UPDATED: My Favourite Films of 2024!
Demi Moore in The SubstanceUPDATED: I wanted to see a handful more movies before I published my annual list below, but today I'm ready. (As I see more flicks from…
2025
My Favourite Films of 2024!
Demi Moore in The SubstanceI wanted to see a handful more movies before I published my annual list below, but today I'm ready. As dear followers of my annual list…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Andrew Nikiforuk writes that Canada is currently failing to carry out any energy transition, as any expanded use of renewables is only being added…
Here I am at somewhere else
Substack interface is a bunch of puzzle pieces turned facedown on the table hidden under dotted napkins. I think I found the feed of likes
Public Forum Roundup
Over the years, I have been a regular writer of letters to newspapers. My first one, I believe, was when I was about 13, and for the next 50 years…
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from June 19, 2009
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from June 19, 2009 via Wise Law Blog: Ontario Court Nixes CIBC Overtime Class Action https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2009/06/ontario-court-nixes-cibc-overtime-class.html - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto La...
Zoning deregulation won’t fix the housing crisis
View over Toronto toward downtown. Photo by Michael Monastyrskyj. A garden once thrived at the corner of 89th Street and 92nd Avenue in Edmonton. Every spring residents of the city’s…
Alberta cabinet ministers Mikey Amery and Mike Ellis to ‘strengthen cross-border collaboration’ on Lone Star State junket
Give the United Conservative Party Government its due – it didn’t publish a really embarrassing news release insulting the intelligence of Albertans until the second day of 2025. Granted, Premier…
Writing I love: "We’re All Made of Horrible, Beautiful Scars"
I found this piece of great writing last summer, when we were in the midst of our own heartbreak, and it was just so thoughtful and meaningful: Cole Haddon /…
A good man gone
On December 29th, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter died in Plains, Georgia at the ripe... The post A good man gone first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
what not to do in a job interview
As a library manager, I regularly hire new library workers in entry-level positions -- library assistants who work on a casual, on-call basis. When permanent positions open up, casuals are…
Thursday Night Cat Blogging
Hosting cat.
KINSELLCAST MUSIC – Volume 11
It’s a big, big one. I went over the whole year (three times – thanks, Apple elf lords) and assembled some of the best stuff for you. Click here or…
2025 so far
Doom scrolling for any good news
Anomy: A Disturbance of the Collective Order
A few articles have come out recently concerned with the trajectory we're taking, particularly choices being made by young adults. But we need to acknowledge the upheaval we're currently living…
Geothermal energy now!
The International Energy Agency involves 32 member nations and 17 other associates. Together, these countries are responsible for about three-quarters of global energy consumption and almost 90 percent of clean…
Legal News Post of the Day: January 2, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dead at 100 #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/XjZQUOiXkI - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
“Archbishop Bannon” versus “Unelected President Musk”
If you had any illusions about MAGA having taken on cult-like traits, you only need to read some of Bannon’s statements in this article.He instructed Musk to “sit back and…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- David Macdonald offers this year's report on CEO compensation in Canada - showing how company men are being handed obscene pay packages while…
Why be a doormat?
Political cartoon published in July 1870 depicts Canada as a child, with Great Britain, represented as Mother Britannia, holding out her protective arms. Uncle Sam, representing the United States, stands…