Thoughts & Prayers to [____]
After the terrible attack by on the good people of , we’re sending payers up to the victims. justin bieber posting “praying for israel” using a picture of a destroyed…
Indian author Arundhati Roy may face prosecution for 2010 speech on Kashmir[AJ]
Indian author Arundhati Roy may face prosecution for 2010 speech on Kashmir The New Delhi government approves for the case to proceed before the courts for speech allegedly advocating the…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sameer Elsayed offers a primer on what people need to know about current COVID-19 risks. Mary Van Beusekom discusses the likelihood that long…
Legal Tweet of the Day: October 11, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: How to get the updated COVID-19 vaccine and flu shot in Toronto this fall #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/3226445d – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
I just can’t.
I’ve been listening to CNN and had to pull off the road on the way to the city because I’m too upset to drive. Those words – “babies beheaded” –…
I Needed This Today
Another curious human behaviour: Just by chance, I posted every day for over a week last May rather than my typical range of anywhere from one to twelve posts in…
In Cold Weather, Heat Pumps Outperform Fossil Fuel Furnaces
If you don’t already have a heat pump then you’re going to want one ASAP. These machines that act as heaters in the winter and air conditioning in the summer…
Net Neutrality and the War On News
As the federal government and tech giant Meta (Facebook) continue their entrenched battle over access to, and payment for, Canadian news, we might consider what is really at stake. Both…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Guardianship
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…
A foundation of political and corporate lies
In 2017, construction of Site C could have been halted without wasting more than $10 billion. But influential promoters of the megaproject — including Marc Jaccard, the newly appointed head…
Alberta Waste Management.
One of the tasks, the federal government leaves to the provinces is waste management. It is a task that nobody worried about very much back at the time of confederation.…
The Israel-Hamas War: stories of courage, stories of terror
We are finding out more now about the horror that Israelis experienced as Hamas was hunting and killing them – the stories are incredible, some courageous, others terrifying. The New…
Babylon, once the apple of the UCP’s eye, is fallen! A pre-Halloween tale from the Alberta health care crypt
Just in time for the run-up to Halloween, we learn that Babylon the Great is fallen. The fall of Babylon, as imagined in the 15th Century – the Babylon brand,…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Geometric cats.
War Breaks Out In The Middle East
An evergreen headline, because the war basically never ends. If you google for “Israel killed journalist” it doesn’t know if you want contemporary results, or ones for the infamous incident…
What was Gary Marcus thinking, in that interview with Geoff Hinton?
Background: 60 Minutes did an interview with ‘the Godfather of AI’, Geoffrey Hinton. In response, Gary Marcus wrote a column in which he inserted his own set of responses into…
Games Without Frontiers, War With Tears
The pressure cooker that is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict exploded this weekend. Normally, I stay out of making comment about anything to do with this particular conflict because quite frankly it…
Great Happiness!
I’ve been feeling pretty disgusted lately with our world, given our impending climate doom and the humanitarian crises and wars going on. Those pungent testaments to our profound failures as…
My latest: now find out who Israel’s real friends are
There’s an old Hebrew proverb. It goes something like this: “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” It’s true. And, this…