Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Sunday reading. – It’s a few months old, but the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy’s comparison of U.S. states with a zero personal income tax…
June 2012
NDP Rise To 37%, Conservatives Drop To 30%
Since Tom Mulcair was chosen to lead the party back in March, the NDP has maintained a strong support across Canada, which has continued to grow. The opposite is true…
Fathers, Dads, Papas, Grandfathers
Today is Father’s Day. In the realm of disability and family, we talk most often about mothers. But today, I would like to say a few words about what it…
Near Hope, B.C., on way to Kinsellabration
Son Three: Dad, is Mountain Dew a spermicide? Me: What? Ask your mother.
Omnibus Scandalbus
Recently Canadians have begun to take notice of the Harper Conservatives' tactic of piling dozens or hundreds of pieces of legislation into one supersized bill, so that most of what…
Omnibus Scandalbus
Recently Canadians have begun to take notice of the Harper Conservatives’ tactic of piling dozens or hundreds of pieces of legislation into one supersized bill, so that most of what…
Omnibus Scandalbus
Recently Canadians have begun to take notice of the Harper Conservatives' tactic of piling dozens or hundreds of pieces of legislation into one supersized bill, so that most of what…
Omnibus Scandalbus
Recently Canadians have begun to take notice of the Harper Conservatives’ tactic of piling dozens or hundreds of pieces of legislation into one supersized bill, so that most of what…
Chapter IV: A New Hope
Now that Team Coyne’s campaign for the Liberal leadership has come out into the light, one wonders if we can convince Parliamentary process expert, ace thumb-typer, tireless CBC news minx…
My father taught me so much
and I’m passing it all on to my kids in just this way.Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Media Helps Sell The Myth Of “Job Killing Regulations”
unemployment-numbers.jpg Repeat something often enough, and it becomes true. That phrase has been a common theme among think tanks and politicians for decades. And sadly, there is a lot of…
Pathologies revealed
Paul Wells is right to point out the parallels between the McGuinty Libs’ environmentally-destructive, all-or-nothing omnibus bill and the similar legislation being rammed through Parliament by the Harper Cons. But…
My Letter To My Tory M.P.
As mentioned in my previous post, the Harper Conservatives are starting to receive ‘blowback’ as a result of their heavy-handed and undemocratic push of Bill C-38, their budget omnibus bill.…
Is it worth it?
Sometimes writing seems like a lonely, pointless, and possibly self-destructive activity. I mean, I COULD be doing other things with my time. Then you get a review like this, and…
Racists, Skinheads And White Supremacists Praise The Conservative’s Anti-Human Rights Law
(Neo-nazi white supremacists in Calgary love the Conservative private member’s Bill) “A Conservative private members’ bill that repeals part of Canada’s hate speech laws has passed the House of Commons…
Connectivism as Epistemology
Responding to questions from Vance McPherson 1) What is your response to Rita Kop’s suggestion that connectivism is a new epistemology but not a new learning theory? As I understand…
Happy Fathers’ Day
Regardless of whether a retro-Dad (as right) or a crushingly progressive radical, to all Fathers everywhere — Happy Fathers’ Day!!!
Father’s Day
When I think of my dad these days, what comes to mind is, oddly enough, my leg. Specifically it’s the back of my right calf. It’s balding. Again I’m reminded…
Alarmed
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Some words for Lorraine, via Peter Cashin #nlpoli
Lorraine Michael should bear in mind that some very famous Newfoundland and Labrador politicians found themselves accused of defaming someone. That’s really the essence of the current question of privilege…