Brock U study links low IQ with racism, prejudice
A Brock University study has come up with findings guaranteed to ignite a few fires on the net. Put in the most basic terms the research finds that people who…
February 2012
Good Luck, Mr. McBrearty!
Here is a concerned citizen from the Saguenay region, who has taken things further. Mr. Jacques McBrearty has filed a criminal complaint against Senator ‘sell-out’ Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu following his remarks…
Just sent in my cheque for the 2012 Rideau Lakes Cycle Tour
My road bike is in the shed, trapped behind several feet of snow blocking the door. We have six more weeks of winter and I’m not done with cross country…
Here kitty, kitty #nlpoli
Apparently natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy, Liberal leader Dwight Ball and NDP leader Loraine Michael will debate Muskrat Falls on VOCM this week. Okay, leave aside for a second the…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Vivian Belik looks at the long-ignored outcomes from a guaranteed income experiment in Dauphin, MB – and finds that the positive results of…
Bill C-10 will hit Nunavut hard, Shewchuk tells senators
This is a comment from a prison guard: “We all want safe streets and safe communities. But in the short term, the only way to implement bill C-10 in Nunavut…
Martin Regg Cohn On The Wider Implications of the Electro-Motive Debacle
So the first lesson of the London massacre: Ottawa must be vigilant about vetting foreign investment and retaining jobs, but also mindful of valuing — and anchoring — our homegrown…
Music for a Sunday: A movie or a measure
For some reason, this song always feels right to me in the dead of winter: Dreaming is free.
Resolute Newt
Rather than staging a pointless concession “rally” after his distant second-place finish in yesterday’s Nevada caucuses, bucking convention, Newt Gringrich opted instead to hold a bizarre 20-minute press conference at…
Leadership 2012 Roundup
Thanks to an end-of-week conference it’s been a few days since I’ve done a general roundup on the NDP leadership race. And based on the pace of activity, it looks…
Harper’s Canada and the reptilian brain
It’s out of fashion now, but Paul D. MacLean’s triune brain model still seems to have some limited application to the political sphere: MacLean contended that the reptilian complex was…
4183…You Think Your Boss Is A Prick?
Bill Belichick, the coach of the New England Patriots, who are playing the New York Giants in the Super Bowl tonight, cut wide out Tiquan Underwood last night. Y’gotta figure…
4182…The Ultimate Game Is Today
The Super Bowl. The best Super Bowl quote ever comes from Duane Thomas, Dallas Cowboys, a star of Super Bowl V and VI. When asked what it was like to…
What Breast Cancer Is and Is Not
Susan G. Komen Run for the Cure doesn’t have much of a direct presence on this side of the border, so I could watch the recent public relations train wreck…
Why did Caterpillar buy a plant only to destroy it?
http://bit.ly/wNcPwC "So the first lesson of the London massacre: Ottawa must be vigilant about vetting foreign investment and retaining jobs, but also mindful of valuing — and anchoring — our…
Smug Stupidity
Jeffrey Simpson wrote in yesterday’s Globe and Mail that: Under the Harper government, Canada lost its bid for a Security Council seat – the first time it had ever been…
Representation & Depression
With parliament onceagain back in session I am again fighting depression, its not thatthe attack on our democracy increases any more during these time butthat it receives greater attention and…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of…