School’s Out
Yesterday received my last grades ever from Mount Allison. Although it’s not a surprise, it’s the last confirmation that I’m done and I’ll finally be graduating. It’s a bit outdated…
April 2012
Stephen Harper’s Day Off
If only we could make it permanent…
F-35 Scandal – 40,000 Feet Above the Average Canadian
“Roger that control, commencing scandal bomb drop…” So, I was having a discussion/argument last night with some friends about the 24 hour news cycle and the 15 second soundbite information…
Feds seek to appeal sex-trade ruling on bawdy houses
No surprise — but will they seek a stay pending appeal??? The Canadian Press The federal government seeks to appeal sex-trade ruling legalizing bawdy houses, living off the…
alberta election results 2012: regional breakdown.
Total votes province-wide in Alberta's 2012 General Election. MLA's elected: PC 61, Wildrose 17, Liberal 5, NDP 4. Vote totals in West Central constituencies (Drayton Valley-Calmar, Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills,…
Co-operatives—the proven alternative to capitalism
In this, the International Year of Co-operatives, we cannot remind ourselves too often of the tried and true alternative to conventional capitalism. Co-operatives have for generations offered a more humane…
The Manning Centre is Still a Registered Charity
Ethical Oil has written a letter to the Canada Revenue Agency to review the David Suzuki Foundation’s charitable status because, they allege, the Suzuki Foundation is a partisan political organization.…
Seriously, We Have to Fight Back
Gagging the armed forces, gagging the public service and, now, sending minders to shadow government scientists at an international forum, this is too much. We are ruled by a regime.…
More significant budget digits #nlpoli
3%: The amount by which Premier Kathy Dunderdale said she and her colleagues would be cutting spending in the current budget. As the Telegram editorial pointed out on Wednesday: Instead…
Have you Seen TED? The Possibilities of Enlightenment
We all lead busy lives (yes, even retired folk like me). Our desire for information and knowledge to allow us to intelligently interpret the world around us is limited by…
The Politics of Geometry and the Incompetence of the Prattling Classes
You wouldn’t think the victory of a Progressive Conservative government in Alberta, of all places, would be able to send the media into such a tizzy. A few months from…
Joint custody needs good communications between parents
Vamos v. Vamos, 2012 ONCA 262 holds, as is well established, that parents have to be at least on good speaking terms for joint custody to be awarded: To have custody of…
Humanity – A Lower Form of Life
We sit at the top of our planetary food chain but, when you’re at the top it’s easy, even natural, to imagine yourself far bigger and greater than you truly…
Sharing a Delightful Photo
This isn’t one I took, but I just have to share it with you. This is in my neighbourhood. In fact I may just walk past it this afternoon to…
The Home Ahead….
I have long been attracted to the small house movement…it seems so perfectly revisionist, as in re-envisioning the necessary and the portable..to devolve from what we are programmed to think…
Controversial Ex-Gay Study Retracted
Here’s another win for science! A controversial study conducted in 2001 that claimed a small minority of gay people were able to change their sexual orientation from gay to straight…
Out of the Mouth of Murdoch
Deep Throat is on the job, bringing you the latest news from around the globe, just for you political junkies out there .. today he reports from London, where the…
Frogs need rest too!
Read the CBC story.