It is About the Language, Dummy
Should speak English Or French to work here This is an open letter to Jason Kenny, Canada’s federal minister of immigration. “Skill labour” Immigrants need to understand and speak English…
August 2012
‘Anybody But Crockatt’ Update: Calgary Centre by the Numbers
Anybody But Crockatt? Redford Tory cabinet Christine Cusanelli slams Calgary Centre Conservative nomination candidate Joan Crockatt. Actual Alberta politicians may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Ms. Crockatt. Seems as…
Justin Trudeau: hopeless, or only hope?
The Justin Trudeau bandwagon is getting pretty crowded, and it hasn’t even left the bandwagon station yet. OK, I have no idea if bandwagons had stations, or really what a…
guest post: evan berger and the politicization of the alberta public service.
TweetBy Jerry MacDonald As we observe the farce of a defeated former MLA & Agriculture Minister, Evan Berger, being hired by the Deputy Minister of his former department, we must…
Is Caregiving Women’s Work?
Last week I had the pleasure and the privilege of speaking with a group of caregiver activists in a conference call hosted by WEGO Health, a terrific online information tool…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Armine Yalnizyan points to the Law Commission of Ontario’s proposals to make sure that labour laws don’t stack the deck against workers, and…
The Rideau River…
… truly one of the great perqs of living in this City. (8) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
5051…Bacon Jam
Finally.My real world friend David Pimm as tipped me off to the fact that The Market, a resto in Fairmont Hot Springs, B. C., has such a product on their…
No Vale on the Plains?
I had the following comments in yesterday’s front-page story on Vale’s decision to postpone its proposed $3-billion potash mine at Kronau, Saskatchewan: Regina economist Erin Weir, who is widely expected…
5050…Jean Charest And The Nine Year Itch
I was doing a little research and noticed that since the end of the Maurice Duplessis era no party in La Belle has broke through the nine year barrier. The…
White privilege | Dulce et Decorum
Source: http://noraloreto.ca/2012/08/17/white-privilege/ Some signs that you benefit from privilege: 1. Your white skin has never caused people to pause and think, damn this person may be (fill in the blank…
White privilege | Dulce et Decorum
Source: http://noraloreto.ca/2012/08/17/white-privilege/ Some signs that you benefit from privilege: 1. Your white skin has never caused people to pause and think, damn this person may be (fill in the blank…
Assange speaks to media from Ecuadorian embassy
“Speaking from the balcony of the embassy, where he is staying to avoid arrest by British police who want to extradite him to Sweden, Assange said the United States risked…
Seventy years ago – remember
DIEPPE, France – Commemorative ceremonies today are marking the 70th anniversary of the Dieppe raid during the Second World War. Thousands of people turned out in the French coastal town…
16th Time Was The Try For Finding a Hotel Room in Montreal Last Night
Has your significant other ever asked you if you could go somewhere for the weekend or even the day and you make the commitment to do it, before working out…
Did You Know 95% of Blogs Are Abandoned?
This one was for nearly a year, until today! I started blogging on my personal website http://laforet.ca in June 2008, but for a variety of reasons stopped in September 2011,…
some stuff i saw on facebook
A collection of stuff I saved from Facebook, courtesy of Snipping Tool. If only this were true! Then it might be a little more difficult for governments to sell people…
Michael Bryant
I knew him at different phases. Before was an MPP, and before we had received the privilege of governing. He was full of promise, then. Destined for great things. You…
Time for a Hiatus
Time for a late-summer technology hiatus. See you soon. Recommend this Post
In Search of Heroes
I am a little rushed this week an so will simply republish this article by Elizabeth May who is far better qualified to speak about such matters than I. On…