Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sascha Pare reports on the growing recognition that methane emissions could trigger “termination” events which see tundra turn into tropical savannah. And Robson…
2023
Legal Tweet of the Day: August 30, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Canada warns LGBTQ travellers they could be hit by U.S. state laws #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/mw5jfyz3 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
House Rules: How Parliament Governs Itself
The form and function of the House of Commons and its committees has, as its foundational document, the Standing Orders of the House of Commons. It is a letter-sized green…
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…
The NDP has been co-opted by Western imperialism
As developments in Ukraine, Libya, and Niger highlight, the United States and NATO interfere in other nations’ affairs with little remorse or consequence. And some Canadian “leftists” go along for…
Mehdi Hasan on Covid Contrarians
Mehdi Hasan did a 26 minute show on Covid misinformation. It’s mainly about American “Covid contrarians,” but this kind of thing is happening in Canada as well. Good on him…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats amid chaos.
Accelerating climate change
Eliminating methane emissions offers huge potential for quick, affordable climate action. Modern technology makes identification of leakage relatively simple, but industry and governments are dedicated to increased fossil fuel production.…
Kagarlitsky: Letter from prison
Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist. Photo by Alexander Demyanchuk/TASS. Boris Kagarlitsky, an internationally renowned scholar and political activist, was arrested on July 25 by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Michelle Gamage and Katie Hyslop report on the grassroots push for better anti-COVID-19 planning in British Columbia schools. And in case there’s…
My latest: we love covfefe
BOSTON – A few years back, Jean Chrétien said this: “A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It’s a proof. A proof is a proof. And when…
Legal Tweet of the Day: August 29, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: ‘Parents must be fully involved’ in student’s decision to change pronouns, Ontario education minister says #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/yc7e5rh8 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
Bailey’s Baaaack … and He’s Pissed
Apparently, J. Michael Bailey is “back”, and he wants to make himself out as another Jordan Peterson – beset by the onslaught of “woke” attacking his work. Bailey’s the same…
Bike Riding is Not Just a Phase
Every cyclists knows that riding a bike equals freedom, you can go where you want when you want and don’t need trillions of dollars of infrastructure to operate one. Electric…
Postmedia uses junk science to make its case for digital millions
Image from Pixabay Non-scholars tend to be impressed by studies that are seemingly scientific but on closer inspection simply don’t hold water. They are often offered by our news media…
We See What We Want to See
Lots of people still don’t quite understand how Covid spreads or how serious it is, causing mass disabilities and continuing to cause significantly more deaths that traffic collisions, although traffic…
Singh’s Song.
New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh’s turbans might be bright and colorful but his beard is graying. It is also showing a little more trimming, in contravention of the dictates…
Conservatives Turned Into a Soft-core Hate Party So Gradually, I Hardly Noticed
How in the ever-loving Eff could someone not realize that the Conservative Party of Canada was now a party willing to weaponize hatred to gain support, money, and Internet trolls?…