PHOTOS: Edmonton Public School Board Chair Michael Janz, at the podium and on the job. Below: Canadian Taxpayers Federation Communications Vice-President Scott Henning, Parents for Choice in Education Director Donna Trimble, and the Edmonton Christian High School, which is run under the auspices of the EPSB. Conservative politicians, their vocal
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Dead Wild Roses: Story Time: Affirming the Status-quo and the Utility of Identity Politics
A conversation gleaned from Stardate Whenever – “I was chatting with one of my managers and he told me he does drag performance and identifies as genderqueer. Which, you know, obviously I disagree with that terminology. He had just been reprimanded at work for wearing makeup. In the same
Continue readingcartoon life: Shaving time
I probably would have stayed with the same brand. But it’s too difficult to match things up. I have two big brand name handles bought in the last year, because I previously bought blade cartridges that didn’t fit the previous handle I was using. Can’t find that handle. Whenever my daughter comes home from college, […]
Maple-Flavoured Politics: Anti-Abortion Group Against Trudeau
So, this happened. Campaign Life Coalition Youth (CLCY) and the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (CCBR), two anti-abortion groups, announced that they are launching a nationwide campaign against Justin Trudeau because of his staunch pro-choice stance. Far be it from me to say anything that might dissuade them from this
Continue readingThings Are Good: You Should Replace Should With Could
Some new research hints that you should change how you think about issues and what to do. Often we think about things we should do and what we ought to do is ask what we could do. Asking yourself, for example, “What should I do with my life?” tacitly implies
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Very Specific Right Wing Meaning of Choice
Ouch. :> Filed under: Humour Tagged: Choice, Comic, Humour, Right Wing Politics
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Very Specific Right Wing Meaning of Choice
Ouch. :> Filed under: Humour Tagged: Choice, Comic, Humour, Right Wing Politics
Continue readingChristy's Houseful of Chaos » politics: mainly thoughts about freedom
After a couple more days of chaos and business, I have time again to sit and think. Hurray! I think back to Sunday, and taking my children to church. I remember how my most high strung child ended up sitting between a woman he barely knows and me, and how
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Ben Klass on wireless carriers’ high prices
As cell phone customers reel from yet another Big Telecom price hike, it seems like our wireless market is moving backwards not forwards. Telecom expert and OpenMedia community member Ben Klass asks what will it take for Canadians to get the greater choice and lower prices we deserve. Article from
Continue readingBirth Pangs: God Doesn’t Kill Just Because He Didn’t Like How Things Turned Out…Oh wait a minute…
via Proud Atheist The post God Doesn’t Kill Just Because He Didn’t Like How Things Turned Out…Oh wait a minute… appeared first on Birth Pangs.
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Foundation Skills Assessment: Another Dirty Trick
By Rachel Goodine The FSAs, or Foundation Skills Assessment tests, administered annually in British Columbia since 2000 to students in grades 4 and 7, are once again under way. They began on January 14 and will continue until February 22, 2013. In the meantime, the debate is on. For many,
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Abortion rights group launches website to celebrate historic 1988 Supreme Court “Morgentaler Decision”
by Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada | Jan 15, 2013 In honour of the upcoming 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s historic 1988 decision to overturn the nation’s criminal abortion law, the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada is delighted to dedicate a new website to the anniversary: www.morgentaler25years.ca The day of
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: Is belief in God a choice?
The following satirical video, “Gay Scientists Isolate Christian Gene”, pokes fun at the concept of a “gay gene” and religious opposition to homosexuality. The proportion of people who believe that homosexuality is chosen is decreasing. That’s not to imply that homosexuality is the phenotype expressed by a “gay gene”. Just
Continue readingthe woodshed: Shooting down another trial ballon
Kitchener MP Stephen Woodworth’s attempt to reopen the abortion debate (not exactly as pictured above) will not end well for anyone. I dislike writing about abortion for a number of reasons. No matter what I write, someone is going to be furiously calling me a baby killer or a misogynst.
Continue readingOn small parties.
Short one today, as I’m trying to work through dissertation revisions. But I thought it was worth noting how few of Ontario’s registered political parties have bothered to put together a platform as yet. It’s kind of sad, given that we have fixed elect…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: RSA – Animate – Choice
Within structural systems there is great pressure to conform, in Capitalism is not an exception.
Filed under: Politics Tagged: Capitalism, Choice, RSA Cognitive Media, Social Change
Continue readingOn the Quebec question: (2) Self-determination
Yesterday, I suggested that objections to the definition of a “clear majority” in favour of separation as 50%+1 were insincere, and really masked forms of other objections. The first I want to talk about is the claim that there is something wrong with …
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: This Election Comes Down to a Choice (Cartoon of the Day)
Inspired by this story: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/second-reading/brian-topp/this-election-comes-down-to-a-choice/article1997456/
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