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The Maple Monarchists - Blog: Alberta’s Freedom Conservatives and the Canadian Monarchy
As regular readers of this blog already know I often survey political parties and their candidates to discovery their views on our monarchy. The focus has often been on the federal level but on occasion I have also surveyed provincial politicians as well. Over the last month I have surveyed the Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday PSA: Abortion
Inspired by a recent conversation with a antediluvian blogger.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Honesty and Self Evaluation – In A Nutshell
Critical analysis is never truly finished. I’m glad the Kurzgesagt channel has (re)dedicated themselves becoming a reliable source of factual, interesting, and entertaining information.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Catastrophic Climate Change Just Isn’t Profitable
Paul Street writing for Counterpunch illustrates the problems humanity faces as a whole and how completely useless our insular elites and mainstream media would rather madly fiddle for short term profit that tackle the larger issues of the human habitability of the earth. “The 2020 elections and their aftermath (including
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Canada has had a Female Head of State for One Hundred and One Years of its One Hundred and Fifty-two Year History
I am told that today is International Women’s Day. So it isfitting I post a photo of an international woman. Oh, and so far We’ve had a female prime minister for a grandtotal of five months of that time. Loyally Yours,A Kisaragi Colour
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Katrina vanden Heuvel discusses the importance of pushing toward universal child care in order to relieve avoidable stress on families. – Allison Jones reports that the Ford PCs are only making matters worse by ordering school boards not to hire to fill developing
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: That Time Economists Apologized to the Queen for the 2008 Financial Crisis
In November of 2008 Her Majesty wasvisiting the London School of Economics.The financial crisis was well underway andthe Queen took the opportunity to posea question about the scale of the disasterthat everyone had been thinking; “If thesethings were so large, how come everyonemissed them?” It was a fair question thatdeserved
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
It is Valentines Day and as such I thought I’d write about aromantic gesture from a very long time ago. The HangingGardens of Babylon was one of the Wonders of the AncientWorld. Considered semi-legendary by modern scholars itscreation is said to have come about due to the great love theking
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Iglika Ivanova discusses how British Columbia can move toward eliminating poverty in its next budget. – Patrick Maze points out the need for Saskatchewan’s education system to be able to rely on stable and sufficient funding. But Alex MacPherson notes that Scott
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Where Hereditary Chiefs Still Rule In Canada
While most hereditary chiefs among Canada’s FirstNations don’t have a formal role in governance there are atleast two places where they do. They are the Buffalo PointFirst Nation and the Ojibway Nation of Saugeen Reserve.Below is an overview of their history, people, and currentchallenges. Buffalo Point First Nation Chief John Thunder
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: When Did You Start Thinking Critically?
The answer for many people, including myself would be: Not Soon Enough! The usual regrets aside, my descent into critical thinking, strangely enough, started after University as it was only then that I had enough time to really start powering through the books that I had been accumulating while working
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Is Organic Food Really Better?
Seasonal is the true organic.
Continue readingScripturient: WTF is wrong with people these days?
Into everyone’s life comes the realization that we are not young and in between the time when we were, the world has changed. Not always for the better, either. In fact, it’s hard not to conclude the whole world has gone to shit since the internet arrived. Aging is not
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Stub History
I’ve been getting rid of some accumulated paper. I found a receipt for a full year of university tuition in 1978-79: $740. I also found a paystub for my minimum wage job in the summer of 1979. At $3 an hour it took under 7 weeks to earn my tuition.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: 2019 PEF Student Essay Contest is Open
The 2019 PEF Student Essay Contest is now open! Calling all Canadian students anywhere in the world and all post-secondary students in Canada who are working on papers taking a critical approach to the functioning, efficiency, social, and environmental consequences of unconstrained markets. The winning essays will receive a cash
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: The Declaration of Dependence
Photo Credit: Journal of the American Revolution Faded cursive writing on a wrinkled, water-damaged sheet ofpaper is all that remains of an important counter-point to theDeclaration of Independence. The document is known as theLoyalist Declaration of Dependence and it was pennedin 1776 in New York. A transcript of the text is as
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Dialectical Materialism – Not So Spooky After All.
Information and education break folks. Let’s take a peek at what Dialectical Materialism actually is and help shoo away some of the bogymen people like to propagate when discussion Marxist thought. “This article outlines Marx’s method, dialectical materialism, a theory and manner of understanding change. It is a theory
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Donner Canadian Foundation, prominent funder of right-wing groups, helps bankroll new ‘think tank’ closely connected to CTF
A new “think tank” with close connections to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation received $50,000 last year from the Donner Canadian Foundation, a prominent funder of right-wing ideological organizations in Canada. SecondStreet.org describes itself on its website as “a new think tank that will be launching in early 2019.” The organization’s
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Politics in the Age of Bewilderment
The historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari says we’re living in the Age of Bewilderment, the old stories have collapsed and the new stories have not yet been written. Ms Soapbox thinks some politicians are trying to bridge this gap by pretending it doesn’t exist. They hope to turn this
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