Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Linda McQuaig writes about Catherine McKenna's rare (if belated) honesty about the extent to which Canadian policy is dictated by fossil fuel tycoons. And…
December 2024
My latest: take that, Prime Minister “Feminist”
Chrystia Freeland, Liberal leadership candidate. There can be no other rational explanation for why the former finance minister is sticking around. None. Having fired a rocket directly at Justin Trudeau…
Breaking News!
Chrystia Freeland has just resigned!Recommend this Post
Wise Law’s Legal News Posts for the Week of December 16, 2024
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of December 16, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of December 16, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter:Leader of Polygamist Sect in Arizona Gets 50 Years in Child Sex Ring…
Edmonton police commission member plans to work from Portugal; strangely, UCP minister has no problem with that
If only Andy Thompson had lived to see this day! Andrew Ernest Joseph Thompson, who ascended to the Great Legislature in the Sky in 2016, was the low-profile Canadian Senator…
‘Goliath versus Goliath’ media battle being fought between Big Telecom and Big Tech
A new form of convergence is roiling Canada’s media, according to Carleton University’s annual report on the state of media industries here. Our media were ravaged at the millennium by…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Julieta Manrique et al. study the prevalence of COVID-19 after infection - and find that even in patients who aren't immunocompromised, it manages…
Time For A Refresher Course
I have never been fond of the American aphorism, "My country, right or wrong." On the surface, it suggests a reflexive, unbending and blind loyalty to and pride in one's…
Funny stuff and fascinating threads and animal crackers
Enjoy some of the funny stuff and the words of wisdom that I have been collecting lately: I passed it too, did you? pic.twitter.com/98U7kI62Ob— Jerseygirl #FBR 🟧 (@gggirl924) December 4,…
Big Pharma maximizes profits even if patients are harmed
Free-market conservatives believe industries should be allowed to do whatever an unregulated market allows. Many would object to Therapeutics Initiative (TI). It has value for all citizens. TI is part…
My latest: Captain Canada, take a bow
Picture a schoolyard. Donald Trump is there. He’s the schoolyard bully. He calls the other kids names, he threatens them, he pushes them around. Sometimes, he even hits them, for…
Israeli historian accuses Canadian media of enabling Gaza war crimes
Lee Mordechai is a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Photo supplied. On December 5, 2024, Israeli historian Lee Mordechai released a 124-page report titled “Bearing Wit...
Today’s News: "So how does one prepare for a dictatorship?"
So how does one prepare for a dictatorship?— Rocket’s Bitch (@Cheezydork74) December 11, 2024 Is everyone just whistling past the American graveyard right now?I'm seeing a lot of coverage of…
Musical interlude
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America Deserves What It Gets.
The word of the year was … huh?
Well, gentle readers, it’s that time of year again when media outlets and other organizations produce their ‘(fill in the blank) of the year’ lists. First out of the gate…
Soon-to-retire Edmonton police chief and tireless copagandist to become Alberta’s chief bureaucop: premier
Dale McFee, chief of the Edmonton Police Service, will soon take over as Alberta’s chief bureaucop – pardon me, bureaucrat – Premier Danielle Smith announced yesterday, surprising absolutely no one.…