What is the real price of your hamburger?
As much as we trust the free market, it isn’t always honest with us. It... The post What is the real price of your hamburger? first appeared on Views from…
2024
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Sarah Kaplan and Simon Ducroquet highlight new research documenting hundreds of millions of years worth of temperature fluctuations - and finding both that high…
Out of control spending on for-profit nursing agencies to surpass $1.5B in Canada this year: report
Spending on so-called “agency nurses,” nurses employed by for-profit nursing agencies whose services are contracted out to short-staffed public health care employers to fill temporary staffing needs, is out of…
Wise Law’s Top 10 #LegalNewsPosts for the Week of September 23, 2024
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of September 23, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 23, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter:Sean (Diddy) Combs faces criminal indictment in New York, prosecutors saySean 'Diddy' Combs…
"Basket of deplorables" 2024 version: fearful, credulous, vicious, cheap, thoughtless and destructive
Remember in 2016, when Hillary said some Trump supporters were "a basket of deplorables" and the US media clutched their pearls and fainted all over their couches and gasped how…
Book review: Beneath the Surface of Things, by Wade Davis
This is a collection of 13 essays by Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis. There isn't any overall theme to them, other than they are all well worth reading. Two of them,…
How to Return to Civility in Politics?
Who's fueling the decay in politics? The post How to Return to Civility in Politics? first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Tarique Niazi discusses some of the geopolitical implications of the intensifying climate crisis. Aaron Whetty offers a reminder that the joint effort by…
When ‘disinformation’ control becomes government censorship
TIFF Lightbox in Toronto. Photo by Raysonho/Wikimedia Commons. The Liberals are openly suppressing alternative views on the war in eastern Europe and ramping up dangerous rhetoric towards a nucl...
Saturday Photo: When Stars Fell on….
This is the time of year when the stars are out...in the front yard. I mean, asters are in bloom everywhere, rivaling the heavenly show. Quite lovely.
My latest: the truth about terror
Hezbollah is a terrorist entity. It is designated as a terrorist entity by Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the U.A.E. and many other countries. Its members are…
Sifting Through The Propaganda
H/t Theo MoudakisHaving purchased this past summer a used hybrid vehicle that gives me remarkable fuel economy, I am now a very infrequent customer at the gas pump. My greenhouse…
Eating on the Road: McKiernan in Montreal
On past trips to Montreal I've had the pleasure of dining at Joe Beef and their sister restaurant, Liverpool House, and on a day trip this summer I had the…
Eating on the Road: McKiernan in Montreal
On past trips to Montreal I've had the pleasure of dining at Joe Beef and their sister restaurant, Liverpool House, and on a day trip this summer I had the…
Happy Saturday! Canadianisms, strange graveyards, animal crackers, and more!
As the weeks wear by, propelling us toward a crucial election in the United States and, increasingly likely, in Canada too, I find myself grasping occasionally at something less intense…
Musical interlude
Blu DeTiger - Vintage (Flight Facilities Remix)