There has been rather different estimates of how many people are in this picture: The CBC report that the police estimated this crowd at 5000 (here); Lifesite claimed 15,000 (here), and the National Post, 20,000 (here). Crowd estimation isn’t too difficult a business. The basic procedure is to multiply the
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Ken Chapman: The Alberta Party Leadership Candidate Debate
Here is the long form video of the recent Alberta Party Leadership Debate held in Calgary. It is 2 hours long so put on a pot of coffee first. The Alberta Party Leadership Convention is in Edmonton May 27-28 and will be Live streamed. More to follow on those details. Check out
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Hero Cops Escort Cellphone Loudmouth Off Train [Justice] from Gizmodo by Seth Abramovitch People who carry on high-volume conversations on their cellphones in public places are the worst. THE. WORST. Which makes Lakeysha Beard the worst of the worst of the worst. For sixteen solid hours after she boarded an
Continue readingKen Chapman: Vote for The Grizzly Manifesto in the Readers’ Choice Awards.
The Readers’ Choice Awards is a great prize and serious upside recognition for an Alberta author. The competition this year is between five terrific titles but my preferences is for The Grizzly Manifesto. I really think Albertans are hungry for this kind of information and narrative. We can’t presume our species is
Continue readingLiberal Arts and Minds: Me, Myself and Aye
While it has been interesting to read the various post-mortems of the election and the pages and pages of advice being offered to the Liberal Party, my mind keeps drifting back to some reading I was doing pre-election. It started with some of Susan Delacourt’s writing, (and her links to
Continue readingInformed on Information: Navy Times – Detailed Description Of Bin Laden Raid – New Information
“As three of the SEALs reached the top of the steps on the third floor, they saw bin Laden standing at the end of the hall. The Americans recognized him instantly, the officials said. Bin Laden also saw them, dimly outlined in the dark house, and ducked into his room.
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Where’s the best place in Saskatoon to enjoy a post-Rapture drink?
Some conservative religious group from the US is apparently putting up billboards all over (including Saskatoon) proclaiming that the “Rapture” is going to occur on May 21st, removing all of “the saved” from the planet and leaving the rest of us to enjoy the universe fundie-free for 5 months before
Continue readingAll Politics Is Local: Marine Le Pen Fiddles as Europe Burns
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested over the weekend and accused of very serious crimes. Like all people in free countries he is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law and bluntly this isn’t a law blog. This is a politics blog and innocent or guilty M. Strauss-Kahn is dead
Continue readingAll Politics Is Local: Democracy Delayed is Democracy Denied
The executive of the Liberal Party of Canada has learned nothing from the crushing electoral defeat endured by the party on May 2nd. They haven’t learned that the leader of a political party should be chosen by the membership of the party without any interference from the executive. The executive
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Small silver-lining for Election 41.
Sure, Saskatoon-Humbolt was willing to re-elect a radical fundie whose social views are even too extreme for PM Harper to endorse, but at least it said “No Thank you, Pankiw”!
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Sunday Conservapedia*
*Because reality has a “liberal bias” Conservative Humour and Satire I really don’t think anything additional needs saying.
Continue readingPoliTeching: Facebook, Supporter of Gov’t Secrecy and Against Individual Privacy, Caught Anonymously Smearing Google
New York Time provided an insight to Facebook’s position on individual’s privacy: For years, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, has extolled the virtue of transparency, and he built Facebook accordingly. The social network requires people to use their real identity in large part because Mr. Zuckerberg says he
Continue readingLiberal Arts and Minds: It’s Friday so….Promises, Promises
Read whatever you like into this choice. (via ~ Jian Gomeshi)
Continue readingthis-on-that: Sportsnet fires host following anti-gay marriage tweet
Or it may have just been the last straw in a strained work environment. Whatever the reason though, kudos to SportsNet. After a spate of tweets in support of a hockey agent’s anti-gay marriage stand, Rogers Sportsnet decided Wednesday to fire on-air host Damian Goddard. “Mr. Goddard was a freelance
Continue readingRight of Center Ice: The Candidate
Like dipping a single toe into the lake from the dock before jumping in, Ruth-Ellen Brosseau robocalled her constituents yesterday. It was the first thing she has done to earn their trust as their MP since filling out (in whole or part) of her nomination papers. For many on Pro
Continue readingredjenny: How useful am I?
As an academic, I question my usefulness. Society will always need carpenters (or plumbers or tailors or nurses or farmers). Their benefit is pretty clear and obvious. Will it always need historians? How important is my obscure research that might only be read by a handful of other obscure historians?
Continue readingKen Chapman: Premier’s Council for Economic Strategy Report is Some Kind of Wonderful
Premier Stelmach gathered together and challenge twelve of the most thoughtful minds you can imagine to actually imagine the reality we face as Albertans to ensure our prosperity from now until 2040. Then they were challenged to get focused on major aspects of the challenges ahead. That resulted in the five themes
Continue readingNDP Ideas: NDP Ideas 2011-05-09 09:35:00
Gardening for food banks from Www.thespec.com – news local Bill Wilcox has been busy cultivating community gardens to grow produce for local food banks and soup kitchens.
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Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Original Song #27: Walking
I was walking todayAnd I passed a manA man I know named HarryWho always wishes everyone well I was walking with a womanNot just anyoneBut the only one The only one I care to know I wanted to jump ten miles Straight up in the skyI wanted to write right
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