Carbon taxes examined
Reading comments on social media and listening to statements by certain politicians, it is apparent that carbon taxes are often misunderstood. These impositions are designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions…
Legal News Post of the Day: February 14, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Air Canada was ordered to pay a passenger $2,000 for delayed luggage. Instead, it's taking him to court #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/kxegRMy85r - Garry J. Wise, Toronto…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Anne Applebaum discusses how the actual regime change under Donald Trump involves the replacement of any public service with a system devoted exclusively to…
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from May 17, 2010
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from May 17, 2010 via Wise Law Blog: Alberta Tribunal Addresses the "Great Prima Facie Debate" on Family Status Workplace Accommodation https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2010/05/alberta-tribunal-addresses-great-prima.html...
The unChurchill
When a country is under attack, when the people want a leader to rally behind, the guy who sneers that the country is “broken” is not who you want leading…
Yes, Carney actually did save us in 2008
The Cons are trying to re-litigate and downplay Mark Carney's role in protecting Canada from the world financial melt-down in 2008, and Scrimshaw is having none of it:Mark Carney was…
Moe Problems
I noticed Moe removed the ridiculously stupid Sustainable SK link from his TwitterX bio in the past year. Now he’s saying that his futile and worthless trip to Washington to…
If the UCP hopes to turn the page on the Dodgy Contracts Scandal, someone’s going to have to fall on their sword
If Danielle Smith hopes to turn the page on the Dodgy Contracts Scandal that’s been dogging her since the former CEO of Alberta Health Services challenged the United Conservative Party…
The world regresses
Lord Peter Mandelson has not always been a fan of Donald Trump. The long-time member... The post The world regresses first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
What’s a billion?
If a Canadian were to put aside C$500 a week, it would take more than 38,331 years to accumulate a billion dollars, and more than 21 million years to accumulate…
Heart Harmony Healing for Valentine’s Day
Who doesn’t feel the need for more harmony and inner alignment right now? That’s why, just in time for Valentine’s Day, I’m sharing a heart alignment healing with you. Following…
Kennedy the killer
And Kennedy is approved. I used to think that, when thousands of tiny crosses start appearing all over the US – children killed by measles and preventable diseases – Americans…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Jared Yates Sexton discusses the Trump-Musk plot to replace any remnants of U.S. democracy with an oligarchy. Josh Marshall examines the mechanisms put…
A Radical Idea to Return to Government by The People Rather Than by One Person
In the United States today perhaps we are seeing the epitome of government by one person, at least in countries that claim to be democracies. Here in Canada ever since…
Tit for tat
A change of heart
A Radical Idea to Return to Government by The People Rather Than by One Person
In the United States today perhaps we are seeing the epitome of government by one person, at least in countries that claim to be democracies. Here in Canada ever since…
Standing Resolute
Amidst the talk of annexing Canada, the premiers marched to Washington to meet with White House officials. Afterwards,. James Blair, Trump's deputy chief of staff for legislative affairs, had this…
Slava Ukraini
I paint when I’m anxious about the world. I paint a lot, lately. For obvious reasons, I want to fundraise again for Ukrainian Red Cross. Portion of proceeds goes to…
Ontario Wills and Estates #LawFact of the Day: Life Insurance and Your Estate
Life insurance policies that designate a beneficiary become that beneficiary's property on the day the insured dies. They don't become part of the insured’s Estate and they are not subjected…
Inching closer to an uneasy peace in Ukraine
Ukrainian soldiers with a captured Russian T-90M Proryv tank in the Kursk region. Photo courtesy Ministry of Defence of Ukraine/Wikimedia Commons. In December 1990, Serbian rebels declared indep...