Joining The Fools Parade?
As we witness the clown show presently unfolding in Washington, Murray Brewster writes that the same insanity is showing up in Canada: A U.S.-based research group that specializes in gauging…
2023
Pigeons Outperform Radiologists
Radiology is very complex and even doctors with years of training and experience can make misdiagnoses. So far AI systems haven’t been competitive with humans; however, pigeons are. Researchers trained…
Science and decolonization: Keeping the debate on track
Lubicon Lake Band’s Piitapan Solar Project, Little Buffalo, Alberta. Photo courtesy Concordia University. Recently, a well-known conservative pundit, Rex Murphy, ridiculed a federally funded project at Concordia University that bears…
Ruling in Rogers-Shaw deal shows reform of Competition Act is badly needed
Photo by Timon Schneider/Dreamstime Does the Competition Bureau have a hope in hell of stopping Rogers from swallowing Shaw and creating a nationwide cable monopoly? Probably not, but that’s just…
The Clear Future.
As a child, I spent many hours at the windows of inter-city trains in Ontario. When the trip included Toronto’s Union Station, I would be particularly excited. The vast dome…
Alberta NDP’s $7.1-million fund-raising total in 2022 speaks to deep dissatisfaction among many voters with Premier Danielle Smith and the UCP
It is remarkable by any measure that the Alberta New Democratic Party raised $7.1 million in 2022, not to mention that $3.2 million of that sum was donated during the…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Surrounded cats.
Another video: who’ll win?
TRUDEAU POILIEVRE SHOWDOWN: Will 2023 be the year Conservatives beat the… https://t.co/59CF2d1wc7 via @TheTorontoSun — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 4, 2023
The Rogers-Shaw Merger – An UpDate
For someone who is appalled by the pending approval of the Rogers-Shaw merger (see my previous post), I will take whatever good news there is, no matter how slight. Here…
Setting Up a Node.js Application in Reclaim Cloud (1)
1. Create a new environment in reclaim cloud Resource: https://support.reclaimhosting.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404919752215-Creating-New-Environments-in-Reclaim-Cloud I selected node.js as my application and Maria DB as my MySQL database. 2. Set up an end point for…
2023
It’s a new year. I’ve been blogging for over 21 years now. Sudden writer’s block at 83,000 words. Tempted to just write “and they we were all killed by a…
Radical Idea: Libraries
If the idea of a library was purposed today it simply would be laughed out of existence because a library embodies an idea that is often ignored: that people, no…
Our latest video hit
LILLEY UNLEASHED: Political winners and losers of 2022 https://t.co/NHK2Su2wK8 via @YouTube — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 3, 2023
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Brendan Crabbe and Mike Toole discuss how COVID-19 has been able to spread and evolve due to people’s willingness to live dangerously,…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 3, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario pharmacists can treat 13 common ailments as of Jan. 1. Here’s what you need to know #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3id8mqb – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of January 3, 2023
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Debunking Sheer’s Carbon Tax "Myth"
Max Fawcett, columnist for the National Observer, wrote a thread debunking Andrew Scheer’s 6 minute video on the “myth” of the carbon tax. First, a few caveats/concessions. He complains about…
An Episode Of The Twilight Zone
Today, as Republicans take control of the House of Representatives, a new day is dawning. That doesn’t mean it’s a good day. Paul Krugman writes: As late as 2015, or…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of January 3, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 3, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: EU accuses Meta of antitrust breaches with classified ads Michael Melling out…
The lesson we should have learned from ‘Silent Spring’
Fertilizing, May 1972. Photo by Charles O’Rear from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Documerica project/US National Archives/Flickr. Last year marked six decades since the publication of Rachel Carson’s seminal work Silent…