You can read this story. What world is this that playgrounds have become killing grounds? The murder of hope, love, creativity, passion, ingenuity, individually. This goes unpunished. Unnoticed. Why? When…
Alberta will be holding its fourth ever Senate election in 2012. Last Friday, the Progressive Conservatives released the rules to guide the nomination of their candidates in next year’s Senate…
After the vindication of Abousfian Abdelrazik by the UN Security Council’s “1267 Committee”—a kind of distillation, if you will. Quoted with no further comment, for your edification: shouldn’t get nothing…
We are back from our brief vacation with the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, December 5, 2011: Nominations Open for 6th Annual Canadian Law Blog…
Premier Kathy Dunderdale and Emera chief executive Chris Huskilson. Par for the course for the former to be dazed and confused. Somewhat surprising to find the latter a bit off.…
I’ll add one additional follow-up note from yesterday’s NDP leadership debate. In principle the opportunity for candidates to ask questions of one another looks to have been an ideal chance…
I posted this video last night. A young boy going into grade eight. He is scared. Lots of people call him names. This is bullying. This is wrong. I wish…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Murray Dobbin comments on how the NDP can turn economic issues from a perceived weakness to one of the party’s core strengths over…
…do a little Muzzie bashing. Why? From their website: Marc Lepine’s father Liess Gharbi was an Algerian immigrant, a Muslim Extremist who taught his boy how to hate women… Dawg’s…
Paul Krugman writes that to win the contest for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, “there are only two ways to make the cut: to be totally cynical or to be…
He’s been gone 40 years now. Had he lived, he would’ve turned 70 this year. As it is, I’ve been on this Earth a dozen years longer than he had.…
The Conservatives, because of the massive wealth of soundbites gained from the debate which will paint the new NDP leader as wanting to raise taxes, put through a carbon tax,…
On Saturday, we published an article speculating that Marc Lemire, or at least his wife, isn’t pleased with Paul Fromm using Lemire’s Sec. 13 fight to fundraise off of, since…
Amid the deluge of fundraising appeals that arrive via email and paper mail this time of year, the letter from the Canadian Peace Alliance stood out for me. Under the…
Never Judge a Book by its Cover And: Everything You Ever Needed To Know About Cairo
Plenty of others have already commented on the NDP’s first leadership debate. But I haven’t yet seen any that line up with my take on yesterday’s chance for candidates to…
It seems like all the lights are up in the neighborhood, so I thought I’d post this hilarious Christmas routine by Patton Oswalt: Click here to view the embedded video.…
Our eyes on the ground of the Durban climate conference, Ani, updates us from Day 6 of COP17. To read more, visit Ani’s blog at YouthDelegateManitoba.wordpress.com: I could spend my…
To Russia, Just a quick note to let you know that it has become clear to me that I am needed there, especially in light of an ongoing crackdown on…
