The lengths people go to in order to stop gay people from enjoying their life… Thomas Amons, a principal for the Beaumont Independent School District’s Taylor Career and Technology Center in Texas, has canceled an entire cosmetology course rather than let a student whom he thought was gay take it.
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Left Over: RIP Premier Lougheed….and Education in Alberta
Is it just me, or is Alberta getting more and more insane all the time? Must be all those bitumen fumes..where else would a teacher be fired for doing his job? Alberta is guilty of a whole bunch of disgusting things in regards to the environment and ignoring the health
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: #NBCFail: A post-mortem
During the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games, viewers in the United States quickly became frustrated with the company given exclusive U.S. broadcasting rights to the games and used the hashtag #NBCFail to express their frustration on Twitter. They were frustrated with their “shoddy streaming experiences, editorial mistakes and —
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Harper hates war resisters. We love them. Stop the deportation of Kimberly Rivera
by Peace Alliance Winnipeg During the Vietnam war, tens of thousands of American conscientious objectors sought refuge in Canada to avoid taking part in a war they could not, in conscience, support. While the Canadian government was slow to respond in a positive way, under persistent pressure from peace, church
Continue readingCritical Brain Candy: Banking sick days and public sector unions
I’ve written previously about the idea of banking sick days, and getting a payout for them later. Now the Ontario government has passed Bill 115, which “freezes their wages, bans strikes for two years and ends their ability to bank sick days” for teachers. I don’t agree at all with
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Ontario Shores says we got it all wrong
Earlier this week we ran a story about how a manager at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences had used a YouTube clip from the 2000 movie “Meet The Parents” to intimidate staff. In the YouTube clip, Robert DeNiro corners … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Religious Right Declares War on Condoms and Wizards in Ontario
If we’re going to have religious fundamentalists trying to rabble-rouse left, right, and centre, in this country, the conservative media is going to have to figure out how to cover them responsibly. Believe me, I wish it wasn’t the case, but it is. We live at a time when the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: No Go Argo
When I saw the trailer for Argo, I had a flashback to the Tommy Douglas Story. It was obvious from the focus of the plot that the CIA was going to get credit for saving the American hostages in Iran, 1979, instead of Ken Taylor, the Canadian diplomat. That’s the
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Will new health care technology bring a utopia or dystopia?
It’s easy to get carried away with the continual promise of better health care through technology. From the IBM Watson super computer to vending machines that dispense pharmaceuticals, we are likely on the cusp of a new wave of technology … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Immigration
Working on campus: allowed. Work a shitty job at Walmart for two weeks, and declare the income: deportation. It’s the reality that international students face in Canada. Those students placing their hopes in the hands of Jason Kenney, are going to need that church for a while. Here’s a timely
Continue readingCritical Brain Candy: Global warming in 30s
This video has been floating around: VIDEO: The Warming World in Less Than 30 Seconds. Alright, here’s what I don’t get: let’s say someone hasn’t believed all the evidence so far that human activity is having a major effect on climate. They claim “it’s natural climate variation.” Ok, we all
Continue readingIn This Corner: Tuesday with the Sunday New York Times, all three pounds of it.
Did you know that you can get the Sunday New York Times delivered to your door for about $26 a month? Neither did I, until my dad pointed out an ad in the Globe and Mail with the offer. Anyway, dad suggested we give it a try for a while,
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Tory health care white paper elicits a big ho-hum
If the Tories thought that yesterday’s new health care white paper was likely to change the channel on the byelection defeats, they likely woke up this morning disappointed. Despite health care’s long standing ranking as the number one issue among … Continue reading →
Continue readingLeft Over: Get Chicken Little on the Phone!!!!!
Did intelligence fears prompt Canada to cut Iran ties?By Brian Stewart, CBC News Shades of the 1950′s, McCarthyism and the Red Scare! One would think that we were in the middle of the so-called Cold War, and that the Commies were hiding under the beds, once again…. Really, Harpo?
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Ontario Shores manager shows DeNiro-Stiller movie clip to intimidate staff
WHITBY – Dietary staff failed to get the joke when their Ontario Shores manager showed them a clip from the 2000 film “Meet The Parents” during a staff meeting earlier this year. In the YouTube clip, Robert DeNiro corners his … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Regina’s Unlikely Sights
An unexpected appearance by Beaker in the 3rd floor RIC window A wasp drinking some pop Red Sun at One in the Afternoon: I couldn’t figure out what the unnatural light in the stairway was until I got outside and looked up. It was natural, and filtered by atmospheric dust
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Oh Yeah?
-My tongue is longer than yours. -Oh yeah? Well, my tail is longer than yours. -Don’t look at me, I’m staying out of this.
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: New Tory health plan is simple – too simple
The new Ontario Tory plan for health care is simple – eliminate the Local Health Integration Networks and the Community Care Access Centres and let between 30-40 “hub” hospitals run the health care system – or at least the bits … Continue reading →
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Christian Group Sues School Board Over Lesson Plans
A group calling itself the “Parental Rights in Education Defense Fund” along with an anonymous “beleaguered parent” is suing the Ontario school system for not providing advance notice of gay subject matter. “The parent seeks nothing more than to be given advance notice so that he can […] withdraw his
Continue readingEclectic Lip: Blogging will be light until Equinox…
Blogging has been light non-existent for the past couple weeks, as I’ve been preoccupied with a fifteen-part chronicle of my life in fuel cells. A vacation now beckons, meaning that blogging should resume around the autumnal equinox. Back soon!
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