Selected Parenting Posts
This is a select list of posts I’ve made related to parenting, not including book reviews. Critical Navigation of Mainstream Schools, Part 2, July 2010 Critical Navigation of Mainstream Schools,…
September 2012
Selected Posts on Electoral Politics
The following is a select list of posts on electoral politics, not including book reviews. To Supporters of “Progressive” Parties: You Need Movements, September 2011 Horizons of Our Political Imaginations,…
Selected Posts About Movements
The following is a select list of posts related to social movements, not counting book reviews. What’s Different About Ontario? Thinking About Specificity in Student Organizing, Setpember 2012 Journalism and…
At Mass, a day before the book tour starts
From today’s second reading: “Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you.” So: can a conservative read James 5:1-6 and actually remain one? As…
How the Media Should Handle a Plagiarism Scandal
In recent days I’ve done what I can to show readers how horrendously the national media is coping with the news that one of its own, accomplished Globe & Mail…
Sept. 30: Sunday morning.
I always check out the faith pages (both of them) in the weekend TandT. And it always reminds me painfully of the business page. That’s the one that seems to…
Welcome Home, Omar…..or not…
Khadr eligible for parole next summer, lawyers say Let no one say that there be no trolls in this day and age…just read some of the comments at CBC online…
Khadr Comes Home
The Conservatives aren’t happy about it, but Omar Khadr has come home. They have done everything in their power to avoid this outcome. John Ibbitson writes this morning: Not only…
Liberals conceal ugly concessions (as other wages rise)
The proposed public sector “compensation restraint” legislation floated on Wednesday by the Liberals is neatly silent on whether the government will impose contract concessions on 500,000 working people. The government…
Don’t turn the CBC into an on-air beggar by Ian Morrison
FRIENDS says if the CBC adopts the PBS model of funding, it will be doomed to become a narrow elite service, rather than a mainstream player that is integral to…
Don’t turn the CBC into an on-air beggar by Ian Morrison
FRIENDS says if the CBC adopts the PBS model of funding, it will be doomed to become a narrow elite service, rather than a mainstream player that is integral to…
Apple Doesn’t Call Maps App Most ‘Powerful Mapping Service Ever’ Anymore
Oh dear: Story It goes without saying: Apple’s Maps app has been a bit of a disaster since its launch with iOS 6 earlier this month. Although Tim Cook said…
omar khadr: what can be said?
Now that Omar Khadr – 26 years old, 11 of those years spent in a concentration camp – is finally in Canada, I find little to say. His mistreatment at…
BREAKING: I’ve become a Conservative and a Senator!
Yep, that’s me. Busted. Boy, those iPolitics folks sure are smart!
Michigan Daily Promotes Harmful, Irrational ASAN Anti-Cure Ideology
In Autism as an identity, not a disease Michigan Daily editor Jennifer Xu pushes the harmful Neurodiversity ideology that autism is not a disease or a disorder that should be…
Abuse went beyond one person in one place
Laura Robinson’s incrimination of establishment man John Furlong led to quick and predictable responses in local media. Vancouver Sun scribbler Daphne Bramham painted a sympathetic picture of the man she…
Omar Khadr: A Child Soldier Comes Home
It has been a seemingly endless nightmare, a horror story not only for Omar Khadr, but also for the country that let him down so shamefully.But at least tonight he…