Renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking has stated that climate change stands alongside the use of nuclear weapons as one of the greatest threats posed to the future of…
The whole column by Paul Robinson is worth a read but I was particularly struck by this part: When Peter MacKay is, as so often, praised for being popular with…
Fellow blogger Orwell recently wrote a post entitled The capacity for critical thought – how do we build it? In it, he was challenging readers to brainstorm ways in which…
openmedia_logo.jpg July 6, 2011 – OpenMedia.ca is announcing its boycott of the CRTC's controversial hearing on over-the-top (OTT) content, which will determine whether online video services l...
Ater invading Poland .... Oops! Wrong dicatator.After putting our soldiers in the most dangerous places in Afghanistan (A Soldier First, Rick Hillier) and blasting Libya back to the stone age,…
Statistics Canada released a survey today on the reasons given by those Canadians as to why they did not vote in the May 2 federal election: ..The most common response…
The past few weeks I've been a bit pre-occupied with several tasks and pursuits, so I haven't been blogging much, although I have been busy. About a month ago, I…
I love this routine by Larry Miller; it’s great storytelling, and it reminds me of my idiot friends. We went so far as to name all of these levels, including…
I wondered why Harper took the extension of the so-called "mission" in Libya to Parliament. He didn't have to. As prime minister he alone can decide whether or not to…
Firefighters in Downers Grove Illinois have found and rescued a 20 year old man with autism whose parents reported that he might be lost in the sewer system. Apparently after…
Chicago-based punk rock band Rise Against have contributed to the It Gets Better campaign by producing a video for their latest release, "Make It Stop (September’s Children)" to address a…
I wrote surprisingly alot about Bill C-32, which banned the sale of flavoured tobacco products targeted at children. Cigarillos, basically. It turns out to be a fairly meaningless stab at…
The tax cutting orthodoxy of the Republicans comes under fire from right wing New York Times columnist David Brooks as the debt ceiling fight looms: The party is not being…
Great news! Thanks to pressure from students, the Ontario government has announced that all schools receiving public funding, including Catholic schools, must allow GLBT support groups starting this September. “The…
Noob Bloc NDP member of parliament Raymond Cote made it clear on Tuesday he disagrees with his party on a loan guarantee for the Muskrat Falls project.According to Canada.com: "It's…
According to Statistics Canada, more than half of people who didn’t vote in the last election didn’t bother because they were either a) disinterested, or b) “too busy.” And it’s…
For every truth, there is an equal and opposite truth; every truth is faced by a scurvy awful lie which from its own point of view is just a truth…
Before my premature bug-out due to severe weather this weekend, I did manage to do some imaging. Sticking with the theme related to the Ring nebula photos posted here another…
Alberta Culture Minister Lindsay Blackett at the Legislature after the February 2010 Budget Speech. Photo by Dave Cournoyer.In case you missed it, as almost everybody did, Calgary-North West MLA Lindsay…
