“Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.”
Joe Paterno (Penn State)
Legendary coach Joe Paterno and Penn State are in the news but not for football results or academic achievements. I won’t repeat details exce…
Tag: ethics
Blast Furnace Canada Blog: Keystone XL delayed; and how many Wal-Marts does Hamilton need?
It was a big surprise but also a delight to hear that Hillary Clinton’s State Department has ordered Trans Canada Pipelines to reconsider the proposed route of the Keystone XL project, in particular the section that would have gone through Nebraska’s S…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Old news, aged quickly
Today, media conglomerates are not only influenced by Big Money interests, but they are often themselves Big Money interests.
– Cameron Gaut
I wrote earlier that the Toope Report helps the Liberal Government change the subject from that which makes it …
Things Are Good: New Way to Examine Consciousness in Comatose Patients
There are a lot of ethical issues about what to do with a person in a vegetative state in a hospital, and sometimes pulling the plug (so to speak) isn’t the best course of action. Thanks to some smart researchers we can now tell which patients are still thinking and which patients have no activity […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Willing to Bet on Your God? – Choose rationality instead.
Betting on infinity is a tough choice to justify. Pascal tried and failed… will you?
Filed under: Ethics, Religion Tagged: god, infinity, Religion, theramin trees
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: More Campbell associates break lobbying rules
In March 2008, Gordon Campbell intimate Ken Dobell plead guilty to violating British Columbia’s lobbying legislation. Dobell had retired as deputy minister to the premier in 2005 and then busied himself as a lobbyist and beneficiary of lucrative patro…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Liberals reward immorality
Without ethical foundations, leadership in government is merely random wandering among infinite possibilities. A whim of yesterday had value then but none today. No one knows what will be expedient tomorrow.
I wrote earlier a belief that Gordon Camp…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Rick Mercer: "It gets better" isn’t enough
Frankly, Rick says it way better than most of us. The crap that leads 300 students in this country to commit suicide every year because they can’t stand the bullying over their being LGBT has got to stop.(Transcript here, thanks Rick …
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: The smoking gun is visible
If the linked article had been written by almost any other journalist in the province, one might wonder if it involved exaggerated criticism of a disrespected government. But, since the author is Paul Willcocks, one BC’s most astute and ethical newsp…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: CBC v Quebecor — at least wrastling’s fake
The ongoing between Quebecor Media and the CBC has gotten really intense this week, if the Toronto Star is to be believed. I agree that the CBC has some issues with transparency and that it would be wise to answer at least some, if not nece…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Virtue in short supply
ETHICS:
A matter of daily practical concern described glowingly in universal terms by those who intend to ignore them.
– John Ralston Saul
From West Coast Environmental Law, 11 October, 2011
In a recent post we explained that Taseko’s “New Prosperi…
Accidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: October 3, 2011
Monday, October 3 saw another day dedicated largely to debate of the Cons’ anti-refugee bill. The Big IssueAs might be expected after several days of debate, the Cons’ single set of poorly-reasoned talking points was beginning to get stale. And Kevin L…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: At long last, a "churchie la femme" has been busted …
Finally, after more than a quarter of a century, a Roman Catholic bishop in North America may finally be held to account in the courts — the legal courts, not the canonical ones. The sex abuse scandal that has plagued the Catholic Church has had a rel…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Cherry in more hot water
To follow up on my last post about “Grapes”:The three NHL players that Don Cherry criticized last Thursday night — that three retired NHL players, namely Stu Grimsom, Chris Nilan and Jim Thomson were “pukes,” “turncoats,” and “hypocrites” for saying…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Ethics and Religion
Distribute freely my pretties! Spread the word.
Filed under: Ethics, Religion Tagged: ethics, Morality, Religion
Continue readingbastard.logic: Johann Hari Vs. Johann Hari On The Ethics Of Making Sh!t Up
by matttbastard Johann Hari, September 2011: “If I had asked the many experienced colleagues I have here at The Independent… they would have explained just how wrong I was. It was arrogant and stupid of me not to ask.” Indeed … Continue reading →
The Sir Robert Bond Papers: @cbcnl using Nalcor lobbyist as election commentator #nlpoli #cdnpoli
CBC Newfoundland and Labrador will be using registered Nalcor lobbyist Tim Powers as an election commentator but Powers will apparently be commenting as part of a group of journalists and a political scientist, not as an identified partisan or …
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: It’s not obstetrics, it’s obstruction
It’s taken some time to write this but I can’t wait any longer. It’s more than obvious that the Holy See simply doesn’t get it when it comes to child abuse.Not that long ago, in July of this year, an independent inquiry in Ireland led by Ju…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Happiness, Equality and Security – The True Measures of a Society; not GDP.
The ongoing media campaign to make the economy the monofocus of our societies continues on unabated. Do almost any news search and you will see economic principles overlaid and tied to the idea that somehow they are related to how healthy and how “good” a society actually is. Economic health is but one part […]
knitnut.net: Poll: Banana ethics
You know how everybody has distinct preferences when it comes to buying bananas? For example, my homeless friend Dave X likes his bananas “lightly freckled.” I prefer mine still tinged with green. Because of that, I only like to buy three bananas at a time.
Which brings me to a dilemma.
When I’m choosing bananas, […]
Continue reading