In Need of a Church of the Covid Informed
This is just bananas, but another county in NY State banned masks. From this article, "Nassau lawmakers on Monday approved a bill making it a misdemeanor--punishable by up to $1,000…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of August 6, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 6, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter:Ontario Small Claims Court orders maximum damages for "pedophile" libels targeting queer communitySeveral…
Today’s News: RFK and the dead bear cub
This is even weirder than the dead brain worm story, and that's saying a lot. And yes, that's Roseanne Barr who he is talking to: The Kennedys: We’ve have enough…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Gillian Steward asks how many communities need to be destroyed for the UCP and other climate denialists to start even pretending to care -…
The measure of our evil
Gazan children. Photo by gloucester2gaza/Wikimedia Commons. “It’s been 300 days since October 7—the deadliest attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust,” posted UK Foreign Secretary ...
Saturday Photo, a little late: A Rose by Any Other Name…
...would smell as sweet, so said the Bard.But what happens when people don't agree on how you spell your name?On my birth certificate, my name is Mary McGowan, daughter of…
The Psychology of Diving into Polluted Water
We need external organizations to monitor for safety without any conflicts of interest! And we need to stop throwing people into dangerous situations as if human beings are expendable, expecting…
We Give Value To The Worthless
I am currently reading a book by Michael Lewis called Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of A New Tycoon. A story about Samuel Bankman Fried and his FTX crypto-exchange,…
On The Edge
The world is on a knife's edge. Michael Harris writes:With the assassination of the political leader of Hamas in Tehran, Iran is vowing revenge against Israel. No one knows what…
On The Edge
The world is on a knife's edge. Michael Harris writes:With the assassination of the political leader of Hamas in Tehran, Iran is vowing revenge against Israel. No one knows what…
Today’s News: Poilievre’s "Bot-gate" scandal
Hundreds of very excited twitter posts today from people from around the world talking about a recent Pierre Poilievre rally in Kirkland Lake Ontario. But they're all just fake "bots".…
Simplistic solutions for complex problems — they seldom work
BC Conservatives left a flyer at my door promoting their candidate in a North Vancouver constituency. Were the BC Conservatives to form government, British Columbia would be far different. Not…
How badly did Maduro lose?
Last Monday, Venezuela’s National Electoral Council announced that the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, had comfortably... The post How badly did Maduro lose? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Julia Simone-Rutgers highlights how extreme heat (which is only getting worse) already looms as a major cause of death and disruption in Canada.…
About Sex Testing and The Olympics
There's been a whole lot of fuss made over a couple of athletes in the Olympics who don't appear female enough to satisfy some people that they are in fact…
Trump and the Trojans
Donald Trump — aging, obese convicted felon with more criminal trials pending, serial liar, serial adulterer, business fraud, con man, tax cheat, rapist who boasted about his sexual assaults, misogynist…
Weekend funnies and animal crackers
Hope your mood is Quokka #7 at least. And enjoy some of the other good stuff I have collected over the past few weeks.First up, so to speak - the…
May I Make a Suggestion?
Where’s our news? I ask because I’ve noticed that the UCP is adept at flooding the media with good news stories about what they’re going to do to help Albertans…
Income tax and rising inequality
In the 1960's, tax expert Kenneth Carter headed a Royal Commission that examined Canada's income tax system. Among many other things, Carter's group was asked to report on "changes that…