It’s time to free the children
Spring is officially over (although we’re already had a month or more of summertime temperatures) and summer is officially here. Glorious sunshine. Everything is green. Mosquitoes are ready to hatch.…
June 2023
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mitchell Beer writes about the Canada Energy Regulator’s recognition that the future will involve far less fossil fuel use than the oil industry…
Submarined
Look, I hope the little submarine people are rescued. But they should be sent a big bill when they are. They were completely reckless about the risks and went ahead…
My latest: what those by-elections mean for Poilievre
Yes, the government is still the government. Yes, the Official Opposition is still the Official Opposition. Yes, the turnout was low. Yes, nothing really changed. Yes, the punditocracy reads too…
Fairy Creek – Losing Our Monuments
Pay heed to how things have evolved in Fairy Creek on Vancouver Island. Its ruin is ours. The post Fairy Creek – Losing Our Monuments first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 21, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Andrew Tate charged with rape, human trafficking in Romania #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/57p43duj – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
About That Missing Submersible
The headlines have been cluttered the last few days with the frantic search for the missing submersible “Titan” owned and operated by OceanGate. In the midst of it all, have…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Estate Tax
There are 3 basic ways in which most simple Estates may be required to pay taxes. 1. If all or part of your state is being submitted to Probate, you’ll…
The realpolitik of open nomination
The realpolitik definition of an open nomination is not that it is a fair fight, but that if you beat the party establishment, your victory will be accepted. As the…
An Assault on Gender is an Assault on Democracy
Here’s Judith Butler on gender. She’s a prof in California who teaches literature, philosophy, and critical theory, and wrote, most famously, Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter. Abridged transcript of…
It’s not pie
I review an article by The Tyee’s senior editor Paul Willcocks, wherein he gave a failing grade to BC Conservatives when an obnoxious couple disrupted a schoolyard event involving 9-year-olds.…
They are all Super Mayors.
The idea of Barrie’s mayor being given undemocratic powers by the province is hilarious. In a poll to determine the least competent mayor in Ontario, our mayor might be, at…
Smith to Legislature: Sorry/Not sorry!
Sounding about as sincere as the proverbial used-car salesman and not as convincing, Premier Danielle Smith whipped through an apology to the Alberta Legislature yesterday for breaking the Conflicts of…
Who wants to be Mussolini?
Vladimir Putin tours Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Concord food catering factory. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. The repeated failures of the Russian army, combined with scandalous events such as the appearance of Ukrainian…
The brilliance of the Sustainable Jobs Act
Last week the feds tabled Bill C-50, the Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act, in the House of Commons. The bill would create a Sustainable Jobs Partnership Council to advise the government…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Outstretched cats.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nippon.com discusses a new survey indicating that a large majority of people in Japan continue to mask regularly to protect their own…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 20, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: RCMP says there was ‘insufficient evidence’ to lay charges in SNC-Lavalin affair #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/35b5b777 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
It’s Hard to Emigrate to New Zealand. I Checked
This one minute video is the type of thing the government of New Zealand posts: a virologist explaining that every Covid infection significantly increases the risk of getting diabetes, mental…
Windfall Profits and Taxes.
Why are all the grocery stores bragging about their higher profits? And why is the government not taxing those excessive profits at a higher rate? It wouldn’t do anything to…