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…
2023
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…
New Book: Indigenous Media Arts in Canada – Order your copy!
Over five years in the making and ready for pre-orders It was the summer of 2018 when I approached Dana Claxton, after a keen suggestion from our mutual acquaintance Heather…
New Book: Indigenous Media Arts in Canada – Order your copy!
Over five years in the making and ready for pre-orders It was the summer of 2018 when I approached Dana Claxton, after a keen suggestion from our mutual acquaintance Heather…
Today’s News: Roundup time
A roundup of this week’s news: First, this happened on Tuesday — weird, wasn’t it: The handshake. pic.twitter.com/9KBgNH1mcP — Andrew Brown (@browncbc) February 7, 2023 I can’t believe this needs…
One Taxpayer, Many Politicians.
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to say to just one level of government: “Hey stupid, Fix it.” Instead, we have provincial governments and territories squabbling over tax point…
The ‘RStar’ scam’s not a good deal, but it’s a done deal, even if it goes against a ‘core capitalist principle’
The shocker isn’t that the awful “RStar” scam is a done deal. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). The old fixeroo for that dirty deal has been in ever since…
World Health Network’s Safe Schools Initiative
The World Health Network has a 30 minute video out about Safe Schools with a small panel of people looking at how to make schools DavosSafe! Michael Bailey, co-founder of…
A better way forward is still possible
In Bill Henderson’s guest post, he drew attention to a commentary by University of New Brunswick’s Jason MacLean. Published in April 2022, Dr. MacLean’s article should be reviewed. Excerpts follow…
On climate, it’s not too early to say
Denial is fast becoming an addict’s tantrum, and nobody can be quite as clueless and ignorant about existential climate dangers like those in the oil patch and the journalists, think…
The Iceland series continues
Another Iceland. Little town. pic.twitter.com/eTB71pX0uq — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 9, 2023
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Scott Rivkees writes that COVID-19 denialism has come to dominate public policy around an ongoing viral threat, while Kelly Skjerven reports that…
Reining in the reign of plastic
I was modestly surprised last week when my groceries were packed not in the usual plastic but in brown paper bags. The idea, of course, is to get away from…
Legal Tweet of the Day: February 9, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Metrolinx plans for Osgoode Hall will cause ‘permanent damage to one of the most historic sites in Canada’: Heritage report #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/40HKoot – Garry J.…
On Trans People And Changing Rooms
I swim. Regularly. It’s my preferred form of exercise for a variety of reasons. I like to think the staff and other patrons at the pool know me, and respect…