TweetFollowing out successful first #yegvote Google Hangout a few weeks ago, Mack Male, Ryan Hastman, and I gathered online for the second #yegvote Google Hangout focusing on this October’s municipal elections in Edmonton. In this week’s hangout, we chatted about everything from the strategies of the three main mayoral candidates,
Continue readingwmtc: what i’m reading: two youth novels
There is so much truly excellent youth fiction out these days, and it’s not all vampires and zombies. Here are two wonderful teen novels in two totally different veins. There Is No Dog, Meg Rossoff, 2011 Like many excellent novels, Meg Rosoff’s There Is No Dog defies easy classification. It’s
Continue readingMorton's Musings: In 1960 Detroit had the highest per capita income in America
And a population of two million. Now with 700,000, half functionally illiterate, the city is bankrupt. But the suburbs are fine. Troy is fantastically wealthy and Auburn Hills is nice. But if you live in Troy you don't go to Detroit. What happened was the city died and the donut
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: How Telus is misrepresenting figures to justify price-gouging
This week a new report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development confirmed what Canadians have been saying for years: that we pay some of the highest prices in the industrialized world for some of the worst cell phone service. Despite the fact that the data supports many of
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Krugman Warns of China’s Unstable Economy. Will Ottawa Listen?
Maybe Steve Harper picked a bad moment to bind Canada’s economic future to China’s. The way Paul Krugman sees it, China has a structural time bomb within its economy and it’s ready to blow: China …seems to invest only to expand its future ability to invest even more. America, admittedly
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Legendary White House Correspondent, Helen Thomas, Dead at 92
She covered every administration from Kennedy to Obama and ruffled a few feathers along the way. Helen Thomas, whose bottomless curiosity and unquenchable drive made her a prominent White House reporter at a time when men dominated the profession, died Saturday at her apartment in Washington. She was 92. Her
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Off the grid
Been without power and phone for a day – so we’re heading back to TeeDot a day early. Got a lot of meat to get into a freezer! Oh, and all those extreme weather/climate claims? Can’t possibly be true.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The End of Growth
It’s not the custom of people my age to go back and re-educate themselves on economics and I know why – ugh! I thought I understood economics from three or four Econ courses I did in undergrad (psst, I did really, really well on them too). Here’s the thing. In
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6260…Boys In Skirts
Great Britain is going thru a heat wave. A heat wave in Great Britain btw means the temp is close to 20. The management at Whitchurch High School in Cardiff, Wales, told the boys there that they canna wear shorts. The Mirror reports that 17 grade 10 students at Gareth
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 20: I really don’t want to say this, but….
…it has to be said.I do not think columnist George Sullivan is an evil man. I’m sure he does not think of himself as being prejudiced. My own feeling is that we are all of us prejudiced more than we care to think we are. But Sullivan’s column of yesterday, July
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jim Stanford discusses the OECD’s findings that job protection actually improves better employment outcomes – while “flexible” labour markets serve only to ensure less opportunity for workers. And Sid Ryan makes the case for premiers to reject a low-wage agenda. – Oil spills
Continue readingOn Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind's Eye: Are You a Mark?………….Issue 1
It is common in the wrestling industry to hear someone being called a “mark”. There is lots of debate about what this means exactly, but usually, and for the purposes of this humble blog, a “mark” is someone who buys what is being sold to them without question or digging
Continue readingOn Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind's Eye: Are You a Mark?………….Issue 1
It is common in the wrestling industry to hear someone being called a “mark”. There is lots of debate about what this means exactly, but usually, and for the purposes of this humble blog, a “mark” is someone who buys what is being sold to them without question or digging
Continue readingOn Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind's Eye: Are You a Mark?………….Issue 1
It is common in the wrestling industry to hear someone being called a “mark”. There is lots of debate about what this means exactly, but usually, and for the purposes of this humble blog, a “mark” is someone who buys what is being sold to them without …
Continue readingDemocratic Voting Canada: Incremental approach to voting reform
The direct approach to electoral reform has failed. So far 4 provincial PR referendums have gone down in flames. Given Einstein’s definition of insanity — repeating the same thing over and over, expecting different results — walking into a federal referendum buzz-saw at this point in the game is crazy.
Continue readingDemocratic Voting Canada: Vote-reform referendum Catch-22
Canadians are divided three ways on voting reform: The status quo (FPP) Proportional representation (PR) None of the above (but open to PV ranked-ballot compromise) This means any two-way referendum will likely produce a false FPP victory due to vote splitting. Referendum Catch-22 This is how two-way referendums tend to
Continue readingLeDaro: Barack Obama on Trayvon Martin’s case
I am very impressed by the stand Barack Obama took on the case of Trayvon Martin who was murdered by George Zimmerman. “You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Heaven knows: the NEB doesn’t.
When a friend called from Calgary earlier this year to tell us she had been evacuated from her beautiful home on the Bow River, she complained about the water covering her front lawn. Torontonians could understand how she felt when they saw the Don River cover the southern reaches of
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: Man, Licia Corbella is a shitty journalist
I haz free speech UPDATE: In light of the controversy ignited by Calgary Herald’s most out-of-touch journo, blaming Vancouver for Kelly Montieth’s death, I thought I’d go back in LFR’s wayback machine and present another gem from Ms. Corbella sometime in the past year or so. I don’t know how I
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