☠ Fossil methane gas ☠
Proponents tell us that fossil methane gas emits fewer greenhouse gases when burned than coal. “Natural Gas” has long been sold to us as a reliable, environmentally friendly, even classy…
August 2023
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Madeline Holcomb reports on new research showing that COVID-19 boosters are more effective when delivered to the same arm as previous vaccine doses.…
Clash of the holidays
So, what costume are you wearing for Halloween? Are you giving out mini-chocolate bars, or Twizzlers? Oh, wait. Sorry, seems I’ve jumped the gun. Based on what I’ve seen in…
Legal Tweet of the Day: August 21, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ex-Rogers CEO Joe Natale suing company for wrongful dismissal, seeking $24 million #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/2s7jd87b – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Amazon donation to UofT follows ‘greenmail’ strategy of media companies
Photo by Robert Scoble/Flickr Most journalists are so overwhelmed nowadays by the daily grind in short-handed newsrooms—a phenomenon Dean Starkman dubbed “the hamster wheel”—that they don’t have much time for…
Canadian mining, oilsands companies saw huge revenue increases in 2022
Photo by Chris LeBoutillier/Unsplash The Canadian Mining Journal, an industry magazine catered to insiders, has released its annual ranking of Canada’s top 40 miners. Describing 2022 as “a remarkable year”…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of August 21, 2023
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of August 21, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 21, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: Justice Thomas had more than one billionaire benefactor; friends lavished him with…
Menakem’s Somatic Therapy Approach to Anti-Racism Work
Resmaa Menakem’s My Grandmother’s Hands came highly recommended. The title refers to the effect that being enslaved had on his grandmother, and Menakem traces the violence of racism through the…
A Tip Too Far.
The growing arguments about the practice of tipping for service deserve some decent airing. Having experienced the attitude towards tipping in Japan, I admit that I would be happy to…
Ontario Liberals need to find integrity and authenticity again, and that doesn’t mean rushing back to the mushy centre…
There has been much talk in recent times about what went so very wrong for the Ontario Liberals. What factors led to such a calamitous decline of losing party status…
Thanks, Klein! Albertans are getting hammered as deregulated July electricity prices jump 128% over last year
Albertans are getting hammered this summer by high electricity prices – just one of the impacts of the chaotic wide-open Alberta electricity market that was Conservative premier Ralph Klein’s gift…
Review 9: Son of Godzilla
I‘ve hesitated to write this review because, of all the films in the Godzilla franchise, I dislike the campy-cute, family-friendly Minilla, the so-called “son” of Godzilla. Minilla appears in three…
The Failure of Biological Essentialism Arguments
There is an entire class of argument that we see in discourse that basically relies on the idea that “physical attribute X means that Y can never be true”. Often,…
Conservatives And Conspiracy Theories
Pierre Poilievre continues to strengthen his ties to conspiracy theorists. Max Fawcett writes: It’s not exactly a secret that conservatism has made more room in recent years for conspiracy theories,…
Over 90,000 Canadian Deaths and Counting
A JAMA article called out 52 medical health professionals who knowingly posted misinformation on social media. About a third of them are primary care physicians. It doesn’t name any names,…
Blaming Voting Systems.
One of Justin Trudeau’s promises in the 2015 federal election was that it would be the last time Canadians would use first-past-the-post voting. And you know how far he got…
Weekend Funny Stuff
Funny stuff: How to lure me to my death pic.twitter.com/X0sVRGJOWK — Hermeshuns ? (@hermeshuns) August 13, 2023 I saw these on Bluesky: (Read more…)Moving on to US politics, its clear…