Rate Your Landlord
Landlords run a business that profits off a basic human need: shelter. As a result of the basic power imbalance between those who can own multiple homes and those who…
2023
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What is Probate?
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Training Mr. Ford.
I sometimes wonder if Ontario premier Doug Ford has ever taken a train anywhere? It looks like he has even forgotten that the liberal government, his conservatives had followed into…
Radical street preacher Artur Pawlowski found guilty of 2 charges; still gets to challenge Jason Kenney’s Critical Infrastructure Defence Act
Possible unpopular opinion: Far-right street preacher Artur Pawlowski will have done us all a favour if he manages to get all or part of Jason Kenney’s odious Critical Infrastructure Defence…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Angled cats.
The enemy from within
“You Are What They Eat.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. America is a stratocracy, a form of government dominated by the military. It is axiomatic among the two ruling parties that…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Alec Connon discusses how anger is an entirely appropriate response to the capitalist imperative to impose constant costs and burdens on people…
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 2, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Witness calls discrimination at the human rights commission a national scandal #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/44dkAlM – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
The Darker Side of UCP Policy
Welcome to Alberta's 2023 election cycle. Campaigning has effectively been going on for some time now, but the writ was issued yesterday and now it's official. We're in an election…
New Method Destroys Forever Chemicals
Forever chemicals get their name because there’s no natural way they decompose and we don’t know of efficient ways to break them down, that’s changing though. Researchers at UBC have…
Five years
I am missing Gordie today. pic.twitter.com/mHXOKyHrRP — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 2, 2023
Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot became an international celebrity. But, to me, he was quintessentially Canadian. Back in 1965, as a university freshman, I attended a concert he gave as part of our…
The rules of America versus global civilization
A sea of containers at the Yangshan Port, a deep water port located in Hangzhou Bay south of Shanghai. The port is part of the Maritime Silk Road. Photo from…
There is No Cure for Covid Except Maybe MAiD
Dr. Rae Duncan is a cardiologist who, pre-pandemic, mainly saw people aged 55-80. Now most of her clients are 16-40. They were previously healthy, but Long Covid affected their heart.…
Conservatives Colliding.
It seems there is a growing rift between Doug Ford, premier of Ontario and Pierre Poilievre, leader of the federal conservatives. It is a bumpkin versus an idealogue. It is…
"So I’d best be on my way In the early morning rain"
Sad news today — Gordon Lightfoot has passed. I included some tweets and songs of his in a post from September, when he was at the CNE. The CBC has…
As campaign begins, Art Pawlowski and Rob Anders talk political alliance; Paul Hinman gets new party; Drew Barnes exits, stage right
Apparently looking for something to do while he awaits the verdict in his criminal trial later today, “street preacher” Artur Pawlowski has teamed up with the former holder of the…
On the Amazon, Lula tries to undo Bolsonaro’s destructive legacy
Deforestation in Maranhão state, Brazil, July 2016. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Lula da Silva’s election as president of Brazil has raised hopes around the world for swift action in defence…
My latest: SkyNet is active
Artificial intelligence is a benign kind of description, isn’t it? Doesn’t sound demonic at all. So too its acronym, AI. We hear and see “AI” all the time, these days.…