My latest: it’s not your party, you can’t recruit who you want to
What happens when a political party loses its mind? It can happen. It has happened. Often. The Conservative Party produces ads mocking the facial deformity of Jean Chretien, and gets…
2023
Criminalizing NGO search and rescue workers endangers the lives of asylum seekers
Migrants on a boat crossing the Mediterranean Sea on January 29, 2016. Photo by callmonikm/Flickr. With the start of the New Year, it seemed like all of Europe breathed a…
Cheapskates in Charge.
Did you know that Ontario is the richest province in Canada? Did you also know that it is currently being run by the cheapest politicians in Canada? The Ontario conservatives…
Tonight’s tonic: “Controversial north Yonge bike lanes made permanent by city council”
Tonight’s tonic: “Controversial north Yonge bike lanes made permanent by city council” I wrote about this last month, calling for the Midtown Yonge Complete Street pilot project to be made…
Islam—is the fear justified?
When it comes to religion, I am not a believer nor am I a student of theology. I am but a mere observer, much more inclined to fact than faith.…
The Four Horsemen of the Edocalypse
In a lengthy and well-thought-out post on Stratechery Ben Thompson describes the The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession. Following Thompson’s lead Maria Anderson offers a corresponding Four Horsemen of…
Fossil fuel producers mining gold in Victoria
British Columbia’s NDP government issued a press release in May 2022 that promised an end to fossil fuel subsidies. Politicians were concerned that consumers troubled by rising energy prices might…
Legal Tweet of the Day: February 8, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: ‘I’m heartbroken.’ Google Canada employees start getting layoff notices #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3JRqeCz – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
Food For Thought
I found this on Twitter. Thanks to Michael Warburton for this clip on Mohammed Ali musing about language. Recommend this Post
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What is Probate?
When you name a person in your last will to be the Executor of your Estate, that person sometimes needs to also apply to the Court to be appointed formally…
Dispelling myths about for-profit health care
An old friend of ours recently confessed to using a private clinic for her cataract surgery. She said that, while she felt guilty, she nonetheless received wonderful care and paid…
Trudeau And Smith
Justin Trudeau and Danielle Smith shook hands yesterday. You could see the pain on Smith’s face. Graham Thomson writes: If a picture is worth a thousand words, Tuesday’s video of…
Diagnosis by Dreams
What you do while dreaming might be a sign of things to come. This isn’t non-scientific phooey, rather this is real science that can help doctors and patients address neurological…
Why I’m running for OLP VP Communications
The Ontario Liberal Party is holding its AGM in Hamilton next month and I’m standing for VP Communications. I’m putting my name forward because we need to rebuild the OLP…
We Get Letters!
It is tough to be a liberal in Ontario these days. You get letters to add to your opinions. One frequent flyer with Babel-on-the-Bay wrote the other day to say…
Health care funding: Trudeau looks serene, even mischievous; premiers look like they’re just going to have to take it
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looked like the smooth old political pro he has become yesterday as he laid out his health care deal for Canada’s perpetually dissatisfied and mostly Conservative…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Expressive cats.
Today’s Scene: We don’t get to choose the battle. We only get to choose our side.
I said this years ago and I say it again today: We don’t get to choose the battle. We only get to choose our side. Right now, Canada finds itself…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates February 7, 2023
NOTE: If you send the updates to Alex Stokes, he has been moved: Alexander Contompasis 22-B-5028 Upstate Correctional Facility Post Office Box 2001 Malone, New York 12953 Click here for…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emma Beddington rightly questions the determination of the powers that be to pretend that COVID-19 never happened – though her attempt to…