democrat_and_republican_symbols.jpg Over the past year or more, I’ve profited from a series of conversations and exchanges with Yale’s Dan Kahan, the NSF supported researcher who has made great waves studying…
I have new next-door-neighbours again. In the five years I’ve been here, I’ve had five different sets of people living on the other side of my east wall. The most…
I love when the right and big corporations use the ‘free speech’ (or in this case, ‘freedom of expression’) argument from everything to excusing defamation and libel to putting out…
In the upcoming election, Barack Obama will not be challenged by the Republicans, who frankly have given up on even pretending to be politicians serving the public, but by the…
With an Alberta election on the horizon this spring, the Wildrose Alliance have brought on Tom Flanagan to manage their campaign. For those of you who have never heard of…
Raising the age of eligibility for Old Age Security/Guaranteed Income Supplement (OAS/GIS) benefits is the worst possible way to deal with the retirement income security crisis facing Canadians. Experts such…
Never mind all the guff about Ronald Reagan. Reagan was an amiable-seeming father figure who did what his wife and her astrologer and Exxon told him to do. He regularly…
Phenomenal, is all I have to say. Phenomenal. Honestly, I think this is great. It is far to easy to read this as though I intend irony or sarcasm, but…
100 Best Sex Tips of the Year. Bigger, Better Pleasure. Shrink Your Inner Thighs! The Smile That Gets You What You Want. The Sexy Confidence Men Can’t Resist. The above…
A note sent to me from my favourite MRT (Medical Radiation Technologist). A reminder too, that nurses aren’t the centre of the universe, even if we think we are. Some…
A second Conservative government agency with staff but no function has been discovered by the tenacious Greg Weston. Readers will recall Weston’s coverage of the Canadian Employment Insurance Financing Board,…
Would love to see PEI schools develop Media Literacy programs in Junior High, maybe even in Grade 6. My daughter is in Grade 6 and we talk about these types…
Here are the leading legal headlines for Friday, January 27, 2012 from Wise Law on Twitter : Costa passengers offered $14,460 for ruined cruise, trauma India’s 30-Year-Old Divorce Ends Rogers…
On the same day that the Globe and Mail reported on Stephen Harper’s “grand plan to reshape Canada,” and on Tony Clement’s announcement that the “budget axe could cut deeper,…
Before I forget, it’s Day 10, waiting for our Premier, Robert Ghiz and Liberal MP’s Sean Casey and Lawrence MacAulay to comment on Resolution #58. 10days since the PEI NDP…
Ten days ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was eagerly criticizing NDP leadership Thomas Mulcair over his French citizenship. The Prime Minister emphasized his Canada-first and always patriotism. In my case,…
I wrote a article the other day for my blood using voice rec mission on my android phone and it is very impressive how so much is it was very…
Tobi Cohen’s report on fund-raising in the NDP’s leadership race ends up serving largely as an analysis of Nathan Cullen’s position and fund-raising to date due to his willingness to…
In closing the Crown should not seek to sway by emotion but by logic and reason. Obviously in any trial there is some emotional response – that’s normal. But Crown…
