Happy birthday, Samuel Beckett!
Samuel Beckett, line drawing by Guillermo Contreras The brilliant Irish playwright, novelist and poet would have been 106, today. Known widely for his absurdist plays and novels, Beckett received the…
2012
Premier Photo Op: Your rich friends mislead
Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators, Nick Hanauer, Bloomberg Businessweek “I’m a very rich person. As an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, I’ve started or helped get off…
F-35 costs rise $1.25 billion, MacKay forgets to add GST
Peter MacKay maintains he’s acted “always withan eye to providing the men and women in uniform with the best equipment that we can possibly get.”
no knockout punches as candidates give it 110% in alberta’s leaders’ debate.
Four of the main party leaders at last night's televised debate. After watching last night’s televised Leaders’ Debate, I am left wondering whether it will even have an effect on…
#abdb8 barely touched what may be Alberta’s most important issue
I’m pretty disappointed. For a province that relies on energy for revenue: I heard a lot about surpluses and very little about revenue. I heard even less about the elevated…
a little shameless promotion…
The school I teach at has a terrific film program with an outstanding teacher, Mr. Jonathan Friedrichs. Each year they make films and send them off to contests. They have…
Goofy again!
Our dog Chillou is feeling a lot better these days!
Saskatchewan Stories of the Day
I’m attempting another dictation post, so we’ll see how that goes. There’s quite a few things to talk about ranging from continued discrepancies over the F 35 procurement, to provincial…
Allow Me
Allow me to be quite blunt, and please forgive my language. mevanoff, either sober up and dry out or shut up. Do you even realise how sad it is that…
Town of Perth, Ontario moves to conserve downtown’s beautiful buildings
Perth Town Council has taken the bold, even if obviously necessary, step of creating a formal Downtown Heritage Conservation District. It comes in the form of a by-law which outlines…
CBC: Should we use gender-neutral pronouns instead of ‘he’ and ‘she’?
CBC is asking the question, “Should we use gender-neutral pronouns instead of ‘he’ and ‘she’?“ Citing Sweden’s addition of a gender-neutral pronoun to the National Encyclopedia and a news story…
Winnipeg Web of Angels
It’s taken me all week to recover from my week of travels, and I’m off again tomorrow. Winnipeg was a whirl of media, a live TV interview early morning, and…
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INTERNATIONAL LABOUR/ANARCHOSYNDICALISM: LATEST SPANISH GENERAL STRIKE A HUGE SUCCESS: March 29th saw a one day general strike in Spain that eclipsed previous general strikes in magnitude if one is to…
Muslim woman holds up bra and everybody gets offended all of a sudden in Canada
Are you kidding me! I can’t stand people who get offended over some minor shit, or even over nothing. Oh you looked at my woman, now die, or you stepped…
Review: Science Fiction and Empire
I’m deep in end-of-term mode at the moment, with one big paper and a few smaller things to finish before it’s done, and then book edits to deal with immediately…
Do you know why you are requested to raise your right hand when taking an oath?
In ancient times people born in slavery were branded on the palm of the right hand and were not entitled to the privilege of taking an oath. The right hand…
Alberta Debate Live Blog
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