Harper Government is obsessed with Hitler
I wonder why? Guilty conscience? If they have any? Now it was John Baird’s turn. Read the story in The Huffington Post
2012
James K. Galbraith: Inequality and Instability
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Nurses Grieve Too
An underexplored or ignored aspect of nursing professional life: how nurses working in a Labour and Delivery unit grieve over the loss of their patients, and how this grief affects…
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On Feminism
I am proud to call myself a feminist. I take it as a first principle needing no further derivation that all people deserve equality of freedom and opportunity, and that…
Crack Report, Part 2: Calgary Herald and Cardus Say Alberta PC Party is “Stalinist”
The right in this country is becoming unhinged over something. Harper called the NDP pro-Hitler, which would be passing strange even in American politics. Last week an Ontario business leader…
Wildlife flourishes in human dead zones
We all know what the big problem with planet Earth is—people. Homo sapiens. The most destructive of species. Ever since we walked out of Africa 70,000 years ago, we have…
April 28: The columnists
We can spare time to talk about newspaper columns today because there’s almost nothing in the day’s Moncton Times and Tribune worth reading – except for the columns by Bill…
The normalcy of abnormal
After the anger I felt yesterday, I have been thinking. Is it not strange that we equate today’s “wars” with real wars of the past? How has this happened? I…
Good reporting
A great report by Postmedia of that chronicling style that lets the facts speak for themselves: “Three days from Alberta vote, cracks in Wildrose were showing.” It really stands out…
Planning ahead
We’ve got: 1. One daughter, ranked competitive swimmer 2. One son, GTHL “A” forward 3. One son, GTHL “A” goalie 4. One son, snowboarder, swimmer and lacrosse nut I’ve decided…
EbertFest Dispatch #4: It’s Not You, It’s Me
I was very much looking forward to seeing 'A Separation' last night. From everything I had heard, it was a moving and emotionally complex film experience that even its competitors…
EbertFest Dispatch #4: It’s Not You, It’s Me
I was very much looking forward to seeing ‘A Separation’ last night. From everything I had heard, it was a moving and emotionally complex film experience that even its competitors…
EbertFest Dispatch #4: It’s Not You, It’s Me
I was very much looking forward to seeing 'A Separation' last night. From everything I had heard, it was a moving and emotionally complex film experience that even its competitors…
EbertFest Dispatch #4: It’s Not You, It’s Me
I was very much looking forward to seeing ‘A Separation’ last night. From everything I had heard, it was a moving and emotionally complex film experience that even its competitors…
Another U.S politician involved in sexual scandal
What is with these politicians? Especially with these Weiner guys. First it was Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York who had to resign and now Michael Weiner of New Mexico…
Arrested for jogging while brown
The news story doesn’t mention the racial angle at all. So I guess Windsor police and prosecutors think its OK to arrest people for jogging while brown: As he was…
In Praise of NDP PR Jiu-Jitsu
Paul Wells on how it’s best sometimes to simply shut up and let your opponent’s own negative momentum take them down: Harper is certain to keep portraying the NDP as…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Paul Krugman writes a long-overdue obituary for the confidence fairy who was supposed to turn needless austerity into growth contrary to all economic…
More Troubling News On The Police Front
I have the feeling that if I had both the time and the narrowness of purpose, I could devote this blog entirely to police and their abuse of authority and…