3866…Sad Day
Sad day.Terry Fox' mom died of cancer.Prayers for Betty Fox who kept the dream alive.WFDS
2011
The War on Drugs Isn’t Working
The U.S tough on Crime agenda is slowly being reversed. Amid major Budget deficit the state's are seeing the true cost of putting people for minor offences in jail. California…
"Saudi women, start your engines!"
I admit I was motivated to write this post by the above heading. I couldn't resist it, so I plagiarized it. Apparently it first appeared as a Twitter message on…
Learn From History. Renewal First, Leadership Second
In 2006 leadership was a year long & renewal had almost two years to take place. It didn’t.In 2008 leadership was a few months long & renewal had more than…
Stories From The March On Blair Mountain – Part 2 The Rally
100_4088.JPG Continued from Part 1, The March. By the end of the week, over 300 people had joined the march, some having walked the full 50 miles. The campsite the…
John Edwards, Nancy Grace, Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann and Texas Governor Perry
And there you have all the fodder needed for Bill Maher's latest "New Rules"
The Importance of Undergraduates
Jeffrey Simpson raises an important and controversial issue this morning. At Canadian universities, he writes, undergraduates are at the bottom of the totem pole:They arrive at many campuses – this…
Fixing America’s Economy In Under 2:15
I know this is beginning to sound like a broken record but, as Robert Reich explains in under 2 minutes, 15 seconds, America's economic future depends on restoring that country's…
NDP Convention Question #1
Would it not make more sense to have all of Canada orange on that nice mural, instead of just the parts of Canada that supported you? The deeper question here…
Which Side Are You On Boy
Which side are you on? The zeitgeist is shifting. People are starting to question our owners. Maybe, just maybe, we can head off a lot of needless suffering.
A Housing Benefit for Ontario: An Affordable Plan To Help Alleviate Hunger and Homelessness
Anyone who has read this blog knows that the issues of poverty,hunger and homelessness are of particular interest to me, so when I come across a plan to help alleviate…
Kulchur
For those who think that the word “culture” applies to something pure and “authentic,” I found this account of the destruction of a sweat lodge in the Cree village of…
Weekly Round-Up: June 12 to June 18
Sunday, June 12 | National Post - First Nations ‘seeking clarity’ in a new name “Only a couple weeks into the Harper majority government, Aboriginal relations already seem off to…
You Teach People How To Treat You
The choice is yours.That's right, it's cryptic message day here at PDO.
Casting an Open Net in Ottawa
OpenMedia.ca met with eleven pro-Internet Members of Parliament Wednesday and Thursday in Ottawa to discuss our community-crafted research report, Casting An Open Net, and to highlight to lawmakers that Canadians…
When the Con Party Animals Go Wild
Lardy. Bean me with a bacon bit...or a Vienna sausage. They don't call them Con hogs for nothing eh? But who knew they were such party animals? Prime Minister Stephen…
Autism and Haircuts: Conor Has A Great Haircut Treat Adventure
Above: Conor after this morning's haircut. Below: Conor before this morning's haircut. Conor has full blown Autistic Disorder with profound developmental delays. Haircuts were a real challenge at one time.…
Favourite Poems XXXIX
The story of how Coleridge came to write this famous poem is probably too well known to bear repeating (but nonetheless is found here, for example.) I have sometimes wondered…