One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen might change the world, as Malala Yousefzai says. The pen and book are of no use, though, if the student and the teacher are not interested in finding things out. The horror of the Taliban is the same horror one finds
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Cabinet shuffle question
I’m at the cabin with Son Two and Son Three – so I was unable to check if Michelle Rempel was again asked what hair products she uses by that jerk Glen McGregor. Anyone hear if he did or not? He has a history, you might say.
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Losing the world, and some sleep, but enjoying it
Brave New World – not the novel of a dystopian future by Aldous Huxley – is the name of the latest add-on for Civilization V, following after Gods & Kings, released in 2012. BNW was released last Tuesday, and I was at the local EB Games store to get
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Paranoia, Inc.
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Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Taking Aim At His Enemies
Stephen Harper shuffled his deck chairs yesterday. And Mike De Souza reports, in The National Post, that incoming ministers received a package which included a list of Harper’s enemies: Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office asked Conservative political staffers to develop lists of “enemy” lobby groups, as well as troublesome bureaucrats
Continue readingZorg Report: A Match Made in Heaven – Loblaws and Shoppers Drug Mart Unite!!
A Match Made in Heaven – Loblaws and Shoppers Drug Mart Unite!! Shoppers kills millions of trees a week on advertising, trying to lure people to stores to buy merchandise—on sale—that Shoppers doesn’t have and, almost incontrovertibly, never did intend to have. Numerous times I got Shoppers flyers that
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: So Why Don’t Pro-”Lifers” hate God?
A big thank you to Tigger_the_Wing, Back home =^ from the comments section of a blog post on Pharyngula. Tigger talks about the inconsistency in many of the arguments religious anti-choicers make. Back to regret: When we lose someone, the loss hurts; among other reasons because we remember all the
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Trading staterooms on HMCS Harper.
Prime Minister Harper’s cabinet shuffle is not just new lifeboat assignments. The changes on Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship Harper are to decide who is to go first class on their voyage to defeat. And if you think there is anything significant about this new cabinet, even the Prime Minister would
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: The Legend of Pokadot Joe
In the years before the Great Waffle, the common people had a champion. Whenever injustice reared its linear head, Pokadot Joe was there to thump it with his curly-cue cudgel of curvy vengeance. Mounted on his mighty steed, Dosage Twelve, … Continue reading →
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Dishonesty gives cause for termination in financial industry
Agostino v. Gary Bean Securities Ltd., 2013 ONSC 6918 holds: [85] I recognize that dishonesty does not automatically mean that an employer has cause for dismissal. Writing on behalf of a unanimous court in McKinley v. BC Tel, 2001 SCC 38 (CanLII), [2001] 2 S.C.R. 161, Iacobucci J. said at para.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Smoking
I took the kids to the beach on Sunday, and there’s new signage everywhere about the problems with using the sand as an ashtray. In hopes for a “butt-free beach,” they included information on wildlife concerns, toxins, costs to taxpayers, and the level of pollution: cigarette butts are the most
Continue reading350 or bust: Roz Savage: Stop Drifting, Start Rowing
Roz Savage has an amazing story to tell, about how she left the life that was expected of her, to become an ocean adventurer. Is she crazy? You decide: * Roz Savage, Ocean Rower
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Learn Now. Pay Later. #nlpoli
A college or university education has an undeniable value both to the student and to the society as a whole. But should either party bear a disproportionate share of the cost of the education? Of course not. The challenge for policy makers in the provincial government and at the university
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Sound Advice for Autism Speaks
In yesterday’s commentary Autism Speaks Joins Drake And J.Cole In Insulting 40% With Autism AND Intellectual Disability I criticized Autism Speaks for stigmatizing persons with Intellectual Disability, particularly the 40% of persons on the autism spectrum with ID, the 40% that Autism Speaks seldom acknowledges in its promotions and literature.
Continue readingbgrice blog: Yukon PEDAM
I had a great time delivering the Principles of EDA Management course in Whitehorse!
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I had a great time delivering the Principles of EDA Management course in Whitehorse!
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Enemies lists and members bills
The Harper Cons are warning new and shuffled Cabinet ministers about who their friends and enemies are: On the “Transition Binder Check List” are 10 items, such as: “What to expect soon” and “Who to appoint,” as well as “Who to engage or avoid: friend and enemy stakeholders” and “What to avoid:
Continue readingMusings on Canadian Politics: My postgrad journey
After almost seven months I’m coming to the end of the classroom portion of my corporate communications and public relations program. I’ve learned many things over the course of seven months. At times the amount of information I’ve tried to absorb seemed overwhelming, but I think I’ll be able to
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