It’s The End of the World As We Know It
Welcome to the PyroceneFive years ago, I wrote an essay about a succession of catastrophes that had struck British Columbia. First came the heat. In June 2021, a heat dome…
I Am Not A Capitalist
And you probably aren’t either, yet a huge proportion of our society believe themselves to be.
Wednesday Updates: Wildcard dreams, some interesting reads, plus wildfire update
Wildcard Dreams It has been done before, so maybe our Jays can do it again! CBC's Geoff Nixon writes From last place to the post-season? Here's how the 2026 Blue…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Blanketed cat.
Settler Frames, Part 1 Finally Launched
After a 2018 Curator-In-Residency sting at Concordia Unviversity’s fabulous VCR – Visual Collections Repository, where I was tasked with animating the film archives, I was inspired to keep going with…
Look up! Look Waaaaay Up! Plus catching up with the news, and a wildfires update
Set your alarm clocks for Wednesday, August 12 and look up. Look waaaaaay up.In the morning, a planet alignment: View on Threads In the afternoon, a solar eclipse -- with…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates August 4, 2026
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…
Going, going, gone
Every day I read how somebody is changing my country. No peacekeeping? the illegal war on Iran was “worth it”? Sustainability is unsustainable? Speed trumps democracy and the legal and…
The circle of life
Street quitarist sings about garbage pickup schedule
Wise Law’s Top Ten Legal News Post for the Week of August 10, 2026
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More On The Democrats
In my previous post, I wrote about the need for the Democratic Party establishment to lose its fear of embracing progressive policies that actually help people. Afterwards, I came across…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of August 10, 2026
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 10, 2026 from Wise Law on Twitter:OSAP changes are in effect. Here’s how students are being impacted Antisemitism on…
For Iranian Kurds, war is not liberation
Kurds waving flags in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Photo by Levi Meir Clancy/Unsplash. On July 17, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched combined drone and…
Ottawa hastens its retreat from online regulation
Photo by Greg Bulla/Unsplash The ongoing shift from the Trudeau Liberals’ attempts to regulate the Internet to the Carney government’s willingness to retreat from them became even more apparent ...
Europe’s summer is a preview of what’s coming
Wildfire smoke in Spain. Photo by Jaume Moya/Wikimedia Commons. Every year, we are told the latest summer of climate disaster will finally be a wake-up call. Europe has had its…
St. Albert Public Library Board has estimated cost of UCP book ban at $100,000 in 2027
ST. ALBERT, Alberta – The St. Albert Public Library Board has estimated it will cost about $100,000 next year to comply with the United Conservative Party Government’s unprecedented library censorship…
Trump’s irrationality
Tom Nichols is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a contributor to the Atlantic Daily newsletter. He is a professor emeritus of national-security affairs at the U.S. Naval War…
Wildfires and the choices behind them
The feedback dynamics involved are precisely what climate scientists have long warned about: hotter and drier conditions created by a warming climate make forests more combustible, while burning forests release…