Is ‘Jesus’ Wife’ papyrus fragment a forgery?
Stephen Emmel, a professor of Coptology at the University of Muenster who was on the international advisory panel that reviewed the 2006 discovery of the Gospel of Judas, said the…
2012
Is ‘Jesus’ Wife’ papyrus fragment a forgery?
Stephen Emmel, a professor of Coptology at the University of Muenster who was on the international advisory panel that reviewed the 2006 discovery of the Gospel of Judas, said the…
About Stephen Harper’s ambassadorial timeshare: maybe he missed the lesson on the Statute of Westminster!
Canadian and British Joint-Embassy diplomats work out their timeshare arrangements. Below: The young Stephen Harper on the day he missed his history lecture after lingering too long over Atlas Shrugged;…
Journalists slow to criticize colleague
Reader contributions at mainstream media sites are occasionally unreadable, occasionally delightful. Here’s one of the latter type from the Globe & Mail after Margaret Wente defended herself on charges of…
Two tier wage scales
This is my fourth post today and I wanted to stop writing. I can’t, there is a flood of issues which I feel compelled to comment on. Next up: Two-tier…
Just How Stupid is Niall Ferguson? Very Stupid.
“But the real point of me isn’t that I’m good looking. It’s that I’m clever. I’ve got a brain! I would rather be called a highly intelligent historian than a…
Alberta’s Evergreen Party to discuss name change, choose new leader.
Tweet2008: Led by George Read, the Alberta Greens run 79 candidates and earn 4.58% in the provincial election, the party’s highest level of support ever. 2009: After a divisive leadership…
Exodus and Reconstruction: Working-Class Women at the Heart of Globalization
What follows is a pleasant surprise i received a couple of weeks ago – a new essay by Bromma, whose writings i have found provocative and useful over the years.…
Canada Is Missing The Poverty Line
Canada is holding out its hands asking for change, our country is in poverty and it needs our help. Where other countries are working to reduce their poverty like responsible…
Daryl Katz fuels #yegarena P.R. war with trip to Seattle
I hate writing posts about the stupid arena. I love my hometown, I moderately enjoy the Oilers – I certainly don’t want them to leave. At the same time however,…
Late night memories of plagiarism
No disciplinary action to date for Mr. Harper on this egregious example, totally exposed on video. Statesman of the year, the early years…
Obama Campaign Day 4
Promptly at quarter to six, an army of volunteers storms the Obama campaign office. The energy and buzz created by the storm of supporters could light up the Empire State…
Obama Campaign Day 4
Promptly at quarter to six, an army of volunteers storms the Obama campaign office. The energy and buzz created by the storm of supporters could light up the Empire State…
Please help to make this go viral
Use Facebook, twitter, email, blogs – whatever it takes. It is about voter fraud in the US – language is a bit rough, but her heart is in the right…
Another reason politicians so detested
Recipients of Kenney missive wondering how government knows their sexual orientation BY GLEN MCGREGOR, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 “OTTAWA — An email extolling the Conservative government’s record on…
Harper selling out to UK?
It’s not necessarily a bad thing to be able to share consular services. Canada and Australia have had such a sharing agreement for over 25 years — Australia handles Canadian…
CBC News: Yukon phone outage blamed on aging infrastructure
Bell has made it clear that should their takeover of Astral Media go through, they would use ‘tangible benefits’ (an owed tax on the $3.4B purchase) to fund the expansion…
A pattern to Jason Kenney’s online petition data mining
This story today rang a bell for me: “Jason Kenney’s office mined online petition to target message to gay Canadians.” Kenney’s office has done this before. About two years ago,…
The Summer of Muslim Discontent
The so-called “Arab Spring:” is a distant and bitter memory to those who fought and struggled for a better world, not to speak of the thousands who lost, life and…