Omnibus Scandalbus
Recently Canadians have begun to take notice of the Harper Conservatives' tactic of piling dozens or hundreds of pieces of legislation into one supersized bill, so that most of what…
2012
Omnibus Scandalbus
Recently Canadians have begun to take notice of the Harper Conservatives’ tactic of piling dozens or hundreds of pieces of legislation into one supersized bill, so that most of what…
Omnibus Scandalbus
Recently Canadians have begun to take notice of the Harper Conservatives' tactic of piling dozens or hundreds of pieces of legislation into one supersized bill, so that most of what…
Omnibus Scandalbus
Recently Canadians have begun to take notice of the Harper Conservatives’ tactic of piling dozens or hundreds of pieces of legislation into one supersized bill, so that most of what…
Chapter IV: A New Hope
Now that Team Coyne’s campaign for the Liberal leadership has come out into the light, one wonders if we can convince Parliamentary process expert, ace thumb-typer, tireless CBC news minx…
My father taught me so much
and I’m passing it all on to my kids in just this way.Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Media Helps Sell The Myth Of “Job Killing Regulations”
unemployment-numbers.jpg Repeat something often enough, and it becomes true. That phrase has been a common theme among think tanks and politicians for decades. And sadly, there is a lot of…
Pathologies revealed
Paul Wells is right to point out the parallels between the McGuinty Libs’ environmentally-destructive, all-or-nothing omnibus bill and the similar legislation being rammed through Parliament by the Harper Cons. But…
My Letter To My Tory M.P.
As mentioned in my previous post, the Harper Conservatives are starting to receive ‘blowback’ as a result of their heavy-handed and undemocratic push of Bill C-38, their budget omnibus bill.…
Is it worth it?
Sometimes writing seems like a lonely, pointless, and possibly self-destructive activity. I mean, I COULD be doing other things with my time. Then you get a review like this, and…
Racists, Skinheads And White Supremacists Praise The Conservative’s Anti-Human Rights Law
(Neo-nazi white supremacists in Calgary love the Conservative private member’s Bill) “A Conservative private members’ bill that repeals part of Canada’s hate speech laws has passed the House of Commons…
Connectivism as Epistemology
Responding to questions from Vance McPherson 1) What is your response to Rita Kop’s suggestion that connectivism is a new epistemology but not a new learning theory? As I understand…
Happy Fathers’ Day
Regardless of whether a retro-Dad (as right) or a crushingly progressive radical, to all Fathers everywhere — Happy Fathers’ Day!!!
Father’s Day
When I think of my dad these days, what comes to mind is, oddly enough, my leg. Specifically it’s the back of my right calf. It’s balding. Again I’m reminded…
Alarmed
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Some words for Lorraine, via Peter Cashin #nlpoli
Lorraine Michael should bear in mind that some very famous Newfoundland and Labrador politicians found themselves accused of defaming someone. That’s really the essence of the current question of privilege…
Gordon Lightfoot…
… was pretty good considering his age and his rigourous tour schedule! His voice, while still unmistakably “Lightfoot”, has gone a little gratey on the high notes and the power…
Iqaluit
Nanuq It’s not terribly warm in Iqaluit. The snow is gone from the City, and the roads are the customary summer dust, but the wind is still chill. Frobisher Bay…
This is NOT Democracy
The Opposition pushback over Bill C-38 — driven in part by the Green Party caucus of one, Elizabeth May — is about far more than political partisanship. It’s about whether…
Daniel Berrigan
A week ago, Chris Hedges wrote that he had encountered Daniel Berrigan, now 92, in New York City’s Zucotti Park — the place where the Occupy Wall Street protesters encamped…