The $6,000 administrative penalty levied against the Canadian Taxpayers Federation for failing to register as a third-party advertiser under Alberta’s election financing law is a
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: The Difference between Weather and Climate…
At the moment it’s minus 23 Celsius, and it’s supposed to start snowing soon. Big winter storm coming, danger of frost bite according to Environment
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: 10 Year Challenge
I posted this challenge on social media recently. This is what we do to be sociable: play online games and forward memes. Discussing the world
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Keeping Tabs on Climate Change – a Three Dimensional Chore
It’s happening all around you – in front of you, behind you, on both sides, above your head, beneath your feet. It’s happening on land,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Linda McQuaig writes that Canada’s federal government should look at buying the soon-to-be-vacated GM plant in Oshawa to
Continue readingScripturient: The Ten Bulls
A series of ten Buddhist drawings make up what are known collectively as the Ten Oxherding Pictures or sometimes just as the Ten Bulls. Each
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: We Still Have Agency Around Climate Change
There’s one seed left. The Agenda talked with Michael Mann and a few others in the field about “Burnout and Despair: Studying the Climate” Mann focused
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Spring Election – when and why #nlpoli
There’s likely going to be an election before Victoria Day. If – by some miracle – the Liberals manage to win the Topsail-Paradise by-election next
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Trump can: You can’t.
Social media are a trap just waiting for the unwary politician. While I have tested some of the major social media apps, I try to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Chinese Lunar Landing – Where the Coverage Be?
Honestly! What the heck Western News Media? (The Guardian excluded) I think it would be nice to know about humanity once again visiting our moon
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Derek Fildebrandt and that rule of law thing: it’s for pipeline protesters, not law-abiding gun owners …
It shouldn’t surprise us, I suppose, that Derek Fildebrandt has publicly gone all Charlton Heston on us. I speak, of course, of the recently rebranded
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Robert Jones Embraces Fascism
During the years I’ve been working on the blog there have been a few characters that have stuck out not only for their racist, antisemitic,
Continue readingwmtc: jackie robinson: "i owe more to canadians than they’ll ever know."
Let me set the scene. The year is 1946. The United States is deeply segregated. The birth of the civil rights movement that would begin
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
Metric – The Shade
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cons and the Monstrous Keeper of the Flame
In my last post I looked at how Andrew Scheer had been caught accusing the United Nations and Justin Trudeau of trying to erase Canada's
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Whaaaat? More than Half of Food Produced in Canada is Wasted.
It seems that Canadians are doing something seriously wrong when it comes to food. More than half the food produced in Canada is wasted and
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Another Door Closes on Bitumen
A body blow to heavy oil comes into effect in 2020 when the International Maritime Organization will mandate deep cuts to sulphur emissions. That’s for
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Crisis, Crisis. No End of Crises.
I was shaken by the story last week about how 60 per cent of Canadians consider the lack of a new pipeline to the west
Continue readingHalf an Hour: New Issues for OERs
This is based on my contribution to the new Creative Commons ‘Education Platform’ discussion of issues related to open educational resources (OERs). This is the
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