Alberta town finally gets a secular school
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. I was surprised to learn that the Alberta town of Morinville didn’t already have a secular school system. But not as…
July 2012
4857…Happy Birthday South Sudan
It is South Sudan’s first birthday.The country that emerged from a civil war with Sudan is not out of the proverbial woods yet. The Associated Press reported that at the…
4856…Cash For Life For Vic Toews
And he will be able to live in his hometown to boot.Plus send people to prison and generally f’up their lives.The Winnipeg Free Press reports that “Sources say Toews is…
Bell, no better than Rogers
So I order a phone from Bell for Nunavut. Not a problem, I’ll have it in a few days… . Let’s just say, after a couple of weeks, a few…
Sentencing in dangerous driving cases
R. v. Rawn, 2012 ONCA 487 is a useful sentencing case for dangerous driving matters: General deterrence and denunciation are the most important factors in the determination of a sentence…
God Gene?
First it was God Particle (unrelated to God) and now certain scientists are talking about ‘God Gene’. Dr. Dean Hamer , a geneticist says that there is something called God…
Australia’s Girl Guides drop the Queen … and God
Having posted recently about an attempt to purge swearing allegiance to the Queen from the Canadian Oath of Citizenship, I couldn’t help but notice an article in The Guardian about…
Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre Yoga
Sexual assault is something no one deserves to experience. The Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre strives to help women who have been victims of sexual assault reclaim their lives through a…
Immigration Bill C31: Auschwitz Survivor Wiesel Confronts Harper
“I feel morally compelled to remain on the side of other uprooted men and women everywhere. Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.” The sobering…
Ottawa is “nodown” with the “hoedown”!
LOL! I kill me! I guess that if there were even a smidgen – as in a Higgs boson-sized smidgen – of love for country music, I’d be upset about…
Announcing Bad Science Watch
The promoters of science-based policy in Canada have a new defender. Bad Science Watch, a new Canadian science advocacy group, has issued a challenge to the Canadian government: stick to…
Sixth Estate Patronage List Rises to 1135 Names; Scrutiny Turned On Judicial Advisory Committees
I’ve never found it any more egregious than the government’s other hiring practices, but one of the hot button issues when it comes to Harper government patronage is alleged loading…
Words By Nowak – Internet Prices Climbing With No End in Sight
Canadian wireless and broadband Internet prices are high by international standards. In the case of broadband, those high prices are climbing even higher, which jibes with a recent report from…
Meatless Monday Thoughts: The Stinky Circle of Life
One of the problems in our industrialized, heavily urbanized North American society is the huge disconnect between our food system, and the cycle of life and death that nearly every…
The Long Tail of Ushahidi
I’ve got a post up over at TechPresident on Ushahidi. I’m basically responding to a new site called DeadUshahidi that points out a lot of Ushahidi maps never generate a…
Bob Rae’s Exporting Democracy
When Michael Ignatief was the leader of the Liberal Party, I lamented that someone whose pre-politics life was as an expert on foreign affairs and had written several books on…
July 9: Our aristocracy
The first section of today’s Moncton Times and Transcript will be a treat for those who just love close-up pictures of rubber boots in the mud at a rock concert…
When Johnny Cab breaks #nlpoli
Last week’s Environics poll caused more than a few people in the province to have a few sleepless nights trying to find a way to prove it was a crock…
Farming Could Save Detroit
Detroit has been hit hard by the ongoing economic claptrap that’s plaguing the global economy; the once-thriving oil-driven economy of the city is not fairing well. The city of Detroit…
Kicking it up a notch @NewhouseMasters
Today begins my first full week of graduate school. I’ve felt a bit overwhelmed at times here but there’s no way back from here. I have next to no graphic…