Grey Cup Day Update…The Roof No Longer Matters!
NextTimeSlotsInTheSeatBacks! UpperDeckVille Organizers of the 99th Grey Cup (no French, please) are breathing a sigh of relief with just four more hours to go before game time. Why? Because the…
November 2011
Amnesty International campaigner visits campus
Last Thursday, Amnesty International Mount Allison Hosted Craig Benjamin, Amnesty International Canada’s Human Rights Campaigner for Aboriginal Peoples. I organized the visit and the Centre for International Studies provided much…
Lessons from the ancient Greek island of Delos
I had the chance to visit the amazing archeological site that consists of the entire Greek island of Delos. Beyond the aesthetic appeal of such a large, ancient, and naturally…
PUBLIC ROUND TABLE ON INCOME INEQUALITY: IS THERE A REMEDY?
Saturday February 11th from 2 to 4 pm at the Riverbend Library (Rabbit Hill Road and Terwillegar Drive) Income inequality is a very old issue, but the problem is that…
PUBLIC ROUND TABLE ON INCOME INEQUALITY: IS THERE A REMEDY?
Saturday February 11th from 2 to 4 pm at the Riverbend Library (Rabbit Hill Road and Terwillegar Drive) Income inequality is a very old issue, but the problem is that…
PUBLIC ROUND TABLE ON INCOME INEQUALITY: IS THERE A REMEDY?
Saturday February 11th from 2 to 4 pm at the Riverbend Library (Rabbit Hill Road and Terwillegar Drive)Income inequality is a very old issue, but the problem is that it…
PUBLIC ROUND TABLE ON INCOME INEQUALITY: IS THERE A REMEDY?
Saturday February 11th from 2 to 4 pm at the Riverbend Library (Rabbit Hill Road and Terwillegar Drive) Income inequality is a very old issue, but the problem is that…
Black Friday and other deadly things.
How stupid, gullible and greedy can people get? A man was reportedly detained for resisting arrest after a fight at the jewellery counter in the early hours at a Walmart…
A queue of Qs in London
Some folks have started a media and Twitter campaign to bring the CBC show Q, and radio host Jian Gomeshi to London to do a broadcast. I thought I would…
Shame on us: 600,000 Canadian kids live in poverty
I wonder what happened to the pledge to eliminate child poverty by the year 2000? While the goal of eliminating child poverty was likely never achievable, it isn’t unfair to…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Emily Dee takes a first look at what may be a highly important story about the Cons’ use of the notorious right-wing…
The Troubling Truth About Naomi Wolf’s DHS/OWS Hype
by matttbastard It’s total bullshit (not to mention batshit). AlterNet’s Josh Holland for teh Fisk: Wolf …offers a classic example of trying to shoe-horn reality into a theory with no…
Music for a Sunday: I still dream of Organon…
Kate Bush’s poignant classic. Based on Peter Reich’s story of his father’s arrest for building a device that, so it’s said, actually DID make rain. (And yes, that IS the…
Grey Cup Day Update…The Sky Is No Longer Falling!
RaindropsKeepFallingOffTheirHead Lotusland At least that is the latest according to the man on the ground from PavCo: …Preparation for the Grey Cup hit a snag late Saturday when crews discovered…
Is Bob Rae the Liberals next Keith Davey?
Senator Keith Davey chats with Prime Minister and Pierre Trudeau in this 1976 photo. Peter C. Newman’s latest book When the Gods Changed: The Death of Liberal Canada was supposed…
Grey Cup conundrum: woke up sick as a dog
From my seats But damned if that’s going to stop me from going to the Grey Cup this afternoon. First time I’ve been sick in years. Coughing and shivers all…
Ethical asbestos
A child’s plea to Stephen Harper obtains the expected result. Cavanagh Matmor has a message for Prime Minister Stephen Harper: The sixth-grader didn’t appreciate Harper’s “cut-and-paste reply” to her emotional…
Effexor Discontinuation Syndrome: brain whack
Remember about a year and a half ago I got depressed and started taking the anti-depressant Effexor? Well, after a little while I didn’t feel depressed anymore, but I couldn’t…
Sunday morning Harper caption contest
Keep it clean.