It’s the Sound of Cracking Ice
Growing up in Ontario back when it used to have winters, young boys gravitated to frozen ponds, streams and lakes. We'd skate or play hockey or sometimes just marvel at…
October 2011
Leading by example
David Atkins points out how the Tea Party (however contrived and astroturfed) may have contributed to the rise of the burgeoning Occupy Wall Street movement by legitimizing protest as a…
Amazing Photo: Dinosaur Bone Cells
Nikon Small World 2011 – Alan Taylor – In Focus – The Atlantic. Filed under: Beautiful Tagged: Nikon small worlds competition, photomicrography
Herman Cain: The 9-9-9 Kook
Herman Cain is a joke and no presidential material. Is it possible that Repugs purposely run these kooks to show Americans that blacks are not smart? Last time around it…
The Folly of Linear Thinking #nlpoli
New Brunswick’s David Campbell has an interesting post about the folly of believing that things go in straight lines. Like say, oil prices have been going up for a while…
Conservative dirty tricks at Washington protest
It didn’t take long for indignant conservatives to erupt after #OccupyWallStreet #ows protesters in Washington allegedly attacked a museum. They’re quieter today. The bizarre thing is that American Spectator assistant…
Giving Thanks
On this beautiful crisp morning it is hard not to give thanks for all of our bounty. Walking my dog along the river always reminds me how lucky I have…
Hipster music fail
So I'm watching Saturday Night Live for the first time in ages and Ben Stiller, whom I generally enjoy, is doing an admirable job as host and I'm enjoying the…
Music for a Sunday: When I close my eyes
What I give thanks for: places that aren’t gone…yet. Happy Thanksgiving.
On Tories giving back to education, their golden business cards, and other news
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On Tories giving back to education, their golden business cards, and other news
For other videos, please visit youtube.com/artemNDP
On Tories giving back to education, their golden business cards, and other news
For other videos, please visit youtube.com/artemNDP
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!
This is a photo of a Thanksgiving Service in France 93 years ago: October 13 1918. It was held in a chapel in Notre-Dame-de-Grace. Did these Canadian troops know that…
Here’s To The State Of The Golden Era….Verse 3
.Here's to the Lies of the Era's Spinners...In the midst of all the plenty....A decade of children going down...And the Seniors who need our help most...Get shuffled round and round...________In…
Surveying the Wreckage
Surveying the wreckage of the Conservative campaigns in both Manitoba and Ontario, Andrew Coyne offers this analysis:In short, conservatives in this country, at least of the partisan, capital-C variety, have…
Rantings over rankings
Times Higher Education has just published its influential rankings of World universities. I imagine that university presidents all over the world, at this time, are either pounding their chests, proudly…
Parliament In Review: September 29, 2011
As Parliament heads into a week off, let's get caught up on what happened in the last couple of weeks before its break - starting with a day that focused…
Olivia Chow On Romeo Saganash
The initial shock and awe of Brian Topp's run for leader of the New Democratic Party has quickly morphed into a father knows best campaign. Topp keeps piling up the…
New Zealand "terrorism" follies continue
A follow-up to my post on the subject last month: The Urewera 18, now down to the Urewera 4, face trial early next year on criminal conspiracy charges. Some of…
Chris Hedges From The Occupy D.C. Protest
In a very informative interview from Washington, Chris Hedges incisively and very articulately holds forth on the implication of the protests, the difference between the Occupy Movement and the Tea…