Remembrance Day takes me back to my teaching days. I could never ignore such an occasion, with everyone walking around wearing poppies, and soldiers in uniform on the streets, on tv, and in newspapers. As a grade one teacher, it was an opportunity an…
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: Who or what are we honouring today?
Remembrance Day takes me back to my teaching days. I could never ignore such an occasion, with everyone walking around wearing poppies, and soldiers in uniform on the streets, on tv, and in newspapers. As a grade one teacher, it was an opportunity and a duty to introduce an important
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: Who or what are we honouring today?
Remembrance Day takes me back to my teaching days. I could never ignore such an occasion, with everyone walking around wearing poppies, and soldiers in uniform on the streets, on tv, and in newspapers. As a grade one teacher, it was an opportunity and a duty to introduce an important
Continue readingSeeing Red in the Southwest: Been called worse things…
Sarah Palin, in her softball interview with Fox’s Greta VanSusteren, calls bloggers ‘kids in pajamas sitting in the basement of their parents’ home”. As Pierre Eliot Trudeau once said, “I’ve been called worse things by better people.” I’m sitting comfortably in my own home with my laptop, reading the news
Continue readingSeeing Red in the Southwest: Been called worse things…
Sarah Palin, in her softball interview with Fox’s Greta VanSusteren, calls bloggers ‘kids in pajamas sitting in the basement of their parents’ home”. As Pierre Eliot Trudeau once said, “I’ve been called worse things by better people.” I’m sitting comfortably in my own home with my laptop, reading the news
Continue readingSeeing Red in the Southwest: Been called worse things…
Sarah Palin, in her softball interview with Fox’s Greta VanSusteren, calls bloggers ‘kids in pajamas sitting in the basement of their parents’ home". As Pierre Eliot Trudeau once said, "I’ve been called worse things by better people." I’m sitting comfortably in my own home with my laptop, reading the news online and processing how I think and feel about a particular item then finding facts to
Continue readingSeeing Red in the Southwest: Imperfect Remembrance
The bugler’s Last Post signals our silence while Reveille awakens us to our responsibilities. Canadians across the land will be attending Remembrance Day services this morning. Or have done so already in church or at some cenotaph services held on Sunday.An elder veteran (86 yrs) at my church stood up to remind us of one mistake we’ve made all these years. He said "our memory is imperfect, as is
Continue readingSeeing Red in the Southwest: Imperfect Remembrance
The bugler’s Last Post signals our silence while Reveille awakens us to our responsibilities. Canadians across the land will be attending Remembrance Day services this morning. Or have done so already in church or at some cenotaph services held on Sunday.An elder veteran (86 yrs) at my church stood up
Continue readingSeeing Red in the Southwest: Imperfect Remembrance
The bugler’s Last Post signals our silence while Reveille awakens us to our responsibilities. Canadians across the land will be attending Remembrance Day services this morning. Or have done so already in church or at some cenotaph services held on Sunday.An elder veteran (86 yrs) at my church stood up
Continue readingBarack Obama, Invading Iraq, and Judgement to Lead
"There is a choice that has emerged in this campaign, one that the American people need to understand. They should ask themselves: who got the single most important foreign policy decision since the end of the Cold War right, and who got it wrong. This is not just a matter of debating the past. It’s about who has the best judgment to make the critical decisions of the future." – Barack Obama, October 7, 2007 Barack Obama has argued many times over the course of the last two years that his opposing the Iraq War from the start showed his superior judgement, particularly on foreign policy, compared to Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and John McCain. As he outlines in the statement above, he considered support for the Iraq War to be disqualifying. Currently Obama is considering extending Roberts Gates at the Defense department, and is considering one of John Kerry,…
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: Life gets in the way…
There’s so much to blog about, with the US election days away and the Republican clown-car/horror-show drama in the news daily. It’s been difficult to decide what to blog about: Republicans purging Democrats from the voter lists, Republicans claiming the misspelling of “Obama” on ballots as “Osama” was a typo,
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: Life gets in the way…
There’s so much to blog about, with the US election days away and the Republican clown-car/horror-show drama in the news daily. It’s been difficult to decide what to blog about: Republicans purging Democrats from the voter lists, Republicans claiming the misspelling of “Obama” on ballots as “Osama” was a typo,
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: Life gets in the way…
There’s so much to blog about, with the US election days away and the Republican clown-car/horror-show drama in the news daily. It’s been difficult to decide what to blog about: Republicans purging Democrats from the voter lists, Republicans claiming the misspelling of "Obama" on ballots as "Osama" was a typo, Republican racists using the word "nigger" at McCain rallies…But I’ve been short
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: Palin Campaign’s Quote of the Day
If you’re running for the vice-presidency of the US, but are too stupid to understand (or bother finding out) what the job entails, you’d better at least look good in front of the cameras. Sarah Palin understands this – if nothing else. So lest the c…
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: Palin Campaign’s Quote of the Day
If you’re running for the vice-presidency of the US, but are too stupid to understand (or bother finding out) what the job entails, you’d better at least look good in front of the cameras. Sarah Palin understands this – if nothing else. So lest the common American think they can
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: Palin Campaign’s Quote of the Day
If you’re running for the vice-presidency of the US, but are too stupid to understand (or bother finding out) what the job entails, you’d better at least look good in front of the cameras. Sarah Palin understands this – if nothing else. So lest the common American think they can
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: My Argument with CTV
Before the 2008 federal election fades into memory, I need to document an issue that cannot be forgotten. It is the scandal over CTV’s coverage of the Stephane Dion interview, and more importantly – how CTV used the footage to attack Dion and the liberal campaign.For the record:Steve Murphy, CTV’s
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: Troops out of Afghanistan!
Q. Faced with the depressing prospect of another term with Harper – what to do?A. Get out on the streets and demonstrate.Four days after our election, demonstrations were held across the country to demand that Harper honour the wishes of the majority…
Continue readingCanada Votes 2008: Pollster Winners, and the next Liberal Leader
Well, it appears that Angus Reid is this year’s pollster winner, coming within a percentage point of the actual popular vote totals!
Though, as for seat projection, most sites (including the Election Prediction Project and the UBC Election Stock Mark…
Continue readingUpdated Election Prediction
My original crazy prediction of a Liberal resurgence and Bloc collapse will be totally wrong in all likelihood. I therefore give you my new (less) crazy prediction: Conservatives: 148 Liberals: 83 NDP: 32 Bloc: 43 Green: 0 Independents: 2 Turnout: 68% …
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