Have Another Doughnut America, Uncle Sam Wants You To Be Fat
The other day I was searching through the videos at Kahn Academy and I came across a series on the French Revolution. Intrigued, I decided to watch them. As the…
April 2012
Manila Uses Paint That Cleans the Air
This is groovy, a paint is being used on the walls of Manila that cleans the air. In the Philippine capital Manila, which is one of the most polluted cities…
Get serious about Syria
The Syrian conflict continues to boil – or boil over – when Syrian troops fired across the Turkish border on April 9, apparently killing either fleeing refugees or armed combatants.…
My latest aggravating interaction with Rogers
It seems every few months I have an aggravating experience with Rogers. A few months ago, I got a letter saying this was my final bill and my cable/Internet service…
April 25: Democracy in the dark
In the last provincial election, neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives had anything that could be called a platform. The closest was an Alward statement that he would listen. Oh,…
Why Harper’s Banana-Republicans Hate The Internet
It’s the one form of public communication they haven’t figured out how to control yet. Twitter in particular puts a bug up the collective butts of the Harper Gang because…
4531…SIlent Film Star Says USA Guv Spying
On her. Can you imagine? Susan Sarandon, an actress who hasn’t had a hit in almost two decades, claims that the US of A government, that would be President Obama’s…
Just in Case You’re Feeling Down: A Chorus of 1000 Sings Beethoven’s Ode to Joy
A friend sent me this link, and I’m charmed by the idea of so many people on one side of the word singing a work written by someone from a…
Ads As News A Swindle
It’s bothered me for quite some time how the “professional” media tends to cover campaign ads (particularly attack ads) as news, and thus goads the victim of the attack into…
Where do we go from here?
The end result of Monday’s Alberta election may have been yet another crushing PC majority, but it’s impossible to deny Alberta’s political climate hasn’t been permanently altered. With the Wildrose…
Massive student upsurge fuels major debates in Quebec society
A crowd estimated at 250,000 people or more wound its way through Montréal April 22 in Quebec’s largest ever Earth Day march. They raised many demands: an end to tar…
Square Heads
David Olive is right. Michael Ignatieff does not understand Canada. Certainly his conclusion that Quebec independence is inevitable must have Pierre Trudeau hurling curses at him from beyond the grave.…
Yertle the Turtle: Covert political operative
In today’s WTF news, Dr. Seuss’s, Yertle the Turtle, has been deemed “too political” for students at a Prince Rupert elementary school. The offending passage: “I know up on top…
Ethincal Oil Orders Canada Revenue Agency to Investigate the David Suzuki Foundation
During the 2012 federal budget, the Conservative government allocated $8 million to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to crackdown on charities engaged in “political activities.” The purge has begun. Yesterday,…
Public service announcement
If you are a high school student in the Alta Vista or Canterbury areas in Ottawa, this might be of interest to you! CANTERBURY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION’S ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jared Bernstein discusses the effect of raising taxes on the highest-income households, featuring this in particular: Growth and jobs. History shows that higher…
Live Long And Prosper, Already
Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the amazingly popular Star Trek series, was a man ahead of his time. Here is one of the things he to say about humanity and…
Life goes very fast
In this extraordinary case, in less than three minutes. Don’t be surprised if this affects you emotionally.
What Canadian Progressives Can Learn From VikiLeaks
Both the Rogue Page and VikiLeaks threw Harper’s Canadian Republicans completely off their game and most progressive Canadians loved it. The Harper Gang never saw these actions coming so they…