On activist parties
I haven’t written much myself on the NDP’s relationship to the growing casserole protest movement (which in recent weeks has expanded well beyond its Quebec origins). But I’ll take some…
June 2012
Faytene Last-name-to-follow
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Some brief “stop press’ type items on Faytene, if I may. Why no full name mention on first reference, as I…
Splotch
Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: 100 cats
puppies!!!
Congratulations to Pooh Bear! and dogsled_stacie. Yukon Yahoos has its first litter of puppies! Readers of Stacie’s blog have been following this saga since that fateful day Woody and Pooh…
The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #1
This is Update #1 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Tracey McCrimmon, executive director of the Sundre Petroleum Operators Group, a community group that works with the industry, said…
Will the Northern Gateway Pipeline be the Conservatives ‘NEP’?
What do the Northern Gateway Project and the NEP have in common? I think everybody in Canada has heard of the NEP. In essence, Pierre Trudeau dreamed up a scheme…
Paul Fromm: Campus Alternative and "Countdown"
We continue to receive photos and documents from our readers as we proceed with our project to document the history of the early racist movement in Canada. A few days…
Protect Your Love
Via Osocio, a very likeable ad for HIV prevention and awareness from the Toronto-based Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention. Osocio notes the ad is less about sex than and…
"Masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action"
Such is the considered opinion of the Vatican on this harmless and pleasant pastime. The indignant definition was part of the Vatican’s critique of a book by Sister Margaret Farley,…
The Yes Men Strike Back
Clever lads. Hope they don’t get sued. Here are some of the people they faked into thinking the vid was real. Here’s the “making of” story
Will Dismal Jobs Report Give New Life To Keystone XL Plan?
boehnerand pipelines.jpg While the debate over the Keystone XL pipeline might have disappeared from the front pages in the last few weeks, the battle is still raging. And a grim…
Master of Science in Public Relations Curriculum at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Summer 2012 PRL 604 Writing for News and Public Relations Students learn the fundamentals of news writing and news media expectations, research and write various communications forms considered “the tools…
Who Will Make Transparency in Politics an Election Issue?
People really care about this issue but most of us don’t believe any political party will ever give up all that power. This great interview with Elizabeth May is worth…
Ars Technica: Big Media trying to bring U.S.-style anti-piracy efforts to Canada
It’s no secret that the Big Media lobby has been pushing for an Internet lockdown, with excessive restrictions on the way we use our own electronic services. Big Media has…
June 9:Wow! an NHL player will visit Moncton….
Front page, for sure. And that reminds me – my uncle was a big number in the Montreal sports world; and his New Year’s Eve parties frequently featured many of…
The Venus Movies
From NASA, here’s a montage of the planet Venus transiting the Sun earlier this week.\ The surface of the sun is recorded in a variety of wavelengths from visible light…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Erika Shaker points out how Quebec’s student protests are a natural and justified reaction to the policy choice to saddle young workers with…
Observations on the working world
It’s been a while since I last wrote a blog. (Have you missed me? What do you mean, you didn’t notice I was gone?) Now that I am what is…
Saturday Photo: Early Morning Reflections
Morning is a good time for reflecting on things, and for years I have used a morning walk for doing just that. But Friday I took my camera along to…
100 cats series
Accidentally today, a number of posts went up. I’m scheduling some cat images from the 100 cats series. Sometimes the WordPress app screws up and doesn’t remember a tap or…