TUE, DEC 29 The Syrian family became symbols of the refugee crisis after photos of the family’s boy, who washed up dead, on a Turkish beach, sparked international outrage. NBC This is very encouraging.
Continue readingMonth: January 2016
Yappa Ding Ding: Viva les Piratas Canadienses!
My friend Kate is currently in a 500 km boat race in the Indian Ocean called the Ngalawa Cup – sailing a dugout canoe with outriggers and a single sail. (Ngalawa is the Swahili word for outrigger, and this is a traditional Tanzanian fishing vessel, alt…
Continue readingThe Decarie Report: Jan. 2: Watch for the subtle differences…
In this case The Guardian and the Moncton Times and Transcript (via The Asssociated Press) were reporting on exactly the same story at the same time. But the starting point in The Guardian was, in fact, the starting point of the incident it described. …
Continue readingLeDaro: Alan Kurdi’s Family Begins New Life as Refugees in Canada
TUE, DEC 29The Syrian family became symbols of the refugee crisis after photos of the family’s boy, who washed up dead, on a Turkish beach, sparked international outrage. NBCThis is very encouraging.
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Sil, or Pickled Herring
As the holiday season ebbs, we have begun once again to eat sil, or Swedish pickled herring. Our consumption was interrupted by bouts of stomach flu or some such. Seems there’s a nasty version going around: Lukas and family had it two weeks…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Paul Krugman discusses the connection between concentrated wealth and extreme anti-social political behaviour:Wealth can be bad for your soul. That’s not just a hoary piece of folk wisdom; it’s a conclusi…
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Behold the future
Justin Trudeau is probably the first politician I can think of who knows this stuff already. Also, I’ll bet you are reading this on a Smart Phone. “Ms. Kocar said her first attempts at market research began with trips to Starbucks stores and nail salons, where she would find [social media] users and ask them […]
Continue readingScripturient: Lessons from the paper
There’s a story on page B2 of the January 1 Enterprise Bulletin (not online yet*) that offers us three lessons. Two lessons on how the local media fails us, one on cringe-worthy political ineptitude. Those lessons are: How far the credibility …
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Why Your Students Forgot Everything On Your PowerPoint Slides (Mary Jo Madda)
Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
Mary Jo Madda writes for EdSurge. This post appeared January 19, 2015. Don’t fret, we’ve all been there: You’re up late the night before Thursday and you have to teach a lesson at 8 AM the next day. So, what do you do? Throw…
Montreal Simon: Rona Ambrose and the Outrageous Con Coup
I see that Rona Ambrose really is trying to make it look like her Cons are a kinder gentler version of the Harper Party.For that's the first time the word "peace" has appeared on any Con propaganda.But sadly that new image couldn't b…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: One of These Is So Not Like the Others
One of these is different from the others but just not in a way you might guess – Chicago, Vienna, Istanbul, the North Pole.Yes, it’s the North Pole and what sets it apart from the others this week is that it’s the warmest of the lot even though it is …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Maybe the Bastard Will Demand Royalties
It was only a matter of time. The Orange Slime has been featured in a jihadist recruitment video.A clip of Donald Trump is featured in a purported new recruitment video released by Al-Shabaab, the terrorist group based in Somalia.The GOP presidential c…
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Winter is coming, except when it isn’t
Good Lord. Look, pal, we are all sorry you had to take time out from rolling around naked in piles of money to type up a too-long, too-self-involved, too-boring blog post about YOUR ALL-CAPS LATEST BOOK TITLE. But we are confident your agent will now know how to make full and frequent use of the […]
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: And one determined dipper.
Over the years we have realized that most of our regular readers of Babel-on-the-Bay are among the more progressive liberals. We certainly enjoy a healthy level of readership and get a good number of supportive e-mails from them. The practice of rabble.ca picking up some of our commentaries has also led to some very interesting […]
Continue readingScripturient: Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me…
Turning 64, as in the 1967 Beatles’ song, once seemed so distant that it it was as remote as flying cars and jet packs. By the time I reached that age, I thought, we’d have a moon base colony, orbiting hotels as in 2001, A Space Odyssey, an…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – Andrea Dworkin
“Feminism requires precisely what misogyny destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power.”
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Continue readingIn-Sights: Proceeding without caution
Even slightly aware BC citizens know that Premier Clark and her accomplices are incompetent. Liberal managers include not a single person capable of completing a basic course in strategic decision making. The result is a litany of failed designs, misse…
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Calgary Sun, angry conservatives try to spin a glorified typographical error into the first political brouhaha of 2016
PHOTOS: Independent Calgary-Bow MLA Deborah Drever in a recent shot grabbed from her Facebook page. Below: Wildrose Finance Critic Derek Fildebrand (grabbed from Facebook) and PC interim Leader Ric McIver (from Wikipedia). The Calgary Sun called it “…
Continue readingcartoon life: Hey Word Swag…
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