My political gut
Always trust my gut over polls. My gut is telling me Harris is slowly losing the election. I’m a war room guy, so I always favor bringing the heat. Harris…
October 2024
foot pain, swimming, push-ups, and roast chicken: four things going on with me
I haven't written one of these silly personal posts in a while, and things are piling up. As I always say, I write this blog for myself, and I have…
Today’s News: Freaking Out about the Presidential Polls
https://www.270towin.com/mpThree weeks to go and the Presidential polls are freaking everyone out:If you are noticing that the only national polls Trump is leading in are the ones taken by a…
What happens to the Alberta Energy Industry when Buildings can produce more energy than they consume?
To me the idea that a building can produce more energy than it consumes is a bit mindblowing. It sounds like a crazy idea. When I first heard it, I…
BC Greens on Education
Surrey-Cloverdale BC Green candidate Pat McCutcheon pointed to the BC Government boasting that a new addition to École K.B. Woodward would allow some of the school’s portables to be “used…
The 2024 UCP AGM Policy Resolutions
The UCP's policy resolutions were published on the party website the other day. It's about as bad as you might expect, worse if you're a transgender person. Let's take a…
No pharmacare, please, we’re Alberta Conservatives! … and if there’s no grift, there’ll be no gift!
Alberta still won’t join the federal pharmacare program. Never mind Health Minister Adriana LaGrange’s explanation in her press release Friday – “the federal government has yet to share its vision…
Automated Translation in Javascript with Google Translate API
The main thing to know here is that Google's AI does not know how Google's API interface works. It will give you advice that works fine with GET requests but…
About Samidoun and the terrorist list
Until a few days ago I had never heard of the organization Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner... The post About Samidoun and the terrorist list first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
An important week in British Columbia
Right-wing coalitions friendly to big business ruled this province for 52 of the last 72 years. Led by a man removed in 2022 from the Official Opposition caucus for denying…
Continuing With A Theme
This seems to fit nicely with my previous post about the Trump Grift.Recommend this Post
My latest: profiles in cowardice
To remain human, the writer Graham Greene once said, you have to take sides. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has chosen a side: Jews, the Jewish state, Western democracy. Poilievre sometimes…
Today’s News: Oh for f**ks sake, why would Trudeau step down NOW?
Lots of news today about how a group of unnamed Liberal back-benchers are supposedly organizing to get Trudeau to resign as party leader. Yeah, sure -- whose bright idea was…
Green Line Revisionist History: It’s Hard to Fix When Hick from Sticks Nixes Klicks of Clacks on Cowtown Tracks!
I did something old-timey with my hotel breakfast today: I read a newspaper, an actual newspaper, the Friday edition of the Calgary Sun. For a guy who got his start…
Musical interlude
Shallou feat. The Knocks - Endless
it was the best of times, it was the worst of times: a tale of one library manager on two consecutive days
This started out as a "things i heard at the library" post, but it got too complicated. Instead, it's a story about my life as the manager of a public…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Emily Atkin writes about the importance of continuing to highlight the dangers of climate change even if - and indeed because - our political…
Legal News Post of the Day: October 11, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Trump administration protected Brett Kavanaugh from full FBI investigation #law #legal #legalnews via @guardian https://t.co/sKx8DIAO2z - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visi...
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from April 12, 2012 via Wise Law Blog
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from April 12, 2012 via Wise Law Blog: Seven Years of Wise Law Blog https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2012/04/seven-years-of-wise-law-blog.html - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…