Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – The Honest Sorceror points out the obvious unsustainability of exponential growth in resource extraction when the mass of inanimate man-made objects already exceeds…
The Price of Dispensing With The Monarchy
Over on Musk’s Xitter site, I spotted the following post basically arguing that we should dispense with the Monarchy in Canada. Let me start off by saying that I’m sympathetic…
Legal Tweet of the Day: August 25, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani surrenders in Georgia election case #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/2fn5zf2u – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Maine art.
Two done so far.
What the life and death of Yevgeny Prigozhin tells us about modern Russia
Russian oligarch and leader of the Wagner private military company Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died in a plane crash on August 23. Photo by Mikhail Mettsel/TASS. “A dead man walking” was…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from May 27, 2008
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from May 27, 2008 via Wise Law Blog: A Tale of Three Judges: The Need for Family Law Reform in Ontario https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2008/05/tale-of-three-judges-need-for-family.html – Garry J.…
Ford Fails Fallacious.
He cannot win his Greenbelt argument and he doesn’t know when to shut up. Every time the Ontario premier opens his mouth in public, he sticks a foot in his…
A journalist who understands journalism
After 28 years as a key contributor at the Georgia Straight, Charlie Smith moved to Pancouver, a new arts and culture media outlet that aims to “shed light on how…
EU: Burned by Oil
‘Excess’ gas prices represent the extraction from the pockets of consumers to oil shareholders. And no, it has nothing to do with a carbon tax in Canada. The post EU:…
Legal Tweet of the Day: August 24, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Donald Trump will surrender at the Fulton County jail on Thursday evening, with a bond agreement already agreed on #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN https://tinyurl.com/4x3v3ys4 – Garry J. Wise,…
The Charlebois Shuffle
Dalhousie University academic and food distribution and policy researcher Sylvain Charlebois, also known as the Food Professor. Photo courtesy The Food Professor/X. I think I may have broken Sylvain “The…
Pictures, Not Words
While a flurry of columns, articles and editorials continue to rail against the Doug Ford cabal theft of Greenbelt lands, I thought that a couple of editorial cartoons might be…
Estimated 24,000 jobs, $33B in investments at risk because of renewables freeze: Pembina Institute
An estimated 24,000 jobs and $33-billion in investments are at risk because of the Alberta Government’s seven-month moratorium on renewable energy development, the Pembina Institute said this morning. Pembina Institute…
A Lot Depends On The Alternative
The conventional wisdom is that Justin Trudeau is in the twilight of his political career. Michael Harris doesn’t believe it. He writes: The way most pollsters and pundits and all…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: How important is it to have a Will if you are in your 30s and don’t have many assets?
Having a Last Will is still important, even if you are young. There is no better way to provide for your family and your future. You can create a Last…
On Student Absences
I’ve been thinking about the concern with kids not going to school for reasons beyond the rampant illnesses caused by letting a highly-infectious virus run wild. The Fortune article suggests…
Ford’s Fall Guy.
In the time-honoured tradition of sleazy politics, Ryan Amato, who, until the turfing, was chief of staff to the Ontario housing minister, got turfed out the back door at Queen’s…
Today is last day on job for AHS VP Deb Gordon, highest-ranking woman in the province-wide health agency
On Aug. 18, Alberta Health Services President and CEO Mauro Chies sent a memorandum to the province-wide public health care agency’s senior managers telling them that the highest ranking woman…
Sortition—assembling citizens
A recent essay in The New York Times prompts me once again to write about a favourite topic of mine, namely citizens’ assemblies. The essay, by Adam Grant, was entitled…