My latest: deploy, not defund
Defund the police. Those three words became a rallying cry in the Summer of 2020, when a Minneapolis man named George Floyd was brutally murdered by members of that…
2023
Compassion in an age of anxiety and disillusionment
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture Gabor Maté with Daniel Maté Knopf Canada, 2022 Published in September 2022, Canadian physician and author Gabor Maté’s…
The Peaking of Poilievre.
We used to worry in political campaigns about when we peaked. This was a point when you could not get any further up the hill and had started going back…
Athabasca University President fired after long-running disagreement with UCP over institution’s role in Athabasca Town
After months of scrapping with the United Conservative Party government over the role Athabasca University should play in economic development for the Town of Athabasca, university president Peter Scott has…
Former premier, CMOH – both battered by the winds of COVID controversy – find soft post-pandemic landings
Surely it was mere coincidence that two of the principal actors in Alberta’s COVID-19 drama had soft post-pandemic landings announced yesterday. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Former…
Will Frances Widdowson get her job back?
Frances Widdowson was not Miss Popularity at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Over 6,000 people signed a petition calling for her firing. They wanted her gone. And gone she was.…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Crawford Kilian writes about the urgent need to prioritize and invest in public health and the social determinants of health – both to…
Legal Tweet of the Day: February 1, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: B.C. woman who lost $69K to fraudster wins right to sue bank on appeal #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3wMIaq0 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Downtown T.O. Is Looking A Bit Scuzzy These Days
In fact it reminds me of when I 1st came to town in the mid 1980s, except that the porn shops have moved North on Yonge towards Bloor Street, and…
Downtown T.O. Is Looking A Bit Scuzzy These Days
In fact it reminds when of when I 1st came to town in the mid 1980s, except that the porn shops have moved North on Yonge towards Bloor Street, and…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Providing for Guardianship of your Children in your Last Will
You can definitely name somebody in your last will to have custody and guardianship of your minor children in the event both of the parents pass away. Now, the appointment…
A Multi-Headed Hydra
Andrew Nikiforuk writes that we now face an army of COVID viruses: What began as an airborne pandemic driven by a single virus has become a viral cloud roiling around…
The Engineering of a Passive Off the Grid House
A sustainable home doesn’t need to be off the gird, but for some people interested in sustainability they reach a logical conclusion that off the gird makes sense. Of course,…
Trudeau government’s support for Peruvian coup regime all about Canadian mining companies
Supporters of ousted Peruvian President Pedro Castillo protest his detention in Lima. Photo from Flickr. Seven weeks after Pedro Castillo was ousted as Peru’s democratically elected president, protests and blockades…
Leave Mr. Schreiner alone.
We have lots of good people with leadership potential in the liberal party. Why go for the only guy willing to take on the Ontario Green Party? The Green Party…
Day drinking with Dale and Larry: The perfect metaphor for Alberta’s UCP Government
Talk about the perfect metaphor for Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government in the year of Our Lord 2023: A couple of guys day-drinking in a 7-Eleven and yakking about it.…
NDP raised more cash in fourth quarter and all of 2022 than UCP, Elections Alberta figures show
With the release of Elections Alberta’s fourth-quarter party fund-raising disclosures today, we can now report that the NDP raised more money in every quarter of 2022 than the United Conservative…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Jumpy cats.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Richard Denniss calls out Australia’s government for its “nothing to see here” approach to an ongoing public health emergency. And Falko Tesch…
On Generational Divides
There is a huge generational conflict going on in our society today, and it’s mostly “The Boomers” versus every generation that came after them. The Boomer generation is steadily moving…