The purpose of this particular post is to address the rhetoric surrounding equalization payments… and believe you me, there is a lot that gets lost in the rhetoric. Therefore, this post contains links to various federal programs regarding Transfer Payments, as well as to the section of the Canadian Charter
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Words and Violence #nlpoli
Canadian writer J.J. McCullough used a column in the Washington Post last week to ask a very useful question: why it is that the progressive society in Quebec produces “so many massacres”? Regular readers will recognise this question from SRBP last week. McCullough also noted that Canadian conventional media are
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Words and Violence #nlpoli
Canadian writer J.J. McCullough used a column in the Washington Post last week to ask a very useful question: why it is that the progressive society in Quebec produces “so many massacres”? Regular readers will recognise this question from SRBP last week. McCullough also noted that Canadian conventional media are
Continue readingMelissa Fong: “Oppressed Majority”: What’s missing?
At the risk of getting a whole lot of Feminist hateration on this- I’m just going to say this: People who are loving this video are people who already get it [1]. It won’t make a dent on a dude that doesn’t honestly understand or recognize his own male privilege.
Continue readingEclectic Lip: Obama regains “Eye of the Tiger” in 2nd Presidential Debate
I missed the first Presidential Debate last week, but gathered from the chatter that Mitt Romney stole a round from a woefully-underprepared President Obama. The commentary gave the sense that Obama prepared for the event in the way Apollo Creed prepared for the fight in the first Rocky movie. As
Continue readingEclectic Lip: Commemorating Joe Romm’s “Language Intelligence”
Joe Romm‘s book Language Intelligence is now out in the US (but maddeningly, remains unavailable in Canada). Early reviews proclaim it as both a rhetorical masterpiece, and a masterpiece on rhetoric. To commemorate the book in my small way, I dug up a piece I wrote for a competition on Dr. Romm’s
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