People ask me how I can write for a tabloid. I say: ”How could I not?” A classic, here. (And more on Egypt, and related matters, in this Sunday’s Sun column. Yes, a tabloid.)
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: The Lessons I Have Learned in My Life of Caregiving
For some reason, last night our alarm clock rang at 4am. My husband quietly cursed and fumbled to turn it off. We both lay awake after that and quite soon, I could hear his deep and measured breathing. He was asleep, but I was alert in the dark. The words
Continue readingThings Are Good: Kenya Medics Increase Reach Thanks to Bicycles
Bikes4Care is an initiative in Kenya that helps medics and other health care workers get to more places thanks to bicycles. It’s a simple and effective concept to get people improved access to health services, check out this video on the pedal medics: From Al Jazeera.
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6210…Happy America Day!!!
Isn’t that what they call it? Whatever they call it July 4th is the big day for our Yankee friends. Heck it is so big that Raymour and Flanagan are having their biggest sale ever. Upworthy offers the above historical tribute to that not-so-bad country to the south of Soviet
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6209…Curler Caught Juicing
Yeah, I don’t get it either but The National Post reports that Matt Dumontelle has been suspended for two years coz he tested positive for Methandienone Metabolites at the World’s in Victoria earlier this year.He is the dude on the far left.Oy and very vey.WFDS
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: “We Are Sleepwalking To Disaster . . " *
Many in the blogosphere are doing a stellar job covering the climate-change beat, including The Disaffected Lib, who has had several recent thought-provoking posts on the subject. So I really have nothing new or insightful to add, other than to draw your attention to a story covered in today’s Star,
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Austerity Kills
In their book, The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills, David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu demonstrate that, around the world, austerity has had devastating consequences on public health. Consider what economic shock therapy accomplished in the Soviet Union: The Soviet economy collapsed in the early 1990s, erasing countless jobs. Ironically, those
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Egyptian President Morsi Gets the Hook! Army Steps In As Demands For His Resignation Grew.
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger A relatively short lived term as President was the fate of Mohammed Morsi who outraged millions of Egyptians with his style of governance. Democracy was won in a democratic seeking revolution just two years ago. Guardian reporters Patrick Kingsley and Martin Chulov filed this report from Cairo.(VIDEO)
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Happy 4th of July – Oh btw America, Welfare *Promotes* Independence.
“When we see the expansion of the dependency class in America and you add this to the 79 other means tested programs that we have in the United States, each time you add another brick to that wall, it’s a barrier to people that might go out and succeed. ”
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Technology Integration in K-12
I was asked, I’m curious as to what you think the three most important things for newteachers to know about technology integration in k-12? 1. Community – teaching can be a lonely profession, and it’s easy to think you face problems nobody else faces. One of the greatest aspect of
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: A long way from best in class #nlpoli
Cathy Bennett’s leadership launch event was organized as one would expect. Her speech was scripted and, hand gestures and all, well rehearsed. From the start there was the flush of jargon that one expects these days from business people getting into politics. A “decision process’ had led her to this
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Decline of the Fish Regime
Well I can only imagine the scene in the dungeon of the PMO tonight.A desperate Stephen Harper trying to decide which one of his multiple personalities might make Canadians love him again.Only to receive the devastating news eh? An overwhelming number of Canadians don't care whether he plays Nero or Mother
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Northern Lights Animation
I have a few more of these aurora animations to create and upload to YouTube. Here’s a fun one to start with tonight though.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Bolivian President Evo Morales Plane Diverted Under US Pressure
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger We are experiencing a time where bizarre is the new norm. Bolivia’s President Evo Morales flight home from a Russian visit was detained, stalled, diverted. Some say he was kidnapped at the direction and pressure from the United States government. This international event was lamely justified by saying that
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Campaign Diary Volume 2: Mapping St. Albert priorities while my web page dries out
A work in progress … a screenshot from my campaign website, as it emerges… ST. ALBERT, Alberta One of the small ripples and eddies from the disastrous floods that inundated Calgary on June 21 lapped up alongside my city council campaign in St. Albert. That is to say, the web
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6208…Cooking Kids In Canada
Rick Kaulbars, personal and Facebook friend of mine, posts the following thoughts on FB. In North America, 33 toddlers a year die in overheated parked cars. WIthin 20mins. the car temp. can shoot to 40 or even 50 deg. Now, a second child, an Edmonton girl, has died making it
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: The $55 Billion Private Power Racket and Real Story Behind Hydro’s Debt
The Liberal Government and its private power pals are taking a page out of the neoliberal handbook, which aims to privatize anything of value. Here’s how it works: 1. You saddle a valuable public utility or asset with enormous debt through private sector contracts it doesn’t need (of course, the
Continue readingChristy's Houseful of Chaos politics » Christy's Houseful of Chaos: For a Diversity of Tactics
I went last night to a presentation by two women from Deep Green Resistance. It was an interesting presentation focusing on the question of how we make change in our world. The two presenters critiqued the myth that if we just bring enough awareness out there we can create a
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: F-35 Falls Behind Schedule, Again
Testing can become costly and time-consuming when you’re building an aircraft before you know if it will actually work as advertised. It defeats the whole notion of schedules and target dates when you’re working in the dark. Lockheed’s overdue, over-priced and under-performing F-35 stealth light bomber is the poster child
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