rtod: survivors speak out
Today’s Revolutionary Thought of the Day is dedicated to every survivor of sexual abuse or sexual assault who suffers in silence. Here is the thought. Tell someone. It may be…
July 2012
4925…69 000 Dollar Barista
Give or take. Your armed forces are looking for a manager for the coffee services at the Saint Jean Garrison in La Belle. The Ottawa Citizen reports that the job…
Why Do I Care, Why Do You Care?
I just love when I receive messages from strangers who share my interest in exploring ideas about caregiving. Last evening, the little red number ‘1’ appeared above the message symbol…
More Americans than ever claim no religious affiliation!
This is an encouraging sign coming from the USA. Unbelief is on the uptick. People who check “None” for their religious affiliation are now nearly one in five Americans (19%),…
Regina City Council – Stadiumapalooza #YQRcc
Check out my presentation here, or on Access 7 replay later on. CTV, Global, and LP mentioned me, but the CBC reporter they sent wasn’t interested in a quote even…
The Heat’s On
Thomas Homer Dixon writes this morning that the hot weather we have endured over the last decade has taught us something about crop yields: In the past few years, agricultural…
More on Rob Ford
I hope that I can be forgiven for what might appear to some as either an unhealthy obsession with Toronto’s chief magistrate or an Ontario-centric regional preoccupation. It’s just that…
penn state sanctions: justice for – and by – survivors
I spent some time last night reading reaction to the sanctions against Penn State University set out by the NCAA. (I should qualify that: I was reading the reactions of…
Medicare’s Orphans: Dr. Melvin DeLevie On Canada’s Archaic Approach To Autism Treatment
Medicare for Autism Now! is featuring a series of interviews in connection with the Medicare’s Orphans series. Interview 3 features Dr. Melvin DeLevie a practicing British Columbia physician with extensive…
Hand drawn grids
When I’m not posting nonsense here, and writing novels that you can (ahem), buy here, I teach at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, at Western. A lot of…
Tim Ball’s Balls Burned?
It looks like Tim Ball’s legal defense in the defamation suit brought against him by climate scientist Michael Mann has gone entirely off the rails. Its a long story, and…
UPDATE-1: Chinada
China’s state oil company is offering $15 billion for Calgary’s Nexen. At this point I’ve really lost count of how many Chinese acquisitions have been made in the last few…
Magical Thinking and the Muskrat Falls Tax #nlpoli
Muskrat Falls seems to be intimately connected to magic, at least in some people’s minds. For a while there, the gang at Nalcor sounded like they had found a way…
New Federal Party
The Online Party of Canada is now eligible for registration from Elections Canada. This means if they run a candidate in a by-election, they become a fully-fledged registered party. From…
Another Arthur Topham Update
The fight against hate continues, section 13 or not. h/t. Some background here.
Referendums: The Perils and the Possibilities
Direct democracy is to representative democracy what extra-virgin olive oil is to refined olive oil. The latter is more cost effective and, perhaps according to some, just as good. But…
Crabs got cars
Bird Box Crab – YouTube:
Questions for Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson
Now that Rex Tillerson, the CEO of Exxon Mobil has admitted that CO2 emissions will cause warming David Appell thinks some follow-up questions are in order: Last month, Exxon Mobil…
The Conservative Armed Forces of Canada
Once again the Canadian Forces have been caught playing partisan politics, shilling for the Conservative government. A program to educate parliamentarians about the work being done by the Canadian military…