Assorted content to end your week. – Alex Himelfarb and Trish Hennessy offer their take as to what we should expect out of Ontario’s basic income experiment: Critics rightly argue that basic income is no magic bullet, that indeed there are no magic bullets. The history of the idea of basic income shows it’s no . . . → Read More: Accidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links  Comments are closed   alex himelfarb, Basic Income, brad wall, climate change, don pittis, economy, First Nations, inequality, libs, Minimum wage, oil industry, Privatization, social programs, Trish Hennessy Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Friday Octiber 7, 2016. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Oct 7, 2016 at 6:32am PDT For an Ontario will to be valid, it must be signed by the person making the will and . . . → Read More: Wise Law Blog: LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates Alison Azer does. Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion jeered and gave a thumbs-down gesture in the House of Commons Thursday when the Conservatives raised the case of four Canadian children abducted by their Iranian-Kurdish father, an incident their mother says she witnessed in disbelief and shock. Alison Azer was in the visitors’ gallery in the . . . → Read More: Warren Kinsella: If someone abducted your children, would you have things to say? Massiah v Justices of the Peace Review Council, 2016 ONSC 6191: [49] In my view, the 2012 Panel started from a flawed premise, that is, that where there has been a finding of judicial misconduct, the presumption . . . → Read More: Morton’s Musings: Judicial Officers show presumptively have their costs of a discipline hearing regardless of result Comments are closed We are engaged in a new Cold War. Tom Walkom writes: In the West, the old Cold War was portrayed as a battle between Communist dictatorship and capitalist freedom. Given that Russia has now embraced capitalism, those categories are no longer quite so neat. As a result, the new Cold War is a little . . . → Read More: Northern Reflections: The New Cold War It seems we might be seeing more of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s elitist senate. A committee of senators think they should have their own television channel. It is just a recommendation at the moment but you never know with these things. After all, who would have believed a TV channel that does nothing but burn . . . → Read More: Babel-on-the-Bay: Patience: Elites at work. Watching Donald Trump these days is like watching a mad man riding a roller coaster, and about to fly off the rails.Because while sometimes he sounds supremely confident, brandishing one small poll after the other to make it sound like it just a matter of time before he turns the White House into the . . . → Read More: Montreal Simon: Is Donald Trump’s Campaign Going Off the Rails? Comments are closed donald trump, Ted Cruz, The Death of the Republican Party, The Madness of Trump, The Race for the White House As you know I hate bullies with a passion. Especially those who bully children and seniors, and those who are cruel to animals.So it troubles me that although Canada likes to think of itself as an enlightened country, our laws on animal cruelty are barbarous, and haven't been updated since 1892. And a horrible . . . → Read More: Montreal Simon: Why Our Animal Cruelty Laws Must Be Modernized Greetings and happy Friday gentle readers. Today we have Bach’s BMV 386 complete with the associated organ prelude. So, if you’d like the entire experience as Bach intended, please listen to the prelude first, then the choral work. Enjoy. 🙂
Nun danket alle Gott Mit Herzen, Mund und Händen, Der grosse . . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Baroque Interlude – J.S. Bach Nun danket alle Gott BWV 386 Comments are closed BWV 386, J.S. Bach, music, Nun danket alle Gott, The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude @lisakinsella & me got something from toiling at @HillaryClinton's campaign HQ: colds. If @realDonaldTrump mocks our stamina, we're winning! — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 7, 2016 Sweat Equity Cooperative House-Building in Newfoundland, 1920–1974 C.A.Sharpe and A.J Shawyer “The lack of decent urban housing — a problem neither new nor unique to Newfoundland — was widely recognized during the twentieth century. After numerous piecemeal attempts to find a solution, a remarkable and successful government-supported “sweat equity” program was established in 1952, where homes . . . → Read More: The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Sweat Equity – new ISER book on housing policy #nlpoli PMO announces official name change to "Justin Harper" https://t.co/tX1J18Ffdb #cdnpoli #Stand4Medicare #HealthAccord #JustinHarper — Politics, Re-Spun (@PoliticsReSpun) October 6, 2016 It just used to be that perpetuating Harper’s social, environmental, economic and political policies made me think that Justin Trudeau is merely #TheNewHarper. But we’re way past that, as we approach . . . → Read More: Politics, Re-Spun: Prime Minister Announces Official Name Change to “Justin Harper” Comments are closed Activism, Canada, Class War, conservative party of canada, Executive Overdrive, Health, Liberal Party of Canada, Neoliberal Economics, politics, Society PHOTOS: Alison Redford takes the oath of office as Alberta’s 14th premier. Below: Ms. Redford speaks her first words as premier of Alberta and is greeted by enthusiastic well-wishers as she walks through the Legislature’s Rotunda. Bottom: Gary Mar, whom Ms. Redford defeated for the leadership of the PC party and the premiership of Alberta. . . . → Read More: Alberta Politics: Five years ago today, Alison Redford was sworn in as premier of Alberta … and the wheels fell off the Tory bus lsWe have had lots of politics lately. Sometimes too much. Music is to many of us, as essential as air and water. Bluegrass, Jazz, Folk, Blues, Country, Big Band, Rock and Roll and then crossover Read more… Comments are closed Democracy cannot withstand mass idiocy. It can’t and we’re seeing the proof of it right now south of our border. The Guardian addressed America’s civic illiteracy three weeks ago. Chris Hedges wrote a powerful lament on the subject in 2008. Now Max Boot has penned an ode to what he calls a “confederacy of dunces.” . . . → Read More: The Disaffected Lib: Idiocracy – In the Flesh Comments are closed Here, on how the Libs’ carbon price rollout managed to maximize the resulting sound and fury while signifying little actual progress. For further reading…– Marc Lee offered a reality check on the minimal effect of Justin Trudeau’s price announcement, with reference to Marc Jaccard’s study here (PDF). And Karri Munn-Venn also pointed out how . . . → Read More: Accidental Deliberations: New column day Comments are closed aaron wherry, Bill McKibben, brad wall, carbon tax, climate change, columns, George Monbiot, Justin Trudeau, libs, marc jaccard, marc lee, murray mandryk USA’s Day Of Reckoning – Hidden Secrets Of Money Episode 7 – Mike Maloney Episodes 1 – 6 Comments are closed Jimmy Kimmel’s Lie Witness News. These people are deciding the fate of the world. Relax, sit back, enjoy Comments are closed The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times has endorsed Hillary Clinton even if it’s in a backhanded way. Today’s editorial is headlined, “With the Paris Agreement ratified, the world needs to step up its fight against climate change.” Clear enough. The editorial then goes on to look at the main presidential contenders, Trump . . . → Read More: The Disaffected Lib: The LA Times Endorses Hillary – Sort Of. Comments are closed A report will be released later this week into the use by American forces of depleted uranium (DU) weapons during the conquest of Iraq in 2003. US government documents show that upwards of 181,000 rounds of DU munitions were fired, many of them against “soft” targets such as cars, trucks and infantry emplacements. DU . . . → Read More: The Disaffected Lib: The Depleted Uranium Controversy Surfaces Again Comments are closed Fifty-five years ago, construction crews started one of the tallest earth dams in the world 22 kilometres west of Hudson’s Hope, B.C. It was to flood a valley shaped by the Parsnip and Finlay Rivers. This secluded paradise had been home to the Tsay Keh Dene for millennia. It was where they derived their . . . → Read More: DeSmogBlog: BC Hydro Repeating Painful History with First Nations Comments are closed Yesterday morning I took this picture of racist graffiti on a bus shelter ad on Kingsway at Kilarney. “No Muslims” scrawled with no irony when you read the actual ad. This is NOT my Canada, NOT my East Van! July 1, 2010 A Fine Collection of Canada Day Racism (1) July 15, 2013 Fearing Kate . . . → Read More: Politics, Re-Spun: East Vancouver Racism Comments are closed British Columbia, Canada, Identity, Morality, Psychology, Racism, Society, Vancouver, White supremacy I don’t as a rule write about school and education issues on this blog, but the on going crisis at the Vancouver School Board (my employer) can effect other areas of the city as well. The Park Board shares facilities and fields with the VSB, and instability in one organization can have repercussion at the . . . → Read More: Stuart Mackinnon’s BetterParks for Vancouver: What’s happening at the Vancouver School Board? Comments are closed | ||
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