August 2023
A Crime Against Everyone
The Enclosure Movement was a push in the 18th and 19th centuries to take land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village, or at…
Take a Mask, Leave a Mask
Donate a Mask is an amazing group that helps get masks in people’s hands who couldn’t otherwise afford them. They’re helped immensely when others buy from them to offset the…
No Rest for the Wicked.
No, premier Ford, the Greenbelt fiasco is not going away. Firing Ryan Damato was just the first of many steps back you need to take. Not that you hurt his…
This week in stupid: from Sask Ed policies, to Trump-fatigue, to Trudeau polls
Like Arthur Clark said way back when on possibility of extraterrestrial life in the universe: “We’re either alone, or we’re not. And either way you look at it, it’s staggering.”…
2,500-word Alberta ‘fact sheet’ tries to counter critics of freeze on new renewable electricity project approvals
Obviously feeling enough heat to overlook the political folk wisdom that if you’re explaining you’re losing, the Alberta government released a wordy “fact sheet” yesterday attempting to explain why no…
Musical interlude
Kx5 feat. Hayla – Escape
pacific northwest labor history association conference: the keynote address
It has been on my mind, and on my to-do list, to write more about the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association Conference*, which I was fortunate to attend in May…
Conservatives circle their hateful wagons around trans people; Have any of you ever actually met and spoken with a trans person?
My dear late friend Kyle ScanlonI've been heartbroken watching the repeated, nasty attempts south of the border and now in Canada to demonize transgendered people, all for political gain. Trans…
Conservatives circle their hateful wagons around trans people; Have any of you ever actually met and spoken with a trans person?
My dear late friend Kyle Scanlon I’ve been heartbroken watching the repeated, nasty attempts south of the border and now in Canada to demonize transgendered people, all for political gain.…
Sleeker and Even Quieter: PC Case Fan Filtration Box
It’s like a Corsi-Rosenthal box, but instead of being a square with a 20″ box fan, it can be built with six PC case fans (typically used to cool a…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – The Honest Sorceror points out the obvious unsustainability of exponential growth in resource extraction when the mass of inanimate man-made objects already exceeds…
The Price of Dispensing With The Monarchy
Over on Musk’s Xitter site, I spotted the following post basically arguing that we should dispense with the Monarchy in Canada. Let me start off by saying that I’m sympathetic…
Legal Tweet of the Day: August 25, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani surrenders in Georgia election case #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/2fn5zf2u – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Maine art.
Two done so far.
What the life and death of Yevgeny Prigozhin tells us about modern Russia
Russian oligarch and leader of the Wagner private military company Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died in a plane crash on August 23. Photo by Mikhail Mettsel/TASS. “A dead man walking” was…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from May 27, 2008
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from May 27, 2008 via Wise Law Blog: A Tale of Three Judges: The Need for Family Law Reform in Ontario https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2008/05/tale-of-three-judges-need-for-family.html – Garry J.…
Ford Fails Fallacious.
He cannot win his Greenbelt argument and he doesn’t know when to shut up. Every time the Ontario premier opens his mouth in public, he sticks a foot in his…
A journalist who understands journalism
After 28 years as a key contributor at the Georgia Straight, Charlie Smith moved to Pancouver, a new arts and culture media outlet that aims to “shed light on how…