changes needed to thwart Covid. The post The Shadow Pandemic first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 13, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario man denied car insurance coverage after 3.5 metre fall takes company to court and wins #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://bit.ly/3Xwj4H8 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our…
On A Wing And A Prayer
H/t MacKay As one who will very soon be on a plane, I watched with great interest but low expectations yesterday’s committee hearing into the fiasco of air travel over…
Selfishness Pure And Simple
The Republicans in the House have made it clear. They plan to cut Social Security and Medicare. Paul Krugman writes: CNN has obtained a screenshot of a slide presented at…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from October 29, 2010 via Wise Law Blog
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from October 29, 2010 via Wise Law Blog: Ontario Family Law: Court of Appeal Rules Superior Court Judges May Request, But Not Order, Children’s Lawyer…