Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation by Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard (McGIl University Press 2008).I don't have time to write a detailed review of this…
Miss Vicky has always wanted to see some kind of Hallowe’en event in the ‘hood. Hallowe’en is the best, isn’t it? When else do you get to dress up and…
No, the Saskatchewan Roughriders shouldn’t try to plan to win games the way they did today. But while the ‘Riders left plenty of room for improvement, they also showed some…
The NDP are getting a free ride – at least they certainly are on the energy file. I must ask again: Why are they not condemning the proposed twinning of…
As I wrote about last night, former Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day testified before a Federal Court on Thursday to explain why, in 2008, he renewed five security certificates, including…
Harper wanted to get big headlines and photo-op for meeting with Vladimir Putin. He wanted to have bragging rights that he raised the issue of Syria and Iran with Putin.…
There’s a remarkable story that is not in Saturday TandT – though it has appeared in papers around the world. Let me bore you a little bit at the start…
Blogging has been light non-existent for the past couple weeks, as I’ve been preoccupied with a fifteen-part chronicle of my life in fuel cells. A vacation now beckons, meaning that…
Just when you thought you had heard it all… Here it comes again! Bev Oda was busted for smoking in a Washington DC hotel room, and fined $250 dollars for…
This video nails it, but Canadians take note as well. Voter suppression and other voter control efforts are underway by the Harperites!
Steve’s biggest fan, Israel’s Benny Netanyahu, has sung praises of Canada’s p.m. for severing diplomatic ties with Iran. Canada said it acted because Iran was a terrorist state supporting Assad…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Stephen Kimber makes the case for a financial transactions tax in Atlantic Business: (W)hat can supposedly sovereign nations do when individual governments…
Hi folks, this week I’m playing a few more things from the “best of” The Skwib. My obsession with the technological singularity continues, with a focus on robots. Next week,…
Iran chaired, hosted and led the recently rejuvenated Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Teheran, attended by delegates from 120 countries, including 31 heads of state and 29 foreign secretaries of…
In his brilliant essay, 1984 in 2012 Allen Gregg delineates how much Stephen Harper’s Party — for that’s what it is — learned from Orwell. The Harperites, he writes, have…
What the hell were Harper and Baird thinking to cut diplomatic ties with Iran? What does Harper know that the rest of the world does not know? Even Britain is…
Some Ontario hospitals are giving up on trying to control the superbug VRE. No doubt the hospitals a re responding to government funding squeeze on hospitals. Below, infection control experts…
Compania General De Tabacos De Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue, 275 U.S. 87, 100
I’m not sure what is worse news for Republicans, the fact their convention delivered ZIP in the way of bounce for Romney, or what appears to be a marked uptick…
…progblogger with The Progressive Economics Forum, who is running for the leadership of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party. Eric, does Sask. have a provincial Senate? If so, I would be…
