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April 2013
Chris Hedges Takes Down Intellectual America – Iggy’s On His List Too
To Chris Hedges, America’s intelligentsia are a pack of sell-outs who showed their true colours when they lined up to support George w. Bush’s war on Iraq. And Hedges is…
Online TV gains on traditional providers by Steve Ladurantaye
Columnist says firms such as BCE and Rogers are still adding to their subscriber bases, but the rate of growth has slowed dramatically.
To Be or Not To Be
What Shakespeare was talking about in the famous soliloquy from “Hamlet” was not all about whether it’s better to end your life or to continue to endure pain and heartbreak.…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, April 2, 2013: Parental estrangement: A ‘silent epidemic’ of cut-off kids Ontario court recognizes “light” as a…
On impending failures
Lest anybody see the high-profile Atlanta example of standardized testing fraud as an isolated incident, Valerie Strauss writes about how Sask Party-style mandatory testing has produced similar problems across the…
Earth Rangers Wants You to Bring Back the Wild
Earth Rangers is a conservation organization focused on getting kids engaged in protecting and learning about the environment. They have a program currently focused on having kids actively engage in…
Oil Spills Create Jobs
I’m severely disappointed in the lack of vision that conservatives have regarding our economy. Faced with information that burning a lot of fossil fuel is not able to be sustained…
Proud father update
I have more than 5,000 Facebook “friends.” Except, as you might expect, they’re not all friends. Some are Facebook fiends. Because Facebook comments are unmoderated, stupid things sometimes happen on…
Dear Toronto politicians
If you impose tolls and yet more taxes to pay for this Metrolinx thing, you’re all dead men (and women) walking. Make better use of the tax dollars we already…
How to outrage four kinds of nerds with one image
I think we may have discovered a new sport. (via Humor Train.) Alltop cannot be offended by humor, unless you make fun of Power Rangers. Then it’s gloves off!
Ethical Oil–Still Dead?
Back in December 2012, former Executive Director of the Ethical Oil Institute Jamie Ellerton wrote:I remain with Ethical Oil as the part-time spokesperson. Stay tuned for what’s to come in…
Marxism and Religion: Part 1
This is really a thumbnail sketch of trying to wrap my head around a Marxist approach to religion. This really comes out of the experience, evolving from the approach pioneered…
Marxism and Religion: Part 1
This is really a thumbnail sketch of trying to wrap my head around a Marxist approach to religion. This really comes out of the experience, evolving from the approach pioneered…
Marxism and Religion: Part 1
This is really a thumbnail sketch of trying to wrap my head around a Marxist approach to religion. This really comes out of the experience, evolving from the approach pioneered…
Marxism and Religion: Part 1
This is really a thumbnail sketch of trying to wrap my head around a Marxist approach to religion. This really comes out of the experience, evolving from the approach pioneered…
Building A School In The Cloud
It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust, and here’s another paradigm-shifting presentation. As an educator Sugata Mitra’s presentation is thrilling, because I know firsthand that the current education system is outdated…
The Road Not Taken #nlpoli
The number is a hard one to wrap your mind around. $15.6 billion. That’s the amount of oil royalties and mining royalties the provincial government collected from 2005 to 2012.…
Reflecting on Ralph Klein
On the far-right CBC Rex Murphy program the other day, Rex was inviting Canadians to call in and join in on his hagiographical paean to his idol. He bagged a…
Stephen Harper and the Con Pit Bulls
When you stare at the public face of Stephen Harper's sinister Con regime, what you see is horrifying enough.A tired, morally corrupt regime, that is willing to lie, muzzle people,…