a reading plan for 2023
This year’s reading plan is more open-ended — designed to give me focus but not overwhelm. I’ve created what most people seem to call a reading challenge, but that term…
January 2023
The High Cost Of Serving Developers
Doug Ford has a lot to be happy about these days. His debt to developers is being rapidly repaid via his Bill 23, which will not only remove key parts…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: If a family member has put money into an investment in your name and you have co-signed on changes to the investment, does the investment belong to you?
The answer will very often depend on what you and your family member intended. Did they put the investments in your name with the expectation that you would hold it…
Dismantling the cult of Churchill
Winston Churchill. Illustration by Lyn Ott (1942). Image from Wikimedia Commons. Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes Tariq Ali Verso, 2022 When I was about 10 years old, my first…
Champagne’s Clarion Call.
It is Canada’s last hope for a break in cell phone pricing. We have been betrayed by the Quislings in the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and the Competition Tribunal…
Today’s News: Update on Covid
I haven’t posted much about the Covid news lately, but I have been gathering together some of the articles and tweets that seem to summarize the most helpful advice right…
Tonight’s tonic: “Shine a brighter light on contract government – Ottawa’s becoming addicted to consulting firms.”
Tonight’s tonic: “Shine a brighter light on contract government – Ottawa’s becoming addicted to consulting firms. Other countries have rung the alarm. It’s time for the same to happen here.”…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jessica Wildfire discusses how the U.S. and Canada are following the UK’s healthcare collapse due to a combination of public health negligence and…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 4, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Feds want Sunwing, Via Rail executives to answer for holiday travel chaos #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CityNewsTO https://bit.ly/3IkjIDu – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
I am vindicated
Like I’ve said for months: Anyone who is (a) sane (b) of voting age (c) in Canada doesn’t like either Trudeau or Poilievre. The federal choices suck. Worst ever. From…
Joining The Fools Parade?
As we witness the clown show presently unfolding in Washington, Murray Brewster writes that the same insanity is showing up in Canada: A U.S.-based research group that specializes in gauging…
Pigeons Outperform Radiologists
Radiology is very complex and even doctors with years of training and experience can make misdiagnoses. So far AI systems haven’t been competitive with humans; however, pigeons are. Researchers trained…
Science and decolonization: Keeping the debate on track
Lubicon Lake Band’s Piitapan Solar Project, Little Buffalo, Alberta. Photo courtesy Concordia University. Recently, a well-known conservative pundit, Rex Murphy, ridiculed a federally funded project at Concordia University that bears…
Ruling in Rogers-Shaw deal shows reform of Competition Act is badly needed
Photo by Timon Schneider/Dreamstime Does the Competition Bureau have a hope in hell of stopping Rogers from swallowing Shaw and creating a nationwide cable monopoly? Probably not, but that’s just…
The Clear Future.
As a child, I spent many hours at the windows of inter-city trains in Ontario. When the trip included Toronto’s Union Station, I would be particularly excited. The vast dome…
Alberta NDP’s $7.1-million fund-raising total in 2022 speaks to deep dissatisfaction among many voters with Premier Danielle Smith and the UCP
It is remarkable by any measure that the Alberta New Democratic Party raised $7.1 million in 2022, not to mention that $3.2 million of that sum was donated during the…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Surrounded cats.
Another video: who’ll win?
TRUDEAU POILIEVRE SHOWDOWN: Will 2023 be the year Conservatives beat the… https://t.co/59CF2d1wc7 via @TheTorontoSun — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 4, 2023
The Rogers-Shaw Merger – An UpDate
For someone who is appalled by the pending approval of the Rogers-Shaw merger (see my previous post), I will take whatever good news there is, no matter how slight. Here…