There I’ve said it. I’m just too damned dumb to accept atheism. And, the way I see it, so are you even if you won’t admit it… yet. It’s the whole faith thing that stops me in my tracks. What is faith but a willingness to accept as true something
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Advice to Teachers on Online Learning
Here are the answers to your questions: The EdgeX website says this on your page”This to me is a society where knowledge and learning are public goods,freely created and shared, not hoarded or withheld in order to extract wealthor influence. This is what I aspire toward, this is what I
Continue readingBuckdog: What Stephen Harper DID NOT Tell Delegates At The Davos Capitalist ‘Love In’
Canada’s PM Harper spoke to delegates at the elitist Davos conference in Switzerland today. Here are a couple of key points that he DID NOT make in his speech: -When the free-market tanked due to capitalist greed, it was the taxes of wage earning Canadian workers who bailed out the
Continue readingRivers drying up in England?
When trout waved lazy in the clear chalk streams, Glory was in me … So wrote poet John Betjeman about his beloved River Kennet. Sadly, the trout have had trouble waving lazy in the Kennet lately. The river, like many in southern England, ran dry this past winter, a victim
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Dances With Oil
If Stephen Harper were a character in a Hollywood epic movie about the western Canadian frontier, and went to live with the First Nations people, I can’t help but think his alternate name would be Dances With Oil. He sure doesn’t dance with the one he brings to the ball.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Cuba: Looking back and ahead
In 2012, the White House will focus on the most important of international and national issues: the re-election of the President. U.S.-Cuba policy will fall into “Next Year’s” box—or the year after that. The National Security staff reverts to its familiar positions on relations with that troublesome island: ignorance and
Continue readingLeDaro: Stephen Harper’s recent meeting with Natives
Harper was high on rhetoric and rituals but lacking on substance. All in all the results of the meeting were disappointing for the natives. Read more here.
Continue readingROAR!: Abortion on PEI – Liberals need a National push
Access to reproductive health services, including legal abortion, is guaranteed under the Canada Health Act – Fact. Our one lone female leader on PEI, Olive Crane, happy with a status quo, obviously not a feminist, has decided to look the other way. PEI Liberals say we have access because we can
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: No threat #nlpoli
In a meeting of the committee that manages the business affairs for the House of Assembly, the Tories approved an additional $150,000 for the Liberals. The New Democrats got nothing, even though they have a significantly larger caucus. Check this CBC report for a good synopsis. The Tories used a
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Sitting in Yummy Shawarma in Iqaluit, listening to Ice FM
The North is developing very quickly. When I first came here the idea of a shawarma place would be laughable. No longer. Making Nunavut a Territory gave it a self confidence it never had as just the eastern part of the NWT. I see Iqaluit growing to 25,000 within a
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Conflict of Interest? Not Here!
Let’s suppose that it was publicly revealed that a communications officer in the Prime Minister’s Office — Sara MacIntyre — was the wife of a senior Russian diplomat at the embassy — again, let’s suppose, Sergei Zhukov. When this is revealed, there is some public criticism. But it’s all right.
Continue readingPinheirinho II: capital vs. the people
“A toast to real estate speculation.” Carlos Latuff proves once again that a picture is worth a thousand words. Up to 9,000 people are made homeless, not by natural disaster but by the mailed fist of the marketplace. Here’s a video, courtesy of reader Rg_santos (a knowledge of Portuguese would
Continue readingThings Are Good: Victory for Chickens in Europe
Being a chicken who’s sole purpose is egg-laying can be hard because of the horrible living conditions. Too many animals, in this case chickens, are held in enclosures that don’t allow for movement. This is starting to change for chickens in Europe as they have now been granted better enclosures
Continue readingwmtc: we don’t care about facts, tarsands edition
Why you always have to ask, who is sponsoring this exhibit/ad/study/media. And why tax dollars should support the arts, humanities and sciences: because if we don’t, they will. (Emphasis added.) The Canada Science and Technology Museum faced pressure from a corporate sponsor to change its portrayal of the oilsands in
Continue readingRace to the Ballot in North Carolina
Race to the ballot is an effort to defeat amendment 1 in North Carolina this May 8. The ballot wants to make marriage between a man and a woman the only option in North Carolina. It will not only prevent same-sex marriage or marriage equality, it will eliminate protection for unmarried couples as well.
Continue readingwmtc: "we don’t care about facts", crime edition
If only the Harper GovernmentTM weren’t determined to waste our tax dollars on prison-building and useless mandatory sentencing, while telling us we can’t afford to maintain decent spending levels for universal health insurance. If only they cared about facts. New poll results show the public is abandoning a stubborn belief
Continue readingROAR!: PEI City Councillor tweets on Abortion!
Have a look – http://i.minus.com/jg2ZnqiUbZK5H.png – that’s a link to a static pic of the Tweet, captured by folks who thought maybe the Summerside City Councillor might try to deny tweeting it, might claim his account was hacked, or might just delete it. But no, apparently he was interviewed by CBC Radio reporter yesterday
Continue readingMind of Dan: The morning sun reflecting off Lake Victoria
We spend our last morning in Uganda on Lake Victoria. The early morning sunlight reflecting on the waves made the entire lake seem as if it was made of liquid gold. Related posts (randomly generated) Uganda! CN says it knew rail car had toxic substance Canadian DMCA To Be Introduced
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Time For A Brief Break
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