My latest: follow the money
Follow the money. In any scandal, that’s the rule: follow the money. When you see who is paying, and who is benefiting, you learn plenty. Yesterday, this newspaper followed the…
Hawaiian Battery Better Than Coal
Hawaii just became an even better place to live thanks to cleaner air. The state recently decommissioned their coal power plant and replaced it with a much nicer looking battery…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: If a family member has put money into an investment in your name and you have co-signed on changes to the investment, does the investment belong to you?
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: If a family member has put money into an investment in your name and you have co-signed on changes to the investment, does the…
Events in Iraq and Niger put spotlight on Canadian troops abroad
Special Forces Operators from the Canadian Special Operations Regiment alongside soldiers from the Forces Armées Nigériennes in Niger, 2016. Photo courtesy Canadian Armed Forces/Facebook. In the latest episode of On…
Champion Of The Press?
Pierre Poilievre is suggesting that Justin Trudeau is an enemy of the press. Max Fawcett writes: Poilievre’s attempt to gaslight an entire country into believing he actually cares about things…
Vaccines are Still Part of the Solution
The XBB booster can help keep you out of the hospital! Why don’t we understand that? From Prof Raywat Deonandan, Epidemiologist & Research Chair at the University of Ottawa: “There…
A potentially deadly ‘Tyleonot’ gong show: Can Alberta’s UCP government be trusted to do anything right?
Prediction: Every remaining drop of the screwball Turkish children’s medicine bought by Alberta’s United Conservative Party last year for give or take $100 million just to own the Libs is…
TBT (early)
#TBT: the Chretien war room greets him the day after his big win, October 1993.
My latest: paid Palestine “protesters”
They’re being paid to protest. What many have suspected has now been confirmed by this newspaper and a few courageous Canadians: pro-Palestine – and, increasingly, pro-Hamas – protestors are being…
It is time for you to bear witness.
This is some of what I saw. It is horrible but some of us – perhaps you – are called to bear witness, and act. Here.
Musings on Atheism, Belief, and Statues
The website godchecker.com lists roughly 4,000 “weird and wonderful Gods, Supreme Beings, Demons, Spirits and Fabulous Beasts” which have been worshipped since the beginning of recorded history. Many are still…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jon Henley reports on new research showing that adopting right-wing policies does nothing to help left-of-centre parties win votes (while producing disastrous effects…
Nazis, f**k off!
Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Henry Rollins are of Jewish descent. Joey and Tommy Ramone were Jews. So was Richard Hell and the Dictators. So is Fat Mike of NOFX. Brett…
A New Vaccine Study is Giving Me Hope!
Amazing news about a new vaccine methodology! Eric Topol gave a brief rundown of the vaccine and highlighted the study: “Engineered secretory IgA antibodies vs Omicron (BA,1, BA.2, BA.5) were…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 10, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Sunwing passengers still awaiting compensation more than a year after vacation flight disruptions #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews http://tinyurl.com/5x4nfyjm – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates January 9, 2024
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What is an Executor?
What is an Executor? An Executor is the person who’s the legal representative of your Estate. After you die, your Executor is responsible for taking all of the assets and…
Family time and early education
We did not have much in the way of family time for most of the year, making up for it with an annual drive to Florida to visit my grandparents,…
Misdirected energy policies
In 2018, BC Hydro began discouraging the production of solar power in British Columbia. Customers with solar panels had been allowed a two-way connection to the grid. When they fed…
Building on the Brand.
Can you believe that the liberals in Ontario will have a new leader next week and the Ford conservatives are going to pay to introduce her to Ontario voters. Ford…