People’s Pick for CBC Chair
Letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper with the results of the People’s Pick for CBC Chair, an online vote sponsored by FRIENDS to underscore the need to end the practice…
April 2012
A Lost Generation
Mitt Romney and George Bush the Elder share at least one characteristic. As former governor Anne Richards used to say, each “was born with a silver foot in his mouth.”…
linkathon part 4: the talking pineapple is a window into for-profit education
You’ve probably heard about the pineapple. Eighth-graders in New York State recently took a standardized test (Canadian translation: students in grade eight wrote an exam) where they were asked about…
Morning house extraction panic conversation
So I’m rushing to get out the door this morning. Mallory is already ready and is sitting in the chair in our bedroom, waiting for me.
Green Party of Sask AGM ; Hot Wind
I helped out at the Green Party of Saskatchewan’s AGM this year. It’s the first Green anything AGM I’ve been to. I’ve previously been to a Sask Liberal leadership convention…
linkathon part 3: the human cost of zero tolerance
This story on the impossibly high cost of so-called zero tolerance laws reminds me of the breed-specific legislation (anti-pitbull laws) plaguing Ontario. Reacting to media-created public hysteria, legislators create laws…
"Like" Might Just Be Peer Pressure
According to published studies by Dr. Tina McCorkindale, an assistant professor at Appalachian State University’s Department of Communication, “18- to 29-year-olds are the Facebook generation,” and it’s not the Millennial…
Nine years older nine years later
It’s been so long I had to look up what SARS stood for (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). That was part of the underlying score as I spent five weeks in…
linkathon part 2: charlotte’s web at 60
Two great books – both children’s classics, and both simply great books for any reader – had milestone birthdays this year. A Wrinkle In Time, which I’ve blogged about before,…
CBC to jettison Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!
Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, two popular U.S. game shows, will not be returning to the CBC prime-time or prime time lineup in the fall of 2012.
linkathon part 1: hawkcam 2012
I have a bunch of links I want to share, and no real post for any of them. I think readers don’t like linkathons, so I’m putting each link in…
Where’s Waldo
Bruce Anderson articulates well the challenges we Liberals face moving forward. The very last line sums up nicely the predicament The choices the Liberals make over the next few months…
4560…Want To Know A Secret?
Ask the Stephen Harpers. The Globe and Mail reports that “Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has won this year’s Code of Silence Award from the Canadian Association of Journalists.”Apparently they, the…
Interpersonal Politics – Movie Monday
So, recently a number of friends of mine have gone on the job hunt or are just generally trying to figure out their professional life. Maybe you’ve guessed that by…
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies follows a group of boys as they go to the worst summer camp ever. There are no tents or cabins for them to sleep in, the…
Progress Is Measured In Small Increments
A decades-old pro-asbestos lobby group, currently funded by the Quebec government, will be shutting its doors after notifying the federal government of its plan to dissolve. …but it can be…
Super Hero Leaps For Climate Action
Last year a hole had to be cut in the ice to allow us to leap, but for the second annual Leap in Red Lake For Climate Action, the lake…
The Harper Perversion Of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program
In what looks like yet another invitation by the Harper regime to corporate thievery in Canada, Human Resources Minister Diane Finley last week announced that employers will now be able…
The Muskrat Ah-Prentice #nlpoli
The local Tories were all twitterpated over the weekend with Jim Prentice’s comments about the Lower Churchill. One suspects, of course, that they were loving it all up for the…