Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Markham Hislop offers up his apologies for cheerleading for the TransMountain pipeline – both due to its immensely increased price tag, and…
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 2, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Poilievre hints to police he would use notwithstanding clause to change justice laws #law #legal #LawTwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/mr3zc4ze – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
How Solar Supports Ukraine
In the ongoing war caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine power plants have been attacked by both sides to hurt military and civilian operations. Beyond the obvious horrors of war…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What is the difference between a Last Will and a Power of Attorney? Do I need both?
A Last Will only determines what happens to your property after you have passed. A Power of Attorney is used to appoint someone to manage your property and your medical…
Will a landmark war crimes trial usher in an era of corporate accountability?
A man examining a pipeline in Paloch, South Sudan, built on land once used for agriculture. Photo by Sven Torfinn. A groundbreaking criminal case against a multinational company accused of…
UCP executes screeching reversal of plan to stop funding low-income transit pass program
Less than 24 hours after the Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government pulled the plug on low-income transit programs in Edmonton and Calgary, Seniors, Community and Social Services Minister Jason Nixon…
The baby girl’s name list 2023, from A to Zrylie
Every year, the government of Alberta does something that even Danielle Smith can’t ruin: the baby name list. I love this list, not only because it is vastly amusing and…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Thom Hartmann discusses how conservative policies and rhetoric both kill people even looking only at homicides and suicides. Cory Doctorow points out how…
Bike Lanes are Really Good for Businesses (seriously, there are too many studies proving this)
Bike lanes are good for business and everybody knows it, except for business owners and local politicians afraid for of small minded businesses. Over at Business Insider they’re running an…
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 1, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario woman surprised after 20-year-old government fines suddenly tank credit score #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/ykhz67w3 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
My latest: follow the Hamas money
The anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protestors are getting paid to protest. Not all of them. But enough of them – enough to raise concerns about the “reality” of what we are seeing…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Guardianship of your Children in your Last Will
You can definitely name somebody in your last will to have custody and guardianship of your minor children in the event both of the parents pass away. Now, the appointment…
Why Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse is running for the Alberta NDP leadership
Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse joins the Daveberta Podcast to share why she is running to succeed Rachel Notley as leader of Alberta’s NDP and why she feels so passionately about protecting…
Yup. Still Here. Still Need to Clean the Air.
Covid has been implicated in creating more cases of PANDAS – pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections. A 9-year-old girl dramatically changed personality after a viral infection she…
UPDATED: Patterns – Part 2
In my previous post I discussed how media shape the narratives by which we interpret the world. I used as its example the near-hysteria surrounding changes in the capital-gains attribution…
Patterns – Part 2
In my previous post I discussed how media shape the narratives by which we interpret the world. I used as its example the near-hysteria surrounding changes in the capital-gains attribution…
The Perfect Image of Pierre Poilievre
A few days ago, Pierre Poilievre’s official social media channels shared a fairly generic campaign image of him enjoying the services of a small business in Sydney, Nova Scotia. The…
First we take Manhattan
Student encampment at Columbia University. Photo courtesy Columbia Students for Justice for Palestine/X. There are snipers on the roof of the school where I got my MA. There are police…
Happy birthday, Daisy!
Daisy Group is 18! We’ve had some great clients and colleagues over those many years, and we’re still growing – with two new Daisy folks hired just this week! Happy…
Megaproject madness
Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, Executive Chairman and co-founder of Oxford Global Projects has written about proponents getting large undertakings approved by using “strategic misrepresentation” when they conjure up budgets. Strategic misrepresentation…