The Best Photo
I'll quote Alan Levine in full:For a refreshing break from the sameness of GenAI imagery, immerse yourself into the still vital act of photography in 50 winning images from All…
Today’s News: Turning America into Oceania
*illustration from Wayne Horton's substack View on Threads It is not just Canadians and other foreign visitors who are running afoul of America's border police. It's now happening to Americans…
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VIRGINIA BREAKS A LEG TO TRANSFER ME OUT OF STATE (2025) By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
On the early morning on May 1, 2025 I was awakened by guards opening my general population cell door at Virginia’s Keen Mountain Correctional (sic!) Center and telling me to…
There’s so much work wrecking health care that Danielle Smith had to double number of ministers responsible to 4!
It’s lot of work to destroy a well-established and popular public health care system, and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith seems to have recognized that reality with her cabinet shuffle early…
A carbon tax on the filthy rich?
The very rich, F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, are different from you and me. Of... The post A carbon tax on the filthy rich? first appeared on Views from the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Natalie Alms reports that Elon Musk's attempt to manufacture a fraud scandal at the Social Security Administration has failed miserably - except to the…
The Fallout Continues
I admit to taking a certain pleasure in reporting bad news about the U.S. That it is being sanctioned by Canadians for its abysmal treatment of such a reliable trading…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from June 15, 2010
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from June 15, 2010 via Wise Law Blog: Bill 168: Ontario Workplace Harassment and Violence Legislation In Force https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2010/06/bill-168-ontario-workplace-harassment.html - Garry J. Wise, Toro...
Part 3: AM I OPTIMISTIC AND, IF SO, HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE
Part 3: Looking for optimism in troubled times So, where are we and where are we headed? Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci, writing in prison in the 1930s when liberal…
things we saw from the road, mostly lies
Billboards seen on the highways between St. Louis, Tulsa, and Kansas City. Lies about pregnancy"Heartbeat heard 18 days after conception"This is the most frequently-seen lie on all the highway signs.…
things we saw from the road, mostly lies
Billboards seen on the highways between St. Louis, Tulsa, and Kansas City. Lies about pregnancy"Heartbeat heard 18 days after conception"This is the most frequently-seen lie on all the highway signs.…
Pushing back against MacKinnon’s awful article
The University of Saskatchewan has been in the news lately. It's where I worked for much of my career, so of course I'm interested in how they are getting along.…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Robert Reich discusses how Donald Trump's absolute lack of inhibition is responsible for the disastrous effects of his regime - and how a…
Ford Cons budget 2025
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Ontario Wills and Estates #LawFact of the Day: Claiming Dependent Support from an Estate #law #legal #EstatePlanning
Family members who were financially dependent upon a deceased person may be entitled to claim support from the deceased’s Estate.If the deceased's will doesn't provide for these obligations, the support…
Jason Kenney, Alberta’s first UCP premier, warns that its second one could kill investment with her separation talk
Let it be acknowledged that while Jason Kenney’s assessment of the danger posed by the United Conservative Party’s continued flirtation with separatism is spot on, it was he, Alberta’s first…