Follow Polls at Your Peril.
Reading political polls is a trap but we all do it. Polls are never that accurate. Polls can mislead us. Polls are always old news. At their best, they report…
2023
Hot take: If you were hoping for sanity in Alberta after yesterday’s election, you can forget about it
Those praying for a degree of sanity to prevail after yesterday’s Alberta provincial election were bound to be disappointed by the apparent result last night. NDP Leader Rachel Notley concedes…
Dear Health Authority Without The Infection Control
To follow up my Dear Premier letter, Dear Saskatchewan Health Authority: Your capable employees had booked me for a routine appointment at a hospital in Regina. To get to my…
what i’m reading: madame restell (nonfiction version)
In March, I wrote about My Notorious Life, historical fiction by Kate Manning, based on the life of a woman known as Madame Restell. I loved the book. Then, by…
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 29, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Here’s What Happens When Your Lawyer Uses ChatGPT #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://tinyurl.com/yw8dybps – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
Saturday Photo (a little late): Bridle Veil…
The glory continues. This week it is Bridle Veil that is featured.
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of May 29, 2023
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Kids Today!
A letter has been circulating and in the news complaining about kids today. Things have changed in the last few years, but I don’t think it’s as dramatic a shift…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of May 29, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 29, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: ‘Game changer’: Ontario engineers remove Canadian work experience requirement for immigrants Why…
Indoor Plants That Eliminate Carcinogenics
Plants are one of the most obvious good things that there can be, and certain plants are excellent at cleaning specific chemicals out of the air. We all know that…
Bonnie Blunders.
You hate to see a promising politician do a pratfall on the way out of the starting gate. Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie broke all the rules she could have learned…
No predictions today, but the stakes are high, maybe existential, so just go vote!
One of the dirty little secrets of Canadian politics at the end of the beginning of the 21st Century is that a lot of political professionals have come to recognize…
Election Day
We’ve said everything there is to say. We’ve done everything we can do. Vote wisely Alberta.
Sunday Evening Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – David Cox talks to Akiko Iwasaki about the reality that we’re still far from being done with major harm from COVID-19. Keith…
Kelowna
Latest. Kelowna trees. pic.twitter.com/lqLE1XQlOV — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 28, 2023
Liberalism and the spectre of inverted totalitarianism
Pablo Picasso, “Massacre in Korea,” 1951. The painting was considered to be a condemnation of US intervention in the Korean War. Image courtesy Musée Picasso/Wikimedia Commons. The conflict now raging…
Installing NextCloud Hub with OnlyOffice on Ubuntu 18.04
These are the things I encountered following Dave Lane’s instructions here: https://tech.oeru.org/installing-nextcloud-hub-onlyoffice-ubuntu-1804 and finally restart the network stack and ufw on your serversudo service networking restart Failed. Used systemd-networkd restarthttps://superuser.com/questions/1423959/ubuntu-server-fail-to-restart-networking-service-unit-network-service-not-foun…
Professional Use of AI
Not so long ago, I wrote a piece on some of the ethical question marks that Large Language Model (LLM) Artificial Intelligence (AI) raises. In the last week not one,…
Some Pretty Pictures and a Poem
On my twitter feed, I make sure to temper my covid and climate change posts by re-tweeting incredible physical feats (mainly cycling and gymnastics), beautiful art, hilarious posts, lots of…