Before I continue, full disclosure: like many Quebecers, I am anti-monarchy and think it’s antiquated and a waste of tax dollars. Furthermore, like Gilles Duceppe said awhile ago, they never work and they live off the backs of the tax-payers. I have to ask, particular today’s neo-cons, who love to villify the poor, . . . → Read More: Royal Pains, Brainwashing of Canada, Big Shiny Distractions Supercede Democracy–Rant Alert
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Dead Wild Roses: 300 – This is…disturbing.
I have long filed the 300 under the category of movies that I like. I enjoyed the theme of the many versus the few and of course the super slow motion battle sequences that make killing look like its superawesome cool. http://youtu.be/VW4d3Kukcu8 Superawesomeness aside though I did not think too much of the rest of […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Loving God, Loving Psychopath
When you break down what it would actually mean to be a deity, or to have absolute power and control over another one can start to appreciate the ghastly way in which events and decisions can go wrong. Unchecked power can only lead to psychopathy, and that is precisely the power so many of the […]
Dead Wild Roses: Subnormality – Goats
A happy wish of green goatishness to you.
Filed under: Education, Humour Tagged: So Mature!, Subnormality
Continue readingHow Bill C-6 Can Set a Dangerous Precedent For All Working Canadians, Including Non-Unionized Workers
Assuming Stevie Spiteful stays in power, that is, and after watching both the NDP and the Liberals, this week-end, along with Stevie Spiteful’s spin machine in his media, it looks like it could well be for a very, very long time to come. Only a very sleep deprived Lizzy May seemed to have . . . → Read More: How Bill C-6 Can Set a Dangerous Precedent For All Working Canadians, Including Non-Unionized Workers
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Use University Research to Increase Manufacturing Jobs
Manufacturing jobs have been declinining as a percentage of total jobs in most OECD countries for several decades, with Ontario being especially hard-hit as a jurisdiction. At the end of the Second World War, manufacturing jobs accounted for 26% of all Canadian jobs; by 2007, this figure had dropped to just 12%. And as I’ve […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Good without god
We can be good without consulting the godhead of your choice. Qualia Soup makes an engaging look at morality and religion.
Filed under: Education, Religion, Science Tagged: Morallity, Qualia Soup, Religion, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quote of the Day – The Spirit Level – Equality
Just picking up the Spirit Level again, and finding great stuff to share. As a way of creating a more egalitarian society, employee ownership and control have many advantages. First, it enables a process of social emancipation as people become members of a team. Second, it puts the scale of earning differentials ultimately under […]
Politics, Re-Spun: On Riots & Anarchists: the Media’s Reactionary Propaganda
Good afternoon Vancouver, how’s your head? The hand-wringing and spinning has commenced in full force now in the wake of the riot which gripped the downtown core after the Canucks Game 7 loss. The narrative which emerged, both in the media and thanks to public statements by the Vancouver Police, is that—are you ready for […]
Continue readingTrashy's World: Play-based learning
Good article in the Glob and Spew this morning described play-based learning and its benefits for young children.
Essentially, this is a progressive approach to learning that posits that children will learn life tools and skills more happily and readily if presented to them as a part of their “play”, and they will be retained longer […]
Exponential Book: Free agent professor
If you’re a college or university teacher, whom do you work for ?” Thus begins Stanley Fish‘s latest New York Times editorial on the subject of academia. Here are a few excerpts: “Academics […] want […] to work in an organizatio…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Edmonton christian LOGOS program – Yes Timmy, Homosexuals should burn in Hell.
Teaching religion in public schools as a serious “subject” is just wrong. Religious studies are acceptable, but this is not what this is. Would you want to subject your child to graded learning on how the tooth fairy or easter bunny makes their rounds? Some people do, and want to continue to do so on […]
Trashy's World: Somewherrrrre, over the …
This is getting insane!
The Dufferin-Peel Catholic School Board has effectively banned the use of rainbows at school functions because, get this, of the association of rainbows with gays!
I read this for a while thinking it was satire! Why would or could something this silly happen in the 21st century!
I am not making this up!
Leanne Iskander, […]
Dead Wild Roses: Just in case you missed it – No Rapture for Anyone!
Darkmatter 2525 is quickly becoming one of my favourite youtube video producers.
Filed under: Education, Religion Tagged: Reality Check, Religion fail, The Rapture?, Welcome to Atheism
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: Leaked Ad: Minimum Wage
This is the second ad in a set of three. The first ad was on education and this one is on the minimum wage (which is pertinent because of it being in the news recently). Again, as I’ve written before on the set of ads, it’s a set that is no…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Fix PSE System Before Building Addition!
According to an article in yesterday’s Toronto Star, the Ontario government will create room for 60,000 new students in its colleges and universities by 2015-2016, 10% of which will be for graduate students. (I assume this means that, by 2015-2016, there will be 60,000 more students enroled in Ontario’s post-secondary insitutions than is currently the case, and that […]
Continue readingTrashy's World: A favourite sport of some social conservatives…
… is to bash and slash pretty much any opinion, line of work, profession, whatever, that does not line up with their narrow philosophies.
The teaching profession is often the target of these self-styled critics. I follow a guy on Twitter who goes on and on about the inadequacies of our public school system and how […]
UBC economist Milligan throws cake at educated, unemployed youth
I tuned into a rebroadcast of this morning’s the CBC’s the Current while cleaning the kitchen this evening which had an unusually good documentary on the problem of youth unemployment; specifically, the problem of university undergrads in f…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: The Town Without Poverty
A guest post from Richard Pereira, a recent winner of the PEF Essay Contest… – Canadian Economics Association – The Town Without Poverty There were hundreds of speakers at this year’s CEA conference in Ottawa. About a dozen of these were designated “Special Lectures/Conférences spéciales” and among them were Jack Mintz on “The GST After […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Evils of Socialism?
Strip away all the muddle, all the hoopla, all the baggage and then you can begin to understand what Socialism is actually about. Noam Chomsky explains how the term has been, in essence, denatured and is quite meaningless except as a dog-whistle for the normative defenders of the the capitalist status-quo. Filed under: Education Tagged: […]