It is a postage stamp for a nation that exists somewhere between memory’s twilight, international conflict and the aurora of hope. Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar has designed a postage stamp…
Dennis is an old friend of mine. He is asking for support for his son Xander who will be walking 5 km this year in the CN Cycle for CHEO.…
Monday’s election results in Alberta demonstrate once again the strange outcomes that our First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) voting system can create. A difference in vote percentage between 43% and 34% leads to…
Monday’s election results in Alberta demonstrate once again the strange outcomes that our First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) voting system can create. A difference in vote percentage between 43% and 34% leads to…
Responses to interview questions posed by Kevin Charles Redmon, Independent Journalist and Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism 1. Are MOOCs an idea that were floating around the halls of universities…
The Ontario PCs are voting for one. The Ontario NDs keep issuing ransom note demands, and hold rallies to call for an election. Ontario doesn’t want or need an election.…
Bet someone wishes they could insert a “not” into this one…“Bev Oda’s Savoy Hotel Stay: International Aid Minister Declines 5-Star Hotel For Another At Twice The Cost.” Austerity for thee…
So, it’s another Movie Monday today and I know I say this every time…but this is the best one yet! Our friend William Mathews from www.digitalfootprint.ca has outdone himself on…
Not to be confused with the movie, the book version of The Fellowship of the Ring includes several scenes with the mysterious, and quite possibly brain damaged, Tom Bombadil. On…
…yet simultaneously disgusting. I hope Albertans are not covered by a similar storm of the narrow-minded insularism, negativism and cynicism exemplified by the Wildrose Party. And yes, I can make…
Sex, Oil, and Videotape, Ted Genoways, Mother Jones “…Almost every day for more than a year, this had been Bolenbaugh’s daily activity—shooting video of the slow-going cleanup of one of…
Left-wing media bias? Doesn’t look like it… From The Sixth Estate, “how guest space gets allocated on the op-ed pages of the nation’s major newspapers”: 1. Business associations, consultants, and…
This extraordinary mild winter in North America, followed by an unprecedentedly warm march, has shocked a lot of people who formerly dismissed the reality of climate change. In addition, several…
At my new job, I phone people. Don’t you think that’s ironic? I’m phonophobic, yet somehow I ended up with a job that involves phoning taxpayers all over the world…
In a news release, the Buddhist Society says Oplanich then violated its tranquility “through bullying, intimidation and threats.” As well as directly criticizing the Buddhist faith, threatening to call the…
In the politics of Alberta, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg vision has been bastardized to become “government of business, by business, for business.” In the April 23 election, voters can re-elect a…
Television viewers in Hamilton, Ontario last week found their breakfast interrupted (enhanced?) by nearly three minutes of “eye-popping hardcore gay pornography.” The mihap, which happened around 9:30 a.m. Friday during…
“When you wage an ideological war,” wrote Lana Payne this past weekend, “lies are necessary weapons.” Payne, for those who don’t know, is president of the province’s labour federation and…
I spent a really quiet Earth Day. Paying homage to the sun, using as little energy as possible, and wishing I was in Montreal. Read more »
One week has past since a challenger accused my Media Bias project, which clearly demonstrates that the notion of the Canadian media being “leftist” or even “centrist” is a myth,…
