Nothing Convinces Quite Like a Taste of the Lash
The onset of extreme weather events is rapidly culling the ranks of climate change skeptics. Megastorms, droughts, heat waves and floods are prevailing as science never could, especially in the…
2012
Gary Braasch Photos: The Shrinking of India’s Precious Gangotri Glacier
Photography is a key tool used by scientists to monitor and analyze the physical effects of climate change on the planet. More than that, images are an essential tool for…
Twitter’s testimony about Todd
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Todd Bentley’s infamous remarks saying that the death of British MP Malcolm Wicks was “the Lord’s justice” were, as noted in…
CIJA On Designated Countries Of Origon
In response to Kenney’s list, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs remains relatively mush-mouthed, but notes the following points of concern: However, we believe there are two key deficiencies…
Saturday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – Susan Delacourt writes that laughable conspiracy theories look to be the Cons’ stock in trade as they fight against any accountability for electoral…
With Some Ambivalence
In light of the unspeakable tragedy in Connecticut yesterday, in some ways it seems manifestly disrespectful to write a regular blog post today. Yet, to become paralyzed with despair over…
Shooting at a Place of Education
The mass shooting in Connecticut was tragic, and it’s amplified by instantaneous news making irresponsible reports, misidentifying accused suspects, and encouraging copy-cats by propelling the shooter to world-wide notoriety instead…
Sometimes They’re Are No Words
But the American columnist E.J. Dionne has found some that adequately describe the situation: We have had enough. American politics is plagued by timidity and paralyzed by opportunism whenever we…
rtod: children in pakistan are as important as children in connecticut
We’ve endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years. And each time I learn the news, I react not as a president, but as anybody else would…
The Slaughtered Children and the Gun Nutz
I'm sure you know how I feel about guns and gun violence. And how I feel about those who hurt children.So you can imagine how I feel about this horror.A…
BC Liberals’ startling success
Many commentators claim BC Liberals are incompetent and ineffective. While true in ministries such as Justice and Children and Family Development, Liberals have been successful in the centerpiece of their…
Just another day in America
NEWTOWN, Conn. — As gunshots echoed through an elementary school in Connecticut on Friday, children huddled in the corners and closets where desperate teachers had tried to hide them from…
Who Is Responsible For Connecticut?
You are. We’re all responsible for Connecticut. All the causes that led up to the tragedy yesterday were known before from other horrible events but we did nothing to prevent…
Time to move on from old Alberta Health Services expense claims? Not just yet, thanks, says Allaudin Merali
Will the wheels fall off the Alberta Health Services case for not paying severance to former CFO Allaudin Merali? At any rate, it sounds as if Mr. Merali, in blurry…
The Essence of Innocence…Why Good People Become Targets
December 14, 2012, While many of you were busy spending money on Christmas gifts or at work like myself, a young man, armed with an arsenal of weapons and his…
Mad King Harper and the Flying Circus
Well mad King Harper, he of the reverse Midas touch, may still covet his golden toy, as it slowly turns into a steaming cow pie.I want it. I MUST have…
Connecticut
The killings in Connecticut affected me deeply. And considering it I realize why. First, I am friends with a colleague who was directly affected. Her grief and that of her…
Canada’s new refugee system unfair to refugees
by Canadian Council for Refugees AND Amnesty International Canada: On the eve of the introduction of important changes to Canada’s refugee determination system, the Canadian Council for Refugees and Amnesty…
Musical interlude
Tragically Hip – Little Bones