Bonne fete!
Happy birthday to the best Prime Minister Canada has ever had!
Weekend funny stuff: Some jokes and clips, Trump funnies, Poilievre funnies, and animal crackers
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Musical interlude
Farley Venn - Nothing Seems To Last
Legal News Post of the Day: January 10, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Trump escapes prison, fines in felony hush-money case #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/Dfwy6TyVlX - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Joe Lo reports on Oxfam's researching that the global 1% have already burned through more than their fair share of a sustainable carbon budget…
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from June 20, 2012
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from June 20, 2012 via Wise Law Blog: Will Microsoft's Surface be the Tablet for Lawyers? https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2012/06/why-microsofts-surface-tablet-shames-pc.html - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toron...
No joke! We counted: Alberta Health Services has had 12 chief executive officers since 2008!
Message to Alberta Health Services’ new interim chief executive officer and to whomever follows him as CEO: “Don’t let the revolving door hit you on the way out!” How many…
Writing about the fires: "Her grief rose upwards and joined the blackness of the sky"
This puts the LA fires into perspective, I think. I hadn't realized the numbers were so large:These numbers blow my mind: Population of LA County: 9.33M Population of California: 38.97M…
Privatizing $24 billion public dollars
IEA says energy efficiency provides some of the quickest and most cost-effective CO2 mitigation options while lowering energy bills and strengthening energy security. Because the immediate benefits of efficiency go…
That It Should Come To This
Who would have thought, eh?H/t MoudakisAlso, I do hope Canada is planning a more robust response to the bully than is being reported thus far:Canada is looking at levying retaliatory…
Start the year off warmly
2020 started with half of Australia on fire, it raining cats and dogs, once in a century snowfalls, planes being shot out of the sky,
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Rebecca Solnit writes about the many warnings and precedents which foretold California's current wildfires - and the importance of recognizing the cost of…
On the fear of nationalism
Illustration by Duncan Macpherson The following is a digitized version of an article from Canadian Dimension’s print archive, which is now available for the first time through the ...
Legal News Post of the Day: January 9, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Survey shows more newcomers choose immigration consultants over lawyers — and that can be risky, experts say #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/PxeR0BmgE3 - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit…
Review: People of the Sea
Irish thought exploded into my consciousness during my undergrad. I read Seamus Heaney’s first collection of poetry within a few weeks of being introduced to… The post Review: People of…
Charles Taylor: Nationalism and independence
The following is a digitized version of an article from Canadian Dimension’s print archive, which is now available for the first time through the University of Manitoba Dig...
Ontario Wills and Estates #LawFact of the Day: How Much are Ontario Probate Fees?
Ontario’s probate fees are $250 for the first $50,000 of an estate’s value and $15 for each additional $1,000.These fees are properly referred to as Estate Administration Taxes. These taxes…
"I didn’t have Trump becoming an open-border activist on my 2025 Bingo card, but here we are."
The quote is from David Moscrop's excellent piece today: David Moscrop /It’s Time for Canada to Get the Bomb (Not Really) Threats against Canadian sovereignty from the incoming Trump administration…