homeschooling history
Wow. A letter to the editor in the Nanaimo Times reminds me why teaching history properly is so important. The letter has been removed but a screen shot of it…
March 2013
Review: Warrior Nation
The idea that the well-funded and aggressively waged campaign by the Harper government, important state institutions like the military, their supposedly-but-not-really independent extensions into the population like the Legion, many…
5796…Canada Is The First Thanks To Harper
The first. Usually a good thing. It takes a Tory to screw a good thing up.Ken Gray from bulldogcanadian.com takes it from here “When a good cause in the world…
it’s pro-choice or no choice: protecting our rights
If you’re in the Mississauga area and you’re interested in hearing this blog live and in person, I’m giving a talk on Tuesday, April 2, sponsored by the Mississauga chapter…
Band of the Month: Fire/Works
Good Friday, readers! Today’s Band of the Month is Montreal’s Fire/Works. Motivated by the marriage of rhythm and ambiance, this French-Canadian progressive folk duo take a unique spin on organic…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – While there’s room to question whether we should accept spending as self-definition in the first place, Zoe Williams is right to make the…
From Corporation to Crisis
The authors tell us this book has been “a long time in the making.” It has been well worth the wait. The dust jacket bears endorsements, fulsome even by the…
Shroud of Turin, the Sequel, Coming to Your TV
In one of his final acts as Pope, Benny “the Rat” Ratzinger, signed off on another television documentary about the Shroud of Turin. We haven’t seen the Shroud for 40-years…
Reflections on CD through five decades
What motivated me to start producing a magazine in the basement of my rented house in Winnipeg in the fall of 1963? I was 27 years old at the time,…
Narch 29: hypocrisy at work……
Some years ago, in Montreal, there was a radio talk show that specialized in hate-mongering, It was pretty vicious stuff all day every day, including Sunday. However, on Sunday it…
Shell’s Arctic Overture Gets Frosty Reception
Shell’s Arctic Challenger drilling rig is supposed to be bound for the northern waters and the oil riches said to lie beneath the sea bed. Instead it is tied up…
And How Did That Work Out For You?
It’s settled now that Iraq’s oil riches pretty much sealed Saddam Hussein’s fate. The Anglo-American conquest of Iraq was heavily an oil-driven decision. And wasn’t it nice of the Americans…
EG Radio March 28: Federal Budget 2013, urbanization in Kenya and the tar sands “staples” trap
Download: earthgauge-podcast-march28-2013.mp3 We love covering local stories on Earthgauge and this week, we get just about as local as we can, focusing on some compelling environmental research taking place at…
“Happy” Good Friday? Seriously?
I don’t want to get all holier-than-thou, but the folks who run around saying “Happy Good Friday!” – and there are some, mainly non-Christians or the historically ignorant – sound,…
The Nanaimo Letter and the On-Going Racism. . .
As I have written here before, and as many others realize, racism against Aboriginal people is one of the only areas where it seems that open bigotry is still accepted…
If the problem is that fewer people are reading you, would your solution be to give fewer people the ability to read you?
The Internet has a culture. It’s too late to change it. Worth a read (and for free, too).
Ooops! Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall Signs Deals With Chinese Telecom That Canada Now Restricts
Reuters Huawei Technologies, the mainland’s largest phone equipment maker, may face additional restrictions selling its products in Canada as the federal government considers new regulations on foreign wireless suppliers it…
Great Old Dog: My Cousin Cathy’s Clifford!
We just had a great four weeks babysitting (catsitting?) Chatouille, our neighbor’s Maine coon cat. She’s gone home now, and I’me feeling a little nostalgic. Having an animal in the…