Climate crisis failure
According to IEA, Canada’s per capita emissions of methane are almost three time the global average, more than half from the energy sector. Methane releases in Canada are likely worse…
My latest: ten things our leaders can do about hate
Hate is everywhere, these days. How to stop it? Jew hatred is statistically the worst, of course, with anti-Semitic crimes and incidents happening everywhere on a near-daily basis. But the…
Creating a Cloud Server and Acessing with SSH Keys Using Windows Powershell on Hetzner
Make sure you have Powershell version 5.1 or better Open Powershell, type: $PSVersionTable.PSVersion Install update if you don’t have it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell-on-windows Make sure you have the SSH service installed Type:…
It’s a Ruse!
We have to acknowledge how far we’ve gone down the rabbit hole of lies to be able to ignore this Covid wave that’s almost reaching the highest peak of hospitalizations.…
No, Ms. Kheiriddin, You’re Quite Wrong
Over at Conservative propaganda rag “National Post”, we have Tasha Kheiriddin trying to turn the lack of attention on the civil war going on in Sudan into “why criticizing Israel’s…
A Walk In The Country
One of the pleasures of my retired life is going out for long walks with former colleagues. Having taught at the same school, we have known each other for many…
Freeland’s Folly.
Maybe we never realized that finance minister and deputy prime minister Cynthia Freeland was so competitive. In her fall economic-statement the other day, she seemed to be competing with conservative…
"Conservative’ means never having to say you’re sorry
The stupid, it burns! Yesterday following that awful crash at the Niagara Falls border crossing, somebody in Pierre Poilievre’s office was listening to Fox News when they jumped the gun…
Taming plastics
What would we do without plastics? Perhaps the greatest material humanity ever invented. They are used for everything from furniture to DVDs to heart valves to wind turbines, widely used…
Mnusical interlude
Grace – Not Over Yet
And the winner is
Personal ranking of the five most irritating groups on social media, in descending order: 5. All partisans – all 4. Pro-convoy loons 3. “Anti-Zionist” haters 2. Anti-vax nutcases 1. TruAnon…
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 24, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: 2,000 parents sign letter expressing concerns of ‘escalating incidents of antisemitism’ at Toronto schools #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/2ka3x7yk – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
A Brief History of Letting it Rip
Something, at some time, eventually, will be the last straw that finally gets people everywhere to change their behaviour around Covid. This is where I live, and I rarely see…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from March 25, 2010
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from March 25, 2010 via Wise Law Blog: On Health Care Reform, Sex Offenders and Viagra https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2010/03/on-health-care-reform-sex-offenders-and.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
Just One Vote, Thank You.
Isn’t it generous of the nebbishes who think they run the liberal party in Ontario? They are letting us suckers tell them our second, third and even fourth choice for…
Between the sea and the Jordan …
Being an admirer of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, I read with interest a recent column of his in The New York Times about the Palestine situation. One thing that particularly…
Emissions gap is really an emissions canyon
Progress in dealing with climate change is too slow to meet stated climate goals. The world is on course to see global temperatures rise as much as 2.9°C above preindustrial…
Premature PP Blew It
Leader of the Official Opposition shared Fox News BS in Parliament. Premature PP blew it.He got tricked by far-right Fox News propaganda and declared a terrorist incident when a spectacularly…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Stephanie Soucheray examines how COVID-19 can cause lasting damage to the brain even without causing severe initial symptoms, while the British Heart…