4334…Stephen Harper Is A Liar
Plain and simple. Our beloved Prime Minister out and out lied in the House of Commons. Of course one is, for some weird reason, allowed to lie in the House.…
March 2012
4333…34 And Oh
That is alma mater’s record against CIS competition in men’s basketball. Last night Carleton won their 8th national championship in 10 years by wiping out the number two team in…
‘Doonesbury’ abortion strip sparks controversy
Part of an earlier Doonesbury strip in abortion-related series A Doonesbury strip due to run next week that addresses the harsh realities of the Texas abortion law may be rejected…
Indifferent To Democracy
Indifference and democracy go together about as well as oil and water, which is not at all. Yet that is precisely where we we are today, far too may Canadians…
QP: Did you hear about Guelph?
Normally I have a high tolerance for the hijinks of Question Period. An unusually high one, if truth be told. I enjoy heckles – provided that they’re clever or witty.…
Fox News’s Attacks on Climate Science Now Include The Denial of Basic Physics
varneybastardi.jpg There was a time, believe it or not, when Fox New’s Shepard Smith openly mocked global warming deniers—seriously comparing them to a man who got stuck in a portable…
RoboCon: About Those Phone Lists
Now that Poutine’s identity is out in the open, we need to know how he made those calls. Fortunately I know some good bloggers who can help you understand that…
Madeleine Parent, Rest In Peace
I am very sad to report that I just learned (via an email, so I have no link) of the death of Madeleine Parent at the age of 93. My…
Looks Like Someone Has a Case of the Mondays
So, I’ve been looking over the stats on my blog and have noticed that my end of days posts with fun videos and links are fairly popular. I like to…
Left Over 2012-03-12 16:53:24
This is the sorta thing that makes me glad, yet again, that I came to Canada and took out citizenship decades ago.. I may have been born in the USA,…
Method of Loci
for Marie Your name floats, fades. Not actually you just the you I see in bits and bytes Your name, hovering, bifurcated. You are in parts. Crisp sheets, bone white,…
Climate Change Denial Isn’t About Science, or Even Skepticism
David Suzuki.png Cross-posted from the David Suzuki Foundation's Science Matters blog. By David Suzuki with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Editorial and Communications Specialist Ian Hanington. Let's suppose the world's…
Meh…
Count me amongst the 54% of Canadians who, according to a recent poll, rather cynically believe that the so-called “robocall scandal” is just “politics as usual” and therefore nothing terribly…
Geist: Proposed changes to Copyright Bill C-11 by party
By Michael Geist The Bill C-11 committee has just opened the clause-by-clause review of the copyright bill with 39 amendments on the table: 8 from the goverment, 17 from the…
The Fight to Protect Our Internet Privacy is Not Over!
I penned a blog entry for the Liberal Party of Canada in Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge-Mission about Bill C-30 and Bill C-11: When the Liberal Party of Canada in Pitt Meadows-Maple…
Robocon: Bob Rae has only 9 days left to defend our democracy by stopping the clock
And a study by a Simon Fraser professor finds that the robocalls could have affected the result of the May 2 2011 election: In a new paper, a Simon Fraser…
Death of the CAQ, Return of the PQ?
That was certainly quick. A couple of months after François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) swallowed up the old Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ), and ended up with eight experienced…
The Argosy is hiring!
The Argosy is hiring. Job descriptions are available here. Here’s details from John Brannen, the outgoing Editor in Chief: The Argosy, the Independent Student Journal of Mount Allison is hiring…
pity the 1%, continued
Further to our chat about the tone-deaf 1%: go here for Brian McFadden‘s latest in the New York Times.