My latest: the Grit forecast is not all that sunny
OTTAWA – Liberal forecast here in the Nation’s Capital: rain, hail and locusts. With a possibility of sunshine, chirping birds, and limitless blue skies. That, at least, was the Grit…
2024
Teachers Prepared To Strike For Smaller Class Sizes
In recent years, many teachers are dealing with 40 kids, in unsafe classrooms, while the Sask Party Education Minister posts about a mining company on the day the strike is…
Saturday Photo: Sunrise, Waning Moon, Winter…
Took this out the front window on one of the few days lately when the skies are clear.Nice to see the moon for a change, although as you can see…
Spread the Word, Not the Virus
We’ve been behind the curve on Covid mitigations. At this point, we should be able to see the error in removing masks, right?! When the wastewater data and/or hospitalization rates…
Saturday Photo: Sunrise, Waning Moon, Winter…
Took this out the front window on one of the few days lately when the skies are clear. Nice to see the moon for a change, although as you can…
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
I will be the first to admit that my viewing tastes are unusual for a man my age. I enjoy the off-kilter, the unusual, even the bizarre in movie/streaming fare.…
The cry of the Cu-cu-cu bird!
From across the Prairies we hear the mournful cry of the Cu-cu-cu bird….”Cu-cu-cu-Christ, its cu-cu-cu-cold here!” Oh well — we had a great fall here, and a green Christmas, so…
Musical interlude
Flight Facilities feat. Broods, Reggie Watts & Saro – Stranded
Nothing to see here!
A Berkely Earth email today reminds us that serious actions to address climate change should not be delayed. But like most Canadian political leaders, Detective Frank Drebin is indifferent…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Sara Moniuzsko reports on the World Health Organization’s recognition that COVID-19 is still causing nearly 10,000 reported deaths per month (to say nothing…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 12, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Multiple Canadian universities facing class-action lawsuit, claiming antisemitism #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://t.co/1taqflJh2P – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
Have to get this off my chest
It won’t change anything, but this #ICJ hearing is such a load of bollocks. Israel has for years provided Palestine with water, energy, food, jobs and positions in their judiciary,…
Covid Basics in Just Five Minutes
There’s a TikTok making the rounds that says everything I’ve been writing here in just five minutes! It took some cajoling to watch it all the way through because the…
The lost peace and the missing piece
With the end of the ideological conflict between communism and capitalism, a more positive peace order appeared attainable. Why did it fail to materialize? Image courtesy Fotosearch/Getty Images. Was a…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from January 22, 2015
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from January 22, 2015 via Wise Law Blog: Should the Public Continue to Fund Courts to Resolve Personal, Civil Disputes? http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2015/01/should-public-continue-to-fund-courts.html – Garry J. Wise,…
The Best Prime Minister We Never Had
There are few politicians that I gush over, but Ed Broadbent is one of them. We lost one of the good ones. I don’t like him because he’s NDP –…
Megaproject madness
CBC is reporting that three aluminum ships built in British Columbia during the 1990s will be sold or sent to the ship-breakers. Constructed for about 800 million in today’s dollars, the…
Edmonton mayor to ask city councillors to declare housing and homelessness emergency on Monday, ruffling UCP feathers
In a blog post published yesterday, Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi said he has called a special meeting of City Council Monday to ask for a declaration of a housing and…
Petit gars
Listening to this guy at his birthday party. So is everyone else.