Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Andrea Thompson reports on the record-breaking heat wave in the southwest U.S. as another stark example of a climate breakdown in progress. But…
September 2024
Predictable, Incurable, Disabling, Fatal, and PREVENTABLE
It's still here. It's still dangerous. We have the ability to stop it, but we can't wait to be told to because that's just not happening. Andrew Nikiforuk wrote in…
Free Speech Maximalists
Leo Laporte said once again today "I'm a free speech maximalist" on the TWIG podcast, and once again I had the same visceral reaction to the term. We know that…
Legal News Post of the Day: September 5, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: More than 300 Toronto corner stores can sell alcohol as of Thursday #law #legal #LegalNews via @CBCNews https://t.co/pzTSDsao4S - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Canadian forestation policies add fuel to the fires
The spraying of the herbicide glyphosate by Canada’s forestry industry is designed to promote conifers like pine and spruce, leaving species like aspen and birch vulnerable. Photo by Joel Theriault.…
Singh’s Demise
Jagmeet Singh has done it. Yesterday he cancelled his agreement with the Liberals. Max Fawcett writes:After months of speculation about the fate of the confidence and supply agreement that bound…
Singh’s Demise
Jagmeet Singh has done it. Yesterday he cancelled his agreement with the Liberals. Max Fawcett writes:After months of speculation about the fate of the confidence and supply agreement that bound…
Ontario Wills and Estates #LawFact of the Day: Life Insurance and Your Estate
Life insurance policies that designate a beneficiary become that beneficiary's property on the day the insured dies. They don't become part of the insured’s Estate and they are not subjected…
Pitting Health Against Education as We Debilitate a Generation
Covid is definitely causing a variety of longterm illnesses and public health still can't manage an effective PSA that undoes damage caused by their previous misinformation: teaching people how easily…
Ain’t we havin’ some fun now? Crazy stories today about Singh in Canada, and the Russians in the US
First in today's news, of course, was Jasmeet Singh's announcement that he is "ripping up" the Supply and Confidence agreement with the Liberals - whatever that means:You are delusional Sir.…
Breaking UCP promise, Devin Dreeshen pulls plug on $1.5B provincial grant to Calgary Green Line
Let’s try to figure this out: On July 29, Calgary’s $6.3-billion Green Line light rail transit extension project was worthwhile enough for Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen to assure Calgary…
Singh’s unilateral and questionable action
I received an email message this morning from Jagmeet Singh saying he wanted me to... The post Singh’s unilateral and questionable action first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
A Step Too Far
A Facebook post by Gordon F.D. Wilson, the BC Liberal leader who was pushed aside in 1993 by big business interests who wished to install the more submissive Gordon Campbell.…
Journalism without fact-checking
Beware of what you read about BC Hydro in news sites operating to benefit those who aim to privatize billions of public dollars. One example is a Derrick Penner article…
SACA is Over, Liberals Disapointing
The Supply and Confidence Agreement is over. The Liberals failed uphold many terms of the agreement. The CBC describes “drug meat sings” (autocucumber Jagmeet Singh’s) decision to end the agreement…
Evidence for Democracy (E4D)
Science did not fare well under the Harper government of 2006-15. It eliminated the long-form... The post Evidence for Democracy (E4D) first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Why Free Learning Needs Free Artificial Intelligence
'Free' learning means two things to me: first, the idea that learning ought to be zero cost, and second, the idea that learning ought to be open and inclusive. Together…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Andrew Nikiforuk discusses the immense economic and human cost of COVID-19 denial as another wave surges. And Matthew Frank et al. study how COVID…
The UCP Is Being Petty and Vengeful
The UCP government is now becoming vengeful - openly so. In the 2023 Alberta Election, rural Alberta voted UCP, and urban Alberta didn't (at least not the kind of sweep…
Legal News Post of the Day: September 4, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Judge Denies Trump Request to Move Hush-Money Case to Federal Court #law #legal #LegalNews via @nytimes https://t.co/VVwRivSnYq - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…