Men Aquitted For Ordering Gay Drink
Two Cameroon men who were sentenced to five years in prison for “looking gay” after ordering Bailey’s Irish Cream have been acquitted of the charges by an appeals court. The…
January 2013
TED Talk Tuesday
Fascinating! Imagine you’re a shipwrecked sailor adrift in the enormous Pacific. You can choose one of three directions and save yourself and your shipmates — but each choice comes with…
Putting selective “facts” on the splitting table #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale wants to have a “conversation” about the provincial government’s financial mess and the ways we might fix it. That’s what she told CBC’s David Cochrane in her…
OLP Candidates On Wind Tubines
Didn’t like this bit:Kathleen Wynne is uneasy about the quality of information fuelling the renewable energy debate. “Where is the evidence and science in making these decisions?” asks Wynne. “I’m…
But Robots Don’t Buy Bread
The CBS show 60 Minutes ran an item tonight about how robots were displacing humans in America’s work force. The story featured great minds from MIT and elsewhere discussing how…
What’s with Laureen Harper’s stock portfolio selloff? Fiscal Götterdämmerung? Or what?
Laureen Harper tuning up her pipes for the fiscal Götterdämmerung? Canadian political spouses may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: The real Mrs. Harper; the unreal Mr. Harper, long rumoured…
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog…
News from the OLP front
Son One and I are Pupatello delegates to the OLP convention. He’s now worried he’s going to have to give a bunch of speeches. “Only 20 or so,” Lala told…
Did you do that?
While living in Paris during World War II, Picasso suffered harassment from the Gestapo. One officer asked him, upon seeing a photo of Guernica in his apartment, “Did you do…
Cory Booker, a model of personal transformation for gay haters
Cory Booker, the popular mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was a student at Stanford University when in 1992 he published an article in the Stanford Daily that described how he…
Cory Booker, a model of personal transformation for gay haters
Cory Booker, the popular mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was a student at Stanford University when in 1992 he published an article in the Stanford Daily that described how he…
Cory Booker, a model of personal transformation for gay haters
Cory Booker, the popular mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was a student at Stanford University when in 1992 he published an article in the Stanford Daily that described how he…
Cory Booker, a model of personal transformation for gay haters
Cory Booker, the popular mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was a student at Stanford University when in 1992 he published an article in the Stanford Daily that described how he…
Review: Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada
This book is, I think, tailored for use in labour studies courses. The selection of essays on various aspects of political action by Canadian unions and workers would serve very…
The Business of a Cortes Forest
Ray Grigg on the logging of Cortes Island’s old growth forests. “These are the business forces allied against Cortes and the people of Wildstands Alliance who are trying to mitigate…
Review: The Promise of Happiness
One way that some of my longstanding interests have recently become configured is in a desire to think more about how, in concrete and practical terms, our lives are knit…
Respect Costs Nothing
by Nikki Skuce, Senior Energy Campaigner, ForestEthics Advocacy Every time I read the comments section related to a story on First Nations activism, I am saddened by the depth and…