Reforming Voting.
It seems that too often we are looking at voting methods instead of examining the entire electoral process. There is much more involved in Canadian politics that the voter should…
September 2023
Wildfires — deadly for some, unhealthy for hundreds of millions
Stanford research reveals the rapidly growing influence of wildfire smoke on air quality trends across much of North America. Wildfire smoke in recent years has slowed or reversed progress toward…
Big state takes on big oil—a lesson for Alberta?
Someone reading this blog might get the impression I take pleasure in hearing about environmental lawsuits against oil companies and their friends. They would be right. I do. And so…
Cultivating Mindfulness While The Climate Emergency Clock is Ticking
This past June I had the good fortune to spend five days on a family kayaking trip in Pacific Rim National Park, off the west coast of Vancouver Island. It…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Adele Waters writes about the large numbers of UK doctors who are suffering from long COVID as a result of their efforts…
Western Canada’s plans for fossil fuel expansion are the second largest in the world
2023 is the worst ever year for areas burned by wildfires in British Columbia, Alberta and the entire nation of Canada. For years before 2023, despite huge sums invested by…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 21, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Saskatchewan judge to hear school pronoun policy injunction application #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/4j4cw8ft – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
What Happened In Vegas
… didn’t stay in Vegas. Consequently, another one bites the dust. Dean Blundell explains all: The corruption obviously runs deep, and it runs from the top down. Doug the Slug…
Politics, 2023 style
The people who complained that Ottawa wouldn’t release details about China’s wrongdoing in Canada are the same people now complaining that Ottawa released details about India’s wrongdoing in Canada. Go…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Is a foreign Will valid in Ontario?
This can depend on the Will itself. Some factors to consider are: Does the Will intend to apply to property in Ontario? Can the words of the Will be interpreted…
The Spat With India
So, India is expanding its temper tantrum over Canada expressing concerns over the suspected role of the Modi government in the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. To a certain extent,…
The conservative ‘debate’ over trans rights is no debate at all
LGBTQ2 rights supporters gather in Montréal, September 20, 2023. Photo by Kalden Rangdrol Dhatsenpa. The rapidity with which attacks against trans people have increased this year is a dark sign…
Chasing Pirola
I week I wrote that we don’t need to know all the specifics about different variants. It just confuses people. What the public needs to know is that there are…
Requiem for Truth.
When politicians fail to tell the truth, when the Internet is littered with individual versions of truth, and print media is failing to survive, where do you look for truth?…
Calgary gets serious about housing
Somewhat surprisingly, we have an issue which all three major parties have agreed on. A housing crisis. There is even agreement on how to deal with it. Both the governing…
Strategic misrepresentation, aka as lying
Bent Flyvbjerg of Oxford University is the most cited scholar in the world in megaproject management. One of his studies included this: “Underestimation cannot be explained by error and is…
Kinsellas Truth
Apparently I said this 11 years ago. Someone on Facebook found it. Sounds like me. “If you must know, Star Trek is really the best politics series: fly in, convert…
No one is imposing “gender ideology” on children in schools, decent folks are trying to save trans & queer kids’ lives and anti-LGBTQ protesters today are simply trying to hurt or even kill them
Let's call a spade a spade.Gender-non-conforming kids and queer kids in our schools are extremely vulnerable to bullying, discrimination, harassment, and violence. This was my experience as a gay youth…