Guest Post: Applying For Social Security Benefits for Your Loved One and For Yourself
If you provide ongoing care for a disabled individual, then you may need to be the one who applies for benefits on his or her behalf. There are additionally some…
July 2013
What Young People Are Teaching Us About Empathy
Click the chart to see more inspiring charts! Descending/increasing lines indicate less/more concern among different generations of high school graduates for the various ideas. I have so much hope for…
Jeremy Scahill at Socialism 2013: free press under threat, al-Awlaki, dirty wars
Jeremy Scahill is National Security Correspondent for The Nation magazine and author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. His most recent book Dirty Wars: The…
Techvibes: Big Telecom raising its prices to spite the CRTC
We’re asking you: Are Big Telecom unnecessarily raising their monthly price plans in order to spite the CRTC’s new Code of Conduct? Article by Knowlton Thomas for Techvibes: Canadian consumers…
How Much Do We Really Pay For Those Bargains?
There is a segment in the documentary, The Corporation, where Michael Walker of The Fraser Institute extols how corporations help developing nations by using their labour to make their products.…
A bunker-style session
Colin Freeze has a piece in the Globe and Mail reporting on an unprecedented session of the Supreme Court of Canada scheduled to take place on Oct. 11th of this…
The Royal Whatsit: Much ado about nothing
Chances are you are at least dimly aware that William the Nearly Bald, future King of England and (sigh) Canada, successfully knocked up his wife, the comely Kate Middleton. The…
Conservatives ignoring housing, food security needs in Canada’s North
Stephen Harper and the Conservatives are making the cost of living unsustainable for families in Canada’s North, according to Yvonne Jones, the Liberal MP for Newfoundland and Labrador. The post…
Street Food: What’s the Big Deal?
Montreal has its first street food trucks this summer at various sites around the city There’s been a lot of comment, most of it favourable, about the 27 trucks that…
The Duffy Deal: The PMO-Duffy Email and the Mounties
Hot on the trail of the Email The Mounties are as iconic Canadian as you can find. The Mounties always getting their man is so much part of the Canadian…
The Enemies List
Canadians barely lifted an eyebrow in surprise when it was revealed that our Prime Minister had an “enemies list” compiled as a warning to newly-minted cabinet ministers laying out who…
6257…Vive La Belle Province
Not the resto; the actual province. I am sure that someway, somehow, Pauline Marois and the Parti Quebecois will blame this on the English but… Here is the story, direct…
Quit with the radical weather watches
I hope I live to be proven right but we’ve been under various radical weather warnings for the last two weeks and none of it has actually ever transpired. Today’s…
The Evolution of Denial
The shortcoming of denial is that it tends to be indiscriminate — so we deny things we should confront. Denial is also a much better coping strategy for an individual…
Harper’s Auto-Generated Enemies Lists
If you’re Stephen Harper you can assume that what you consider “enemies” would include pretty much the entire membership of organizations such as the Council of Canadians. So why would…
A Ralph of Many Trades and a Master of At Least One
Federal political candidates register their occupations with Elections Canada. I was recently looking through some election results and noticed that my old friend, Ralph Goodale, has had quite a varied…
Nelson Mandela: The Greatest leader the world ever knew
South Africans are celebrating Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday. I believe that Nelson Mandela is the greatest leader, he dismantled the apartheid in South Africa. I put him above any King,…
Revenge of the Blackfish
A documentary, Blackfish, opening today at the Toronto International Film Festival focuses on what marine “parks” around the world, like the GTA’s MarineLand, are inflicting on their captive orcas and…
OECD Findings on Employment Protection and Jobs Performance
Further to my earlier post on the OECD’s new data on employment performance across its 34 member countries (and Canada’s relatively poor ranking in that regard), another part of the…
Finishing up at the University of Virginia
Next week will be my last interning in the office of Community Relations at the University of Virginia. My major project has been working to update the directory that will…