5460…Russia Gets It
At least when it comes to hockey as in they put hockey first and politics second.Grabbed this from today’s Ottawa Sun: “Financial issues trump the development of the game for…
2012
5459…Happy Birthday Mr. Prime Minister
No not the current PM, the next one. Justin Trudeau turns younger than me today. Hope you get double the gifts JT. WFDS
follow-up memo to children’s aid: we told you so. happy christmas.
Back in May, I blogged about a family in my area who faced a nightmare: social services had threated to remove their child from their home. Both parents have disabilities,…
Autism Self Injury and Aggression Can Occur Quickly With No External Provocation
The pictures set out below this commentary were taken in May 2012 and posted on Saturday, May 26, 2012 under the title Conor’s Autism Reality: From Joy To Self Injurious…
God Bless Us, Everyone
Bill Maher’s 2001 Christmas message is just as timely and wise now as it was 11 years ago. For the second year in a row, I will allow Maher, an…
Deception and financial fakery for friends
A few days ago, I wrote Cronies, henchmen and the future and noted the loss of revenue government derives from natural resources, even though prices have risen dramatically in the…
Putting Christ back in Christmas: maybe Christians themselves need to ‘press reset’
Jesus, centre, separates the sheep from the goats. Don’t ask what happens to the goats. Below: St. Paul and modern Evangelical favourite Ayn Rand. Today is Christmas, and thus an…
‘Idle No More’ Receives Support from Columbia- Aboriginal Pushback Grows
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Support for Attawapiskat Chief Teresa Spence is it sees going international as the word of her hunger strike for aboriginal justice continues. Canada’s Prime Minister…
Keeping Christmas Well
One of the reasons I re-read A Christmas Carol every year is for the joy of Dickens’ wonderful descriptions of Christmas in Victorian London: The cold became intense. In the…
Chief Spence, Harper, and the Attawapiskat Christmas
I didn't want to blog tonight. I just wanted to enjoy Christmas.But I couldn't get these two contrasting images out of my mind. Chief Theresa Spence slowly starving to death.While…
Merry Christmas To All Cowichan Conversations Readers, Contributors and Enablers
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah now past, Season’s Greetings and the lot. It is a time to revel in the company of friends and family, eat too…
Bah Humbug!
Physicists who want to protect traditional Christmas realize that the only way to keep from changing Christmas is not to observe it. (via xkcd) That is all.
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas and seasons greetings to our clients, colleagues, readers and friends from all of us at Wise Law Blog. Wishing you and yours a safe and happy holiday season.…
Merry Christmas, Idle No More
So Mallory’s opened her ration of one pre-Christmas present. We’re stuffed from our nascent traditional Christmas Eve meal of cheese fondue and a few clicks north of here Theresa Spence…
Hunger striker Chief Theresa Spence gets 5 500 Twitter followers in only 40 hours
Today marks Day 14 of Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence’s indefinite hunger strike. Still, Canada’s Prime Minister refuses to tear down his stubborn wall of silence over the peaceful protest. He…
Ski Lake Louise Now In Google Streetview
If this view isn’t enough to get you to contact your travel agent, it should at least motivate you to connect your computer to your high definition television set. It’s…
Christmas Wish
Dear Santa: While you’re up on the roof and whatnot (incidentally, you want to make sure you hit the southeast chimney; the other two are just for show), would you…
Merry Christmas – 2012
Merry Christmas – 2012 from ‘Buckdog’!Here’s wishing a wonderful and peace filled Christmas to all who drop by! I’ll see you in a few days. All the Best!LeftdogRegina, Saskatchewan, Canada
People don’t need experts; they just need someone who knows
This is a really good analysis. I think you correctly identify the missing bit – helping students over those rough patches. Interestingly, to my mind, although the problem of understanding…
Happy holidays from Soviet Russia (and us!)
In the spirit of the holidays, we’d like to share with you this lovely collection of Soviet greeting cards. Enjoy! (There’s more where that come from if you check out…