Canada smokes New York
Good neighbours share. But what Canada is sharing these days with its good neighbour to the south is not appreciated. I refer to the dense plumes of smoke from our…
2023
Wild (fires) in the Streets (of New York)
In Canada, the weather isn’t news unless it happens in Toronto. In the United States, the weather isn’t news unless it happens in New York. Here’s a roundup of tweets:…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Umair Haque discusses the absurdity (and manufactured idiocy) that results in us continuing with extractive business as usual as we enter a…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 8, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Cities and towns all over Quebec say the new language law is abusive #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/3hcabf97 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: How important is it to have a Will if you are in your 30s and don’t have many assets?
Having a Last Will is still important, even if you are young. There is no better way to provide for your family and your future. You can create a Last…
Why we should abolish ‘Corporate Pride’ once and for all
Photo by Nathan Mac/Wikimedia Commons June is Pride Month, and I have already tendered my annual resignation from gay and queer life until July 1. Every year I withdraw from…
Poilievre’s Plan.
When Adolph Hitler sent his Brown Shirts to the Bundestag in the Weimar Republic elections in the 1920s and 30s, their purpose was not to govern but to obstruct. It…
My latest: passion over reason
Reason over passion. Pierre Trudeau become famous for that one. Some academics claim that Trudeau actually said “reason before passion,” but it doesn’t really matter. The sentiment is clear. Namely,…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Caitlin Johnstone offers a grim but fair evaluation of the barely-existent left in the U.S. and elsewhere – while recognizing that the obvious…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 7, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: At least 100,000 Nova Scotians affected by cyber theft of government employee files #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/mpc5mzz9 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
Latest. Up the road.
Hillier PEC barn. Tweaked. For sale. pic.twitter.com/s83fKqeqyD — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 7, 2023
Alberta election about identity, not policy
Danielle Smith winning re-election last week is a reminder that elections are more about confirmation bias and reaffirming our own prejudices than about working together to find solutions to collective…
South Korea pivots toward conflict
Yoon Suk Yeol takes the presidential oath of office, May 10, 2022. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is rushing South Korea headlong into the middle…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Providing for Guardianship of your Children in your Last Will
You can definitely name somebody in your last will to have custody and guardianship of your minor children in the event both of the parents pass away. Now, the appointment…
Zombie Economics
There is an idea that should have died decades ago. Unfortunately, like a zombie from the film The Night of the Living Dead, it refuses to die. The idea is…
Health care capacity crisis? Wait ’til you see what Ford has planned.
Despite the current health care capacity crisis, the Ford government plans to cut health care service levels.Hospitals: The news is bad for hospital services. The new Financial Accountability Office (FAO)…
Health care capacity crisis? Wait ’til you see what Ford has planned.
Despite the current health care capacity crisis, the Ford government plans to cut health care service levels.Hospitals: The news is bad for hospital services. The new Financial Accountability Office (FAO)…
Health care capacity crisis? Wait ’til you see what Ford has planned.
Despite the current health care capacity crisis, the Ford government plans to cut health care service levels. Hospitals: The news is bad for hospital services. The new Financial Accountability Office…
Market fundamentalism is an obstacle to social progress
The Bull of Wall Street in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. Photo by David Hogan/Flickr. A changing world order, a shrinking US empire, migrations and related demographic…
Conformity Experiments
This image comes from a century ago, of course. It’s still very hard to be different, but sometimes it’s vital. When I taught a course called the Challenge of Change,…