if what you're reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you, discomfits you, tickles you, enrages you so much that you find…
I got to know and like Dave McGrane in the Saskatchewan Young New Democrats, but the following assessment misses the mark: McGrane, an assistant professor at St. Thomas More College,…
If you want to know which way the political winds are blowing, watch John McCain. He was noticeably moderate, even a tad progressive, when he first ran against George w.…
Kim Oakley and her family are not researchers studying high functioning autism and trying to convince the world that autism is beautiful. They are not ill informed mainstream "journalists" looking…
It's been going on since January - record winds, an earthquake, floods, drought, tornadoes. Call it "global weirding" Oklahoma style."Even for Oklahoma, this is crazy," said Rick Smith, a National…
“I have yet to hear any substantive argument that contradicts any of the analysis or research or even the process that we’ve used to get us where we are as…
Assorted content for your Friday reading.- Alice posts the full party spending numbers from May's election. And the story in fact looks to have been near-maximum spending by each of…
According to Salon's David Sirota, America is coming to its senses. He attributes it to a recent awareness of just two things - his country's burgeoning wealth gap and its…
Memo to Stephen Harper and others who'd like to integrate the US and Canada: it's not the welfare state that causes problems, it's the inability to manage your economy independently.Today…
In Flanders fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the…
> The Telegraph : Thousands of U.S. warplanes, ships and missiles contain fake electronic components from China, leaving them open to malfunction, according to a US Senate committee. In total,…
A year ago today I was pointing to the words of then Veterans Ombudsman Pat Stogran who described Veterans Affairs Canada as "severely broken." Based on this recent interview with…
Here's what we have for participation rates in the #Change11 MOOC this far.'Persons' are people who have registered for the course. The gap between persons and subscriptions is the number…
General Ludwig von Falkenhausen presents “The Week of Suffering” (circa April 2-9, 1917) –>slide 2 Artillery relentless I’d guess about a million shells Somehow can target our artillery, even though…
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There's only one thing wrong with this cartoon: it shows an actual sticker, rather than a magnet. These folks usually don't "support the troops" enough to glue a piece of…
In the recent Saskatchewan provincial election, the NDP took a thrashing. From the Huffington Post:The Saskatchewan NDP suffered one of the most crushing blows in the party's history Monday night.…
Columnist says a Harris-Decima survey conducted for The Canadian Press suggests 46 per cent of Canadians would like the CBC's funding to stay at the current level and 23 per…
AllThePay-OffsThatFit(not)PremierVilleSo.Why wasn't the report written by the (not)Premier's hand-picked man that was supposed to be about the Basi-Virk Double-Down not actually about the Basi-Virk Double-Down?Norman Farrell has an excellent post…
It's called the "Air-Sea Battle" concept and the US military has established a separate agency to put it into operation. Reading the Marine Corps concept summary the unmentioned name "Iran"…
