Networks of Exclusion
In December 2011, national and international media leaders, scholars, practitioners and stakeholders met to address the challenges and opportunities facing visible minority screen media producers in the Canadian media industry.
July 2012
Networks of Exclusion
In December 2011, national and international media leaders, scholars, practitioners and stakeholders met to address the challenges and opportunities facing visible minority screen media producers in the Canadian media industry.
A Mean Place Gets Meaner
Tondra MacCharles reports this morning that, in Canada’s prisons, the number of violent assaults is on the rise: Over the past three years, ending March 31, 2012, the total number…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
* Yes, President Eisenhower was a Republican.
A Doctor, A Rabbi and A Nobel Laureate Walk Into… (Part 1)
The Conservative cuts to refugee Health Care have sparked some controversy. And now doctors all around Canada as well as a Toronto Rabbi group from Toronto and even Elie Wisel…
Work in progress: Moebius’ Frankenstein #nlpoli
Here’s a close-up of Moebius’ Frankenstein, the project currently on the old modeller’s workbench. The detail is a little fuzzy because the picture is via a cellphone not a real…
Alberta Gerrymander?
Prior to the release of the proposed ridings for Alberta, there were fears from the NDP and even Liberals, that the new ridings would be gerrymandered in such a way…
Deregulation and privatization – a cautionary tale
Terrance Heath writes a story of frequent and ruinous power outages in territory served by The Potomac Electric Power Company, a utility supplying electricity to Washington, D.C. and surrounding communities…
Is nothing sacred? Turbulent pastor jumps to the front of Calgary’s Stampede Parade!
Pastor Artur Pawlowski and members of his flock march at the head of the Calgary Stampede Parade on Friday. Below: Pastor Pawlowski with Alberta Solicitor-General Jonathan Denis. Below that: Pastor…
Nard and the Evaporators cover Hot Nasties
…at Sled Island. Here.
Canada’s military: soldiers or psychopaths?
Canada’s Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Walt Natynczyk Photo: Jake Wright, The Canadian Press This interview with Canada’s Chief of Defence Staff says more about the psychopathology of militarism than…
Test post from mobile app
I just downloaded the blogger app for my cellphone. I am testing if this works!
Test post from mobile app
I just downloaded the blogger app for my cellphone. I am testing if this works!
Test post from mobile app
I just downloaded the blogger app for my cellphone. I am testing if this works!
Zach Armstrong: Step Up, Step Aside
I recently attended the Ontario Liberal Party’s Provincial Council in Sudbury. It was great to see so many dedicated Liberals working together in Northern Ontario, but one moment was particularly…
Micah Goldberg: Trudeau Leadership Needs Big Ideas
Politics is more about timing than it is skill. Being the right person in the right place at the right time is more conducive to political success than being the…
Justin Trudeau is a Serious Candidate for a Serious Party
I agree with Andrew Coyne that the Liberal Party of Canada needs to be the party of bold policy ideas and that on some issues we need to be to…
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass (Frederick Douglass was a slave who escaped — by praying with his legs he means he left his master. His point, more broadly, is that the oppressed have…
Saturday Photo: The Loveliest Flowers in the World
Just got back from delivering Jeanne and Elin home after a shower for Sophie and baby Thomas (not to mention Lukas.) It was delightful to see how Sophie’s friends wanted…
What should be a crime?
"But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg" -Thomas Jefferson, Notes…