It’s been quite awhile since I’ve posted one of these notices. Please re-welcome back to blogging (and to Progressive Bloggers) David Graham and his new blog:“A View From The Back Bench” David was one of our earliest blogging affiliates way back in 2005 when Progressive Bloggers got off the ground.
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Talk about embarrassing! Jim Dinning lends his faded credibility to Danielle Smith’s pension snake oil scam
What a pathetic coda to the respectable if not quite illustrious political career of Jim Dinning! Mr. Dinning at last week’s news conference about the Alberta government’s effort to hijack more than half the Canada Pension Plan fund (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). Once the whiz kid and heir apparent of Alberta’s
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: India—too big to hold accountable?
The world isn’t a fair place. The rule of law doesn’t apply globally. Might is often right. This reality overarches Canada’s accusation that the Indian government orchestrated the murder/assassination of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar as he left his temple in Surrey. If the evidence is there, then PM Trudeau
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Saima Iqbal discusses new research showing how much of the COVID-19 virus people emit while contagious. And Erica Edwards reports on the development of blood tests to help confirm the biological basis of long COVID. – Emile Torres warns that the chaotic
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: OMG. Liberal Speaker Encourages House to Give Ovation to Nazi.
That's bad. Remember when Lyle Stewart of the SaskParty invited an infamous murderer to the Throne Speech a few months ago too?#skpoli — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) September 25, 2023 The basic dynamic of Canadian politics right now is the Liberals celebrated a Nazi through incredible incompetence, seven months after some
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: September 26, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Calgary bylaw aimed at protecting LGBTQ events faces legal challenge #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/yjevyvmj – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: St. Ignatius of Loyola
This is St. Ignatius of Loyola Chapel in Montreal, where my parents were married, where I was baptized, where I attended Loyola High on my first day, where family funerals have taken place. It was painted by our friend Stew Jones and given to me by E. for my birthday
Continue readingThings Are Good: It’s Good to Say No
Helping people feels good and it’s easy to say yes to helping others; however, it’s not always the best course of action. Of course, this happens very often in the work environment where you and your overworked coworkers need more time to complete tasks. If you keep saying yes to
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: ‘Nuff Said
And today’s thought comes us from the mighty Moudakis: Recommend this Post
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Canadian Parents (Finally) Push Back Against Gender Cultism
Jonathan Kay writes on Canadians finally waking up to the harms of gender ideology and how it is in our institutions. It is a quick necessary read, go to the Quillette and read the whole thing. “The most obvious answer is that this movement does real, observable harm, by
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Teaching Public Health
Organizations have done such a bad job of explaining Covid to the public over the last almost four years, that it will be difficult to ever get mitigations back in place. Research director with a PhD in education, Dr. Sean Mullen said incredulously, “They said herd immunity would work. Then hybrid
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay : Before the Fall.
Last Friday (September 22) there was a large picture above the fold of the front page of the Toronto Star. It was captioned: ‘It was a mistake’. It was a picture of a steely-eyed, stony-faced Ontario premier Doug Ford. This was not a picture of a contrite and apologetic premier.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: kick the Nazi out
They weren’t an army division. They were actually a criminal organization. That was what the Nuremberg Trials called the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS: Criminals, not soldiers, who found themself in the spotlight on Parliament Hill on Friday when former 14th Waffen member Yaroslav Hunka was invited to
Continue readingIn This Corner: Grandfatherhood: The final frontier
So, I’ve got big news. I think. I’m going to be a grandfather for the first time. Congratulations, people tell me. Um, sure, I say. Don’t get me wrong. I am delighted that my youngest son and his towering bride (seriously, the girl is at least seven feet tall) have
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bruce Arthur discusses how last week’s rallies for bigotry are reflective of a broader social illness which is being encouraged by right-wing parties and politicians. And Charlie Angus writes about his experience on the receiving end of violent authoritarian rhetoric and personal threats.
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Making AWS S3 Files Publicly Accessible
I stored some images in S3 but couldn’t use them; if I tried to follow the link, I would get ‘permission denied’ errors. AWS documentation is a nightmare, so I’m putting the answer here, so I can find it again. S3 contents are stored in ‘buckets’. Each bucket has a
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Setting Up Auto-Update for Let’s Encrypt
Sometimes when you follow the instructions to set up a web server (for example, a PeerTube installation, or OnlyOffice installation) they show you how to set up Let’s Encrypt so you can get SSL (ie., so your pages run on secure HTTPS) but not how to make sure the SSL
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: The $334 Billion Assumption or Why Smith’s APP is a Non-Starter
Well that inspires confidence. When LifeWorks respectfully submitted its report to the Smith government outlining how Alberta could move from CPP to an Alberta Pension Plan, the executive summary was signed by someone who preferred to remain anonymous, hence their signature was “Redacted to protect privacy.” Perhaps Anonymous was
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: September 25, 2023
Nebraska Mother Who Gave Abortion Pills to Teen Daughter Gets 2 Years in Prison #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://tinyurl.com/mutnf2fw – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: The far right and its enablers are lying to you
It’s pretty clear that a lot of people don’t understand the way that more extreme elements on the right try to build support for their agenda of harm and violence and a base to pursue it by organizing things like the anti-queer/anti-trans actions across the country last week and the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Not In A Forgiving Mood
As I wrote in my previous post, I am not in a forgiving mood, now that Doug Ford, in order to desperately try to salvage his and his government’s reputation, has promised to restore and never again touch the Greenbelt. Judging by a flurry of letters appearing in the
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