I’ve seldom seen a journalist whine so much about politicians who are too accessible to the public. Look no further, you can find them in the Calgary Herald. Mayor Nenshi has even replied to a tweet from me, and I don’t even live in Calgary, so obviously he must be
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Moving forward by ignoring errors
Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com: “The UC-Davis Chancellor responsible for the pepper-spraying of her students, Linda Katehi, today went on Good Morning America and explained why she should not resign or otherwise be held accountable: “we really need to start the healing process and move forward.” On a radio program in the
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: East Anglia SwiftHack Email Nontroversy Returns: What You Need To Know
The desparate attempt by climate change deniers to sully climate scientists returns today with the release of 5,000 emails stolen back in 2009 during the original "Climategate" hacking of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit email servers. Other than a great attempt at ruining another Thanksgiving holiday for American
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Bill O’Reilly on UC-Davis Pepper-Spraying: No Big Deal
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Continue readingCuriosityCat: Angela Merkel tosses Cameron a bone and presses on with Little EU amendments
David Cameron rubbed his hands in glee a few weeks ago when Angela Merkel insisted that the European Union treaty be amended as part of her agreement to save weaker countries from bankruptcy. Because amendments require 100% approval by all members, Cameron thought that he could bargain with the Iron
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law Blog 2011-11-22 14:17:00
Thanks to all 1500+ of you who tuned in with us for yesterday’s LSUC Webinar, Legal Ethics in an Age of Technology. Check out the live tweets and real-time discussions on Twitter @ #LSUCEthics. And now, here is our Tuesday edition of the day’s leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Here
Continue readingThings Are Good: Music Therapy Helps Brain Damaged Patients
Music therapy can help people who have severe brain damage regain control of their brain and heal faster. This is really nifty! But how does music find a pathway inside a damaged brain that regular speech can’t negotiate? According to Morrow, it has to do with the parts of the
Continue reading350 or bust: Canada’s Environment Minister Doesn’t Know What Ozone Is, But Approves Cuts To Ozone Monitoring
Unfortunately, this is the fellow in charge of preserving Canada’s water, air, and climate for future generations. The video below shows Environment Minister Peter Kent can’t respond to Justin Trudeau’s straightforward question about what ozone is, and the difference between ozone at high and low levels of the atmosphere. This
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Wake up and Listen to Occupiers
The amazingly resilient Occupy phenomenon is running up against the same ugly reality that so many social movements have encountered over the past 20 years: There is a world of difference between influence and power. Governments and the corporations they serve have power — that is, the power of money
Continue readingRecreating Eden: QWF Awards Tonight: Michel Freitag’s Book to Be Launched
Tonight is a big literary night. It’s the Quebec Writers’ Federation annual awards gala, and my good friends David Homel and Merrily Weisbord are up for prizes. Thank goodness they’re contestants in different categories –David for Midway in fiction, and Merrily for The Love Queen of Malabar in non-fiction–or I’d
Continue readingLeDaro: Mitt Romney: Flip Flop Champion
Flip flopping is not easy. It is hard on poor Romney and he should get an Oscar for his performance. “With Romney’s positions evolving on everything from abortion to gay rights, embryonic stem cell research to health care, the Republican presidential candidate has faced charges of political opportunism from Republicans
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: RIP Joe Kuchta
Leftdog and David Hutton have already posted about the passing of blogger and activist Joe Kuchta. But I’ll take a moment to pay my respects as well: nobody offered more thorough surveys of provincial and local issues than Joe, and his contribution to Saskatchewan’s political debate will be dearly and
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Keystone XL Update
As I predicted (note last paragraph through the link), the Nebraska Legislature/TransCanada deal won’t move Keystone XL anywhere near far enough to get it off the shallow water tables common in that part of the state. And it will still run across privately owned ranch-land; just not the same privately owned ranch-land as it
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Liberals, forgeddabout Ibbitson & Have Your Say in January
John Ibbitson is the latest to weigh in on the Liberal Roadmap to Renewal, with the advice that those who don’t like the proposed changes should shut up and vote Yes at the January convention: All well and good, but there are more than a few influential Liberals anxious to
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: We Do Have a Moral Licence to Resist the Dictates of Harper Regime
McQuaig: Occupy moves us into a new era – thestar.com Linda McQuaig says “Canada isn’t a dictatorship, and so protesters — like the group now ordered evicted from St. James Park — don’t have the same clear moral licence to ignore bylaws that their Egyptian counterparts had.” I’m not so
Continue readingWhy 338 constituencies? Why not 150? Or 100?
The Liberals have suggested an approach to achieving fairer regional representation in the House of Commons, and they should be listened to. Their solution is certainly better than that of Bill C-20 which will add yet another 30 seats to the House. The Liberals would achieve representation essentially as fair
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Medical update: I could do better if ‘good enough’ wasn’t still good enough
It’s been quite some time since I had the run of tests for HIV and diabetes, in part because of my fear of the results, so today’s news was quite satisfactory with clear room for improvement. My viral load, a test which measures the activity of HIV in my blood,
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Reena Virk: Critical Perspectives on a Canadian Murder
One Brown girl. Two killers with white privilege. Seven attackers. Twenty onlookers. This is the Reena Virk case. November 14, 1997 was a day that shocked the land now known as Canada. Panic ensued in the country after Reena Virk, a 14 year old South Asian girl, was murdered by
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: Some Liberals still don’t get it
I’ve not blogged for several months, given the distractions of moving, settling in, and certain other challenging issues, but I cannot resist responding to the following comment by John Ibbitson, who writes about the infighting occurring within the Opposition parties: And then there are the Liberal MPs who question the
Continue readingChallenging the Commonplace: Some Liberals still don’t get it
I’ve not blogged for several months, given the distractions of moving, settling in, and certain other challenging issues, but I cannot resist responding to the following comment by John Ibbitson, who writes about the infighting occurring within the Opp…
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