This week twelve climate scientists and energy experts penned a letter to Canada’s Natural Resources (aka “Oil”) Minister, Joe Oliver, to express their concern about his ongoing support for building…
Leaving aside whether Stephen Harper’s previously-undisclosed media monitoring is actually right in substance, Brian Jean isn’t entirely wrong as to why he and other Con MPs are facing it: Conservative…
This is starting to look like a ritual humiliation of a veteran reporter who doesn’t deserve it, at all. Oh, and the “award-winning” guy giving everyone civics lessons? His M.O.…
I still love the Menzingers, but me (and my kids) love these guys the most. The are the best-est. They are godlike geniuses. Buy all of their records, now.
I have written several posts in this blog about institutions and their many shortcomings, shortcomings that seem directly proportional to their age. The longer one exists, the more prone an…
You can be book-smart, but that doesn’t actually mean you are smart.
A: If you’re a regular at this web site, you already know the answer. (Justin Trudeau, are you paying attention? Hope so.)
Here, on how all of Canada could lose out if Christy Clark’s B.C. Liberals are able to follow through on their plans to eliminate the Therapeutics Initiative which has provided…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – George Monbiot writes about the absurdity of the right-wing choice to promote inequality in the name of competition among the wealthy when…
It seems there are two kilometres of pipeline with oil residue in it running through St. John. It’s an Irving line that that went out of use over forty years…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, May 9, 2013: Italian court upholds Berlusconi’s tax evasion conviction Enron’s Jeffrey Skilling: Govt Agrees to Substantial…
I went last night to a wonderful event put on by a grassroots media collective. They wanted to encourage local writers and local activists. There was lots of good conversations.…
Andrew Coyne has an interesting take on the National Research Council’s new mandate. The NRC was originally established to do the kind of research which business could not and should…
Saw this the other day over Twitter … Abortion pill now a reality. Australia sits poised to list RU486 as part of their Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, which will make the…
Quote: “…although the proportion of Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs is on the rise in Canada, the marked demographic trend is the increasing number of people who claim no religious…
Trevor Taylor left politics in 2009 in an unseemly hurry. One minute he was there. Next minute? Gone from cabinet and the House of Assembly. Very odd. Then right on…
We had breakfast in a little cafe (what New Yorkers call a coffee shop, a real working-person’s breakfast spot) in R’s neighbourhood. This was my only opportunity to have a…
The latest census is out and for one reason or another, one of the several numbers upon which media attention has been fixated are the religion figures. This sort of…
He had done a lot of monstrous things, before he woke up one morning and decided to gut the census.For no sane reason.But for me it marked the moment when…
Athabasca University’s isolated headquarters in winter. Below: Athabasca U President Frits Pannekoek and Alberta Advanced Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk. Athabasca University’s Faculty Association called yesterday for the institution’s president to…
