Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The following story by Tyee editor David Beers shows the benefit of multiple parties expressing their views on matters of importance. Here the BC Conservatives…
I use my fellow Ottawan’s, Alanis Morrisette’s, loose definition of the word ironic so forgive me grammar freaks if I gets this wrong. This is what I find ironic. According…
A sample of videos you will find in Bush’s Library. This video is a bit uncoordinated but that is the way Bush is. Mission Accomplished:
This and that for your weekend reading. – Helene Leblanc argues that we should make sure the Internet is treated as a commons accessible to all, rather than a privilege…
At times having to watch America’s seemingly endless death spiral becomes utterly depressing. These are crazy people who have somehow been allowed to rise to positions of authority – people…
It finally feels like summer here. The kids and I are spending hours outside. We’ve been out and about on errands a little more than normal this past few days,…
I was asked: “I was wondering how they might work with the Humanities, as I teach Seventeenth-Century Literature, Shakespeare and other related subjects, which require research papers and final examinations.…
I’m writing this part of the blog on the night of May 3. I have just been looking over the CBC story that Irving has been awarded 228 million dollars…
It was 43 years ago today that four students were killed at Kent State University, shot dead by the Ohio National Guard as they protested US military involvement in Cambodia.…
The Bank of Canada, like all central banks, is supposed to be independent from the government. That, as the Globe & Mail put it this morning, is sacrosanct. When a…
Many of us who blog, tweet, or post political views on Facebook cannot, I suspect, avoid the periodic and unsettling notion that we are simply ‘preaching to the converted’ instead…
Michael Harris writes that Stephen Harper is the Wizard of Wrath: Just as in the movie, our Wizard is playing the bully with the big stick to the very end.…
Being “positive” and not “negative” was an interesting theory. It’s a theory that doesn’t ever really work, however. Justin Trudeau, take note.
Another of the Acts that direct municipal governance is the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act. While considerably shorter than the previously-discussed Municipal Act – eight pages, 15 sections and less…
Amazing!
Well he's been called a lot of names.And I've called him a few myself eh?But I've never heard anyone call Great Ugly Leader the Wizard of Wrath. Just as in…
The images are shocking and disturbing.Just like the real thing.But can an anti-bullying video be too shocking?You be the judge…Read more »
In the fight against global climate change, we are currently approaching the endgame. The time for compromise has come and gone. A certain temperature increase is inevitable — already “locked…
Canadian diplomats, as seen in the public’s imagination and doubtless as they will soon be portrayed by the Harper Government. Actual Canadian diplomats abroad do not appear quite as illustrated,…
