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…
2011
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 it…
A Hollow Lament for Occupy Canada
I see that Kalle Lasn, one of the Canadian instigators of the Occupy Wall Street movement, laments the way things turned out in Canada. While protesters from Halifax to Vancouver…
Willpower and Headspace
The first quarter of Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy F. Baumeister (researcher) and John Tierney (journalist) is packed with fascinating research conducted by Baumeister and his colleagues.…
Will Germany pay more for helping save the Euro than it paid for losing the War?
The figures seem to show it would, according to Landon Thomas in The New York Times: This Lady ain’t for stampeding … Bernard Connolly, a longtime critic of European policies,…
US/NATO Attack Kills 24 Pakistani Soldiers
It’s a very scary incident, which makes America’s already strained relations with Pakistan even worse. Some Pakistanis are talking about retaliation, I hope there is none. Pakistan is a nuclear…
Net-zero mandate, not for all
Net-zero is OK for teachers, regular healthcare providers and the remaining public sector workers but not for important friends who do favours for Premier Photo Op. For example, and this…
Can You Commission a Study from the Fraser Institute?
Picking up where I left off last week, I want to explore what we know about the “objective” process by which an “independent” think tank like the Fraser Institute goes…
Nothing Is Foreign To The Universe
There are creatures that live on a planet that originated thousand of light years away but you and I do not call them alien. There are strange beings that survive…
Ultimate, Unchecked, Unfounded Autism Assumptions: Autism Isn’t Really Increasing, It’s All Genetic
“…. is one of the 1 percent of children in the U.S. born with autism, a complex developmental disability that affects a person’s ability to communicate and interact with others…
Mostly competent government
I’m a few days late getting to this story but I still wanted to commemorate it. So to speak. In August of 2008 the Department of Agriculture announced a program…
How economic inequality harms societies
I am still working through how I feel about the whole occupy movement, and I’ll probably never come to a simple opinion on whether or not I support it. Some…
Priorities. They Can Has.
by matttbastard Noted w/o comment: Time Magazine covers – December 5, 2011 h/t
The Power of the Documentary
Although traditionally avoided as a rather staid and boring genre, the documentary has enjoyed a real resurgence in popularity over the past couple of decades, no doubt in part do…
Ottawa: Big Charity loses its (united) way
Planned Parenthood. City for All Women. STORM, which reaches out to sex trade workers. Minwaashin Lodge. The Elizabeth Fry immigrant women program. Mothercraft. The Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre. The OCISO…
EU should stress test the Rating Agencies, not just the Banks
Finally, someone is paying attention to one of the main problems of the 2008 financial meltdown: the rating agencies. Asleep at the switch, these agencies were caught napping when a…
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…
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…