Oh dear! Poor Timmy never learned to be a good sport, did he? Poor young Miller, what a poor example she has for a parent! Poor loser speeches from Cons…
Gavin HewittWith the Eurozone being walloped yet again with rating agencies downrating EU bank debt, with politicians all over the map, and the UK's David Cameron trying desperately not to…
Okkupy teh Wall Streetz! And why is this happening? Well, That’s why. You can’t haz cheezburger when all da cookiez is in da banksterz.
In a shameless but hardly surprising display of partisan hypocrisy, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) referred to the Occupy Wall Street protests as “growing mobs.”Why is this hypocritical? Well…
Scottish guitarist Bert Jansch passed away on Wednesday at the age of 67. Jansch was an influential acoustic guitarist who came to prominence in the sixties playing sophisticated arrangements of…
Wittgenstein described language as a city. Three's the Old Town with its twisted streets and the new suburbs that are neatly organized. The entire city is constantly changing and growing.That's…
As the world marks ten years of war in Afghanistan, it is instructive to remember, as Michel Chossudovsky has observed, that the war started long before, in 1979, when the…
Legal Ethics in an Age of Technology... That sounds a wee bit lofty, no? Some of you are probably thinking, “Ethics? We're talking about Facebook and Twitter, here, right?” Well…
I recently came across this beautiful and moving talk by Shirin Nashat, an Iranian born artist who has lived most of her life in exile from her native country. “Art…
On Wednesday I called out former NDP MLA David Schreck for his comments regarding premier Christy Clark’s choice of attire in the Legislature. His comments reeked of sexism, and thus…
More good news out of Alberta, premier-elect Alison Redford is hinting that she may reverse the most controversial bits of Bill 44. The bill was an overdue amendment to Alberta’s…
Someone identifying with the Anonymous Internet group may have decided that Saskatoon sounded obscure and cool enough to be participating in Occupy Wall Street, that they deserved a little extra…
As I see more of them, my enjoyment of Barry A. Deutsch's cartoons increases. I recommend you visit the Ampersand blog to check out the entire selection. I enjoyed this one…
Tonight is the start of Yom Kippur.יוֹם כִּפּוּר is the holiest and most solemn day of the year. Its central themes are atonement and repentance. Jews traditionally observe this holy…
Last night we saw what we thought was previously impossible - Dalton McGuinty won a third term, just one seat short of a majority government.There are, however, consequences to last…
As you are most likely aware of, the Harper government has a fetish for secrecy. Whether it is quietly conducting trade talks while keeping the opposition in parliament and the…
A fellow student recently complained to me about the "knee-jerk lefty-liberal" worldview of one of her teachers. I don't know why she assumed the professor's worldview was reflexive rather than…
I am a left-of-centre progressive. I do not pretend to be neutral. I am a blogger. I am not a journalist.I do not take money under the table from political…
Internal audit reveals serious problems at CanNor An internal audit has found the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency, or CanNor, violated almost every financial management rule since its creation in…
I've said that I'd refrain from posting about the kerfuffle about the University's decision to demolish the former University Centre in order to replace it with a badly needed Fine…
