A collection of school boards are suing a collection of social media sites for allegedly deliberately hurting students. That’s from the Toronto Star headline, but deliberate harm?? I’m not sure what the lawsuit actually says, and I’m not a lawyer, but I would think that a charge of deliberate harm means they’d have
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: When should you make a Will?
The best time to time to prepare your Last Will is “right now.” The end product is only half the benefit. You also benefit from taking stock of all your assets and responsibilities and from planning how you’d like to take care of your loved ones. When you talk with
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Lies Can Get You A Long Way
Pierre Poilievre keeps repeating a lie. Bruce Arthur writes: The top issue facing Canadians right now, if you ask Canadians, is affordability. Inflation rose, and is falling to a new, higher floor. Housing costs are the end of the fuse on a time bomb. It’s tough out there for a
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Ocean life destruction in BC
Fish biologist Stan Proboszcz of Watershed Watch Salmon Society published an article about the killing of more than 800,000 wild fish in 2022 by open-net salmon farms. According to federal data, this was 16 times more destruction than the last decade’s yearly average. Proboszcz says that 2022 was not an outlier,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Send This Open Letter to The Alberta Medical Association – They defend the quackery that is “Gender Affirming Care”
Thank you to Our Duty Canada for composing this letter. An Open Letter to the Alberta Medical Association (AMA) Regarding the February 1st Statement from the AMA Section of Pediatrics on gender-affirming treatments March 2024 On February 1, 2024 your association released a statement in response to Alberta Premiere
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Anthony Newall et al. study the effects of the influenza vaccine – finding that each percentage point in vaccine uptake saves over a thousand U.S. lives which would otherwise have been lost to the flu and pneumonia. And Kit O’Connell discusses how people suffering
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: One year
One year. Time goes fast. Hug the ones you love.
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Emphasizing hope and inclusion, Naheed Nenshi gets a warm welcome from Edmonton New Democrats
Former Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi may have started his campaign to lead Alberta’s NDP with harsh words about Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party, but he adopted a softer tone last night for his first campaign meeting with Edmonton New Democrats. Mr. Nenshi showed up for the supper-hour event
Continue readingThe Daveberta Podcast: Why Naheed Nenshi is running for the Alberta NDP leadership
Nenshi shares his thoughts on Rakhi Pancholi’s endorsement and what it means to be NDP in 2024 He’s a household name in Calgary, Alberta, and across Canada, and now he’s running to become the next leader of the Alberta NDP. Former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi joins the Daveberta Podcast to
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: March 27, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Raptors’ Jontay Porter subject of NBA’s gambling investigation #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/573j4juk – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Text Editing in Ubuntu Cloud Environment Within a Powershell Environment
Sorry about the headline; it’s mostly a bunch of keywords to help it be found when I need it again. The Problem I have an Ubuntu container in a cloud environment managed by Virtuozzo (on Reclaim Cloud). I access it either using the built-in SSH Console or by using ssh
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Cognitive Tests
I lost an hour of my morning to cognitive tests – just for fun (and a baseline). AARP has a battery of tests you can take. They’re free, but you have to register. They save them and can be retaken monthly to monitor any changes. I’ve been part of a
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What is Probate?
When you name a person in your last will to be the Executor of your Estate, that person sometimes needs to also apply to the Court to be appointed formally as the legal representative of your Estate in order to deal with certain property that you own, potentially like a
Continue readingA View From the Back Bench: A Leader I Could Believe In
On April 7th, 2006, former environment minister Stéphane Dion announced his candidacy for Liberal leader, only two years after embarrassing Paul Martin into keeping him in cabinet to continue his work on what was then still more often called global warming. [ Continued from Part 1 | 2 | 3
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Ford Shatters the Myth of the ‘Fiscal Conservative’
Ford’s new budget offers new evidence that the myth of ‘fiscal conservatism’ is just that: a myth. The post Ford Shatters the Myth of the ‘Fiscal Conservative’ first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: We’re all bridge experts now, aren’t we?
Here is a fascinating analysis of the Baltimore bridge disaster, by someone who actually does know a lot about ships and bridges: My bet is they will get some shipping lanes cleared within two weeks — the Army Corps of Engineers already has a thousand experts working on
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Donald Trump: Can I Get a Big Amen?
From the theatre of the absurd comes Donald Trump’s latest scam. He will be getting royalties from this special edition Bible. Truly, we are in The End Times. Recommend this Post
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Time and the River Flowing
The edge of the Ottawa River in March, 2024. No ice, just reflections.
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