Learning beyond the classroom
I just received my final grades for this past semester. I’m halfway done my master’s degree and I have an excellent GPA. That’s all fine and dandy but that’s not…
2012
Privatization Via Blackmail
If you want to see why there isn’t much of a real left wing in the USA, this graph of those seeking the White House in 2008 pretty much covers…
andy barrie, war resister, awarded order of canada
Congratulations to Andy Barrie, former CBC broadcaster, on being awarded the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian honour. This CBC story says that Barrie “left the U.S. and moved…
Noam Chomsky Reflects on Contemporary Education
Despite the fact that it was fraught with a marking load I would not wish on anyone, my career as an English teacher offered many satisfactions, not the least of…
The year in political bloopers.
Ah, politics. It has the potential to inspire, and an even greater potential to inspire derisive laughter or fits of rage. Here, for your reading and enraging enjoyment, are my…
On forced growth
Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership campaign has featured plenty of discussion as to how to define success as a party and a province. But it’s well worth contrasting the varying forms of…
Lake Superior State Unicorn Hunting Regulations
Lake Superior State University apparently has a sense of humour. On the school’s website you can find an interesting regulation relating to an endangered species on campus: Unicorn Hunting Regulations…
Best of 2012
We’ve made it past the Mayan Apocalypse and are poised enter 2013, a brand spankin’ new year. ‘Tis the season for reviewing 2012. Here’s my personal, and entirely random, “best…
Go Away Michael Ignatieff
That is all. PS. You don’t have to read this piece on Iggy’s latest brainstorm. In fact, I’m linking to it so that you can positively decide not to read…
New York Subway Murder: What is this world coming to?
Image from surveillance video released by the NYPD shows a woman wanted in the subway push death of a man in Queens on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. / WCBS It…
An Anniversary Unremarked, and Happy New Year
Our house was built in 1912–first permits issued in late 1911, and occupation, it would appear, in the fall of the following year. I’d meant to make a little bumph…
Dec. 31: This is my third attempt at a blog…
haven’t had regular night’s sleep for four months, no sleep at all the last two nights, typos all over, and one hell of a cold. So we’ll see. I had…
Autism 2012: Disaster for the Autism Spectrum’s Intellectually Disabled
“Autism Spectrum Disorder Must meet criteria A, B, C, and D: A. Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across contexts, not accounted for by general developmental delays, and…
The Perpetual Talking Point Disaster #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale’s year-end talking points for 2012 were pretty grim. As she told CBC’s David Cochrane, the provincial government is facing an enormous deficit. The deficit is the result…
Out of Touch
There is no love lost between Stephen Harper and Joe Clark. When Clark’s official portrait was hung in the Centre Block four years ago, Stephane Dion and Paul Martin attended…
Thanks to…
Calvin and Hobbes… (1) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Do You Wonder Why Roadblocks Required?
@saskboy @afixedaddress The people affected by this, the general public, don't make the decisions. These trains are not full of politicians.— Nikki Eaton (@n_eato) December 31, 2012 When Canadians are…
Talking Point Politics #nlpoli
The Telegram’s Saturday front page story on Tory efforts to manipulate online polls and comments garnered two equal and opposite reactions over the weekend in that political echo chamber called…
Veteran Province Cartoonist Joins Deep Rogue Ram
Check out ‘Deep Rogue Ram’ and you will be saving it as a favourite. I certainly have. I discovered it by way of Laila Yuile’s ‘No Strings Attached’ another to…