Debunking Sheer’s Carbon Tax "Myth"
Max Fawcett, columnist for the National Observer, wrote a thread debunking Andrew Scheer’s 6 minute video on the “myth” of the carbon tax. First, a few caveats/concessions. He complains about…
January 2023
An Episode Of The Twilight Zone
Today, as Republicans take control of the House of Representatives, a new day is dawning. That doesn’t mean it’s a good day. Paul Krugman writes: As late as 2015, or…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of January 3, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 3, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: EU accuses Meta of antitrust breaches with classified ads Michael Melling out…
The lesson we should have learned from ‘Silent Spring’
Fertilizing, May 1972. Photo by Charles O’Rear from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Documerica project/US National Archives/Flickr. Last year marked six decades since the publication of Rachel Carson’s seminal work Silent…
Peace, Order and Good Government.
In turning loose former colonies, the United Kingdom often use the direction for Peace, Order and Good Government somewhere in their initial constitutions. And here we are 158 years later—still…
Animal crackers
“I had dozens of utterly bizarre experiences that were also Perfectly Normal. This is because the human condition is vast and also Very f*ck*ng Weird.” (cc: @PaulDechene) #PublicTransport https://t.co/evb0ELqgEr —…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Zhenguo Nie, Yunzhi Chen and Meifeng Deng study the relative merits of COVID precautions, finding upward ventilation and masking to be the most…
Rock on
Painted a rock. pic.twitter.com/Ly8NdxW05M — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 2, 2023
we movie to canada: best of "what i’m watching" 2022
Here are the best movies and series I watched in 2022. They’re not in order — it’s not a countdown — just a list of all the really good stuff.…
Towards a Federal Healthcare System
The time has come to nationalize healthcare in Canada. The experience of the pandemic so far has provided ample evidence that the provinces are wholly incapable of handling major public…
A Buddhist Perspective on Addiction: Nothing is Vital.
Now that the hangover from New Year’s Eve is abating for many, and we might be freshly open to some self-improvement, consider a Buddhist view of using meditation to tackle…
A Brighter Assessment
My assessment of 2022 has been pretty dark. But E.J. Dionne writes that last year wasn’t all doom and gloom: We have become so accustomed to bad news, crisis and…
Why we need to nationalize health care in Canada
The time has come to nationalize health care in Canada. The experience of the pandemic has provided ample evidence that the provinces are wholly incapable of handling major public health…
Poilievre’s Perspective.
It is quite unlikely that the Christmas break from parliament has brought any new perspective to conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. His problem is that he needs to see the report…
Social-conservative activist John Carpay reported by legal advocacy group he heads to have been charged with obstruction of justice
Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms President John Carpay has been charged with obstruction of justice by Winnipeg Police and was arrested after turning himself in to Calgary Police Friday, the…
Resignations leave residents of two corners of southwest Calgary with neither an MP nor an MLA
Happy New Year! The small block of Calgary’s North Glenmore neighbourhood, south of Glenmore Trail, that’s in both the federal Calgary Heritage Riding and the provincial Calgary-Elbow riding (Map: Government…
The Kraken Wakes: We Need to Stop Hosting Monsters!!
I don’t read much fiction, but I loved John Wyndham as a teen, and I realize I didn’t love English class because there was almost never any sci-fi on offer…
“If there is to be a livable future, it will be a future offline”
Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World Jonathan Crary Verso, 2022 At this point, it is a commonplace that the techno-optimist promises of the Internet’s early proponents…
Those we said goodbye to in 2022
For reasons I don’t understand, I’ve always had a thing for celebrity deaths. Weird, right? And in keeping with that weirdness, here is the most comprehensive list of the famous,…