Imaginary News
We have all heard now about Fake News - see also Truthiness, Alternative Facts, and Mis-information. Now, we're hearing "imaginary news" --We’ve all become desensitized, but it’s amazing how at…
October 2024
Forests need protection, not exploitation
Plants, People, Planet is a peer-reviewed bi-monthly scientific journal established by The New Phytologist Foundation, a non-profit that promotes plant science. In 2022, the journal warned about the dire consequences…
Devin Dreeshen reaffirms previously unaffirmed and formerly affirmed Calgary Green Line
CALGARY – In what had to be a humiliating climbdown, Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen issued a joint statement this morning with Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek explaining that the Green…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- William Ripple et al. provide an update on the state of the Earth based on 2024 data, and warn that we're continuing to…
Legal News Post of the Day: October 10, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Brazil's Supreme Court allows X to resume service via #law #legal #LegalNews via @CBCNews https://t.co/Nq72PSZBEk - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
UPDATED: The Grift Continues
If one can say anything even remotely positive about Trump and his team, it is that they are very resourceful. Resourceful at separating their true MAGA believers from their money,…
Ontario Wills and Estates #LawFact of the Day: How Does Marriage Affect Your Existing Will?
When a person is married in Ontario, the marriage automatically revokes a prior Last Will made by that person.The sole exception to this rule is a Last Will that is…
Interviews with Harris and Walz
Harris and Waltz are doing media all over this week (except tne New York Times and Politico, and boy are they pissed!) Anyway, here are some good clips: From Howard…
Jennifer Johnson, the deplorable poop-cookie lady, is welcomed back into the bosom of the UCP
CALGARY – If the United Conservative Party Caucus in the Alberta Legislature were cookie dough, I suppose the addition of Jennifer Johnson wouldn’t significantly change the flavour of the cookies…
Sacrificial Citizenship
A thug accosts Jack Benny. Thug: Now, come on—your money or your life. Thug: Look, bud. I said, “Your money or your life.” Jack Benny: I’m thinking it over! —The…
My latest: the CBC’s “eyes and ears”
Couldn’t CBC have shown some respect, even on Oct. 7? More than 1,200 men, women, children and babies slaughtered by Hamas and Gazans in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023: On…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Darius Snieckus reports on a new International Institute for Sustainable Development study finding that Canada is still spending three times as much subsidizing fossil…
Legal News Post of the Day: October 9, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Scouts Canada 'shabbily' sidelined veteran volunteer, judge finds #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/dW4XulEJW0 - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our we...
More On The Therme Sweetheart Deal
The following video is the NDP's Chris Glover talking about how the deal Doug Ford has struck with Therme Spa is a bad one for taxpayers. Just before watching it,…
Wise Law’s Family #LawFact of the Day: Separating from your Spouse in Ontario
Ontario Family Law recognizes separation of spouses who intend to live separate and apart even if they don't immediately live in separate residences.Many couples live separate and apart “under one…
DeAdder Fired and the Weird Week
Yesterday afternoon, Michael DeAdder announced that he’d been fired by the Postmedia-owned Halifax Chronicle Herald, where he has been the editorial cartoonist for more than three decades, and for which…
Now there’s something you don’t see every day!
Some odds and sods and bizarre news: Oh, yeah -- I forgot So today was the day everyone who had been Covid vaccinated was supposed to die.Everyone ok?— RS Archer…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Clingy cat.
Joe Fafard’s NFB film from 1973
I Don’t Have to Work that Big, Michael McKennirey, provided by the National Film Board of Canada. Lots of Regina views toward the end of the film, including some art…