Population decline is a boon, not a bust
Great concern is being expressed about declining populations. Most recently we have read that even China, the most populous nation on Earth, now experiences a declining population, joining Japan, South…
2023
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Paula Span discusses how older Americans (and their peers elsewhere) have been left to navigate the pandemic with no consideration for their health…
My Man Snoop Dogg
Can’t beat him for colour commentary, as you will see: Given contemporary events, I thought a change of pace was called for. Recommend this Post
Shocker In T.O!
Tory, 68, announced the end of his mayoralty, less than four months after he was easily re-elected to a third termTory had admitted a “serious error of judgment” by having…
Nord Stream: Who masterminded its destruction?
The gas leak in the Baltic Sea from Nord Stream photographed from the Danish Coast Guard’s aircraft on September 27, 2022. Photo courtesy EPA-EFE/Danish Defence Command. The explosions that hit…
Shocker In T.O!
Tory, 68, announced the end of his mayoralty, less than four months after he was easily re-elected to a third term Tory had admitted a “serious error of judgment” by…
Things Can Change Quickly
It caught us all by surprise. The Toronto Star’s Edward Keenan writes: Well, holy mackerel. Did anyone see this coming? But this is a shock. Mayor John “Bland Works” Tory,…
Saturday Photo: Desire Lines in the Snow
People don’t walk in straight lines, even though sidewalks and roads may try to make them. Uneven ground, small obstacles and even the vagaries on one’s gait mean that the…
The Ups and Downs of Polls.
The paranoid parties of the Prairies are having a polling contest. They are seeing who can waste the most money on polls four months before the election. They sure are…
In case you’re wondering
I don't want to talk about it. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 11, 2023
Musical interlude
Metric – I Will Never Settle
Finally—Democrats romance the working class
Early in the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, Donald Trump was the subject of much mockery. No way this buffoon could win said the pundits. Michael Moore, left-wing rabble-rouser and…
War on carbon would result in economic efficiency and improved quality of life
Following are excerpts from The Symbolic and Substantive Politics of Climate Change, an article by Dr. Steven Cohen, Senior Vice Dean of Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies.
SaskPower Plots To End Drinking Water Availability
Not maintaining availability and quality of drinking water is an option? Cool. Cool, cool, cool. NOT COOL, @SaskPower. What happens if the slavering hordes decide in the poll that we…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Philip Ritchie writes about new research into natural receptors which may help limit infection by COVID-19 and other viruses, while Alice Klein reports…
Legal Tweet of the Day: February 10, 2023
#LegalTweetftheDay: Ontario consumers to pay new recycling fee on pop cans and other beverages starting April 1 #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3DYUCap – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our…
Keynes and the left
Street art depicting John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) in Lisbon. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. “The theories of John Maynard Keynes provide the sound intellectual framework for the views which trade unionists…
The Face of Homelessness
I have been thinking a lot about the homeless for quite awhile now. It is a problem difficult to ignore given the proliferation of people ‘living rough,’ attested to by…
Democracy Under Siege
Michael Den Tandt writes in the Globe and Mail that democracy is in trouble: Simply put, democracy is losing. The reason: Western governments, led by the United States, have not…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from March 18, 2006
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from March 18, 2006 via Wise Law Blog: $1 Million damages for Mental Suffering to BC Employee http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2006/03/1-million-damages-for-mental-suffering.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our…