Ms Soapbox’s first round of New Year’s resolutions for a politician (Alison Redford) were ignored, but she’s a persistent soul and will try again. This time she’s prepared five resolutions for Premier Rachel Notley. Stay the course on your climate … Continue reading →
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Dead Wild Roses: Gaslighting: Know it when you see it.
A big hearty frack you goes out to the mind games and other assorted BS that goes on society. If you see it, acknowledge it and name it for what it is. You won’t make friends, but life too short to hang around people who deviously manipulate other people. Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Definitions, […]
Politics and its Discontents: One Thing Is Clear
The older I get, the more I realize that there are no simple solutions to problems, be it world hunger, war and conflict, climate change, or something as seemingly straightforward as getting along with that difficult guy down the street. And while I ha…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Patrick Flavin studies (PDF) the direct benefits that flow from giving people secure access to health care. And Daphne Bramham writes that the damage done by child poverty can be directly observed in educational…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Robert Reich suggests that government should respond to corporations who engage in anti-social activity such as moving their earnings offshore by making sure they can’t simultaneously take advantage of…
Continue readingThings Are Good: Children Should be Taught Philosophy
Studying philosophy has greatly influenced my life and I encourage everybody to also study the field and practice. Engaging in philosophy can improve one’s sense of self while improving their ability to discern which arguments have value. Teaching critical inquiry through philosophy to children can have a very positive impact on them as human beings. […]
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: All You Need to Know About How Equality Works in Society in 2 .gifs
The notion we have a fair playing field, a balance, whatever you’d like to call it is quite patently false. We have not all just fallen out of some sort of Rawlsian simulator into a just society. Injustice and anti-egalitarian ideals are normative in society, they are the water we swim in, the air we […]
Accidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Karen Brettel and David Rohde discuss how the cult of shareholder value is destroying the concept of corporations actually making anything useful. And Deirdre Hipwell writes that the financial-sector workers …
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: #Cover the Athlete – Sexism in Sports Media
Yet I still hear people everday proclaiming that we are ‘done’ with feminism and that ‘for all intensive purposes’ the sexes are treated equally in society. Horsefeathers to those notions, I say. Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Sexism, Sports Media, The Status Quo
Continue readingAlberta Politics: You’re in for it now, Canada! Wildrose has a plan to make you love pipelines … or else!
PHOTOS: Some of the 2,000 or so Albertans who turned up in defence of their pensions in minus-30 weather on March 2, 2014. Turns out a lot of them voted, too. Below: Pipelines! Love ’em or lose your allowance! Have you got that, Canada? Get ready, Canada! If there’s ever
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Chris Hedges weighs in on the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s entrenchment of corporate control over mere citizens, while PressProgress highlights just a few of the more obvious dangers it poses. And Blayne Haggart points out that the TPP has nothing at all to do
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: John Bowlby – A Secure Base – Five Therapeutic Tasks
To be honest, I could excerpt most of Bowlby’s book. It is that good. However, little things like time and copyright concerns limit me to providing some of the highlights of attachment theory and how big a change it was from traditional psychoanalysis. “The first is to provide the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Liz Farmer discusses the growing body of evidence showing that high-end tax cuts do nothing to build the economy for anybody but the few privileged beneficiaries. And Stephen Kimber writes about the billions of dollars Canada loses to tax evasion every year,
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Budget 2015: The Neutrino Problem
Scientists solved the problem of the Ghost Particle in less time than it’s taken the Alberta government to come up with a creative approach to economic diversification. For 40 years Tory premiers talked a good line about diversification but with the exception of Premier Lougheed, they failed to deliver. Now,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Need for Gun Control – DWR PSA
Quite an effective argument. Filed under: Education Tagged: DWR PSA, gun control
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Lauren Bialystok: Empty Schools Campaign denies children essential education
Opponents of Ontario’s sex education curriculum are broadcasting misrepresentations and bigotry “under the guise of parental rights”, argues Lauren Bialystok, an Assistant Professor of Ethics and Education at the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. The post Lauren Bialystok: Empty Schools Campaign denies children essential education appeared
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: About those shared cost programs …
In last night’s final debate, Tom Mulcair said if he’s elected, then Quebec – and only that province – would get the option to opt out of new shared cost programs, including his $15 per diem child care program.
I realize Canada has never been totally …
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: About those shared cost programs …
In last night’s final debate, Tom Mulcair said if he’s elected, then Quebec – and only that province – would get the option to opt out of new shared cost programs, including his $15 per diem child care program. I realize Canada has never been totally equal on social programs.
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: About those shared cost programs …
In last night’s final debate, Tom Mulcair said if he’s elected, then Quebec – and only that province – would get the option to opt out of new shared cost programs, including his $15 per diem child care program. I realize Canada has never been totally equal on social programs.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Refuse to Click – Your Preserving Humanity Public Service Announcement of the Day
Against human trafficking? Against slavery? Necessarily, you must also be against pornography. Filed under: Education Tagged: Human Trafficking, Pornography, Slavery
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