Just some funny stuff to enjoy this weekend, starting with some good cartoons:Next, I do love the insult comics of the internet: JoJoFromJerz / Are you f'ng kidding me? It…
Toronto’s disappearing mid-century architecture is increasingly dwarfed by glass-and-steel condos built for investors, not occupants. Photo by Can Pac Swire/Flickr. I’ve previously written...
Thanks to Friday’s cabinet reshuffle, more than half of the entire United Conservative Party caucus in the Alberta Legislature is now a member of Premier Danielle Smith’s cabinet! To be…
New one. This is in Israel, directly across the road from kibbutz Be’eri and just up from the Nova site. This is where I was with Amit, a young man…
Fortis BC has been advertising an interesting programme. The programme is a rebate that assists their customers in transitioning to a new “dual fuel” heat pump system. The idea is…
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Bill McKibben rightly describes the Trump regime's attacks on the entire federal regulatory apparatus as vandalism with a plan (which includes making things more…
Meet the new boss, worse than the old boss. Apologies to The Who, but the misapplication of their song lyric is apt: on all matters related to the Jewish state,…
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…
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…
*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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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...
