The Canadian Transport Safety Board has announced that the crude oil that killed 47 people in Lac Megantic was NOT properly classified. It had been listed to authorities as a…
Janet Davidson The Redford government just passed an Order in Council appointing Janet Davidson Deputy Minister of Health. This decision has many implications, not the least of which is this:…
First, though, let me pass on a web site which was sent to me by a reader. It’s a superb interview on the decay and collapse of journalism. It’s by…
“The notion of students as change agents is a relatively new concpt.” — Malcom Ryan Rachel Winston How we can shape the development of a new culture of learning by…
His parting speech “middle finger”. You can’t say that he is not steadfast. “On primary day, Weiner got into an argument with a woman in Harlem who ridiculed him and…
There’s an orthodoxy among Canada’s political parties that policy must not be disclosed until on the advent of a general election – if then. Election campaigns, however, are really awful…
Attention, all you democrats, mark it on your calendars: the International Day of Democracy, Sunday, September 15th—as declared by the UN General Assembly in 2007 with resolution 62/7. Following the…
Forty years ago today, a US-backed coup d’état in Chile would have much greater ramifications for the world than the terrorist attacks of a decade ago. General Pinochet not only…
Teddy here with a few things to mention. First, I’ve decided to stop introducing myself at the top of each post I do; I think you guys are familiar with…
I’m a big proponent of open riding nominations. During the Liberal leadership race, I was proud when my candidate released an extensive party reform proposal including an open nomination process,…
Here are today’s news links: Michael Geist and Jesse Brown Take Questions about the TPP (Macleans) Officials misused US surveillance program (Associated Press) NSA illegally searched 15,000 suspects’ phone records,…
From reading these 5 things (would & wouldn’t) it is obvious who is targeted. Would 1. Bar public sector employees — including everyone from civil servants to teachers, provincial court…
Laurence O’Donnell offers a vital history lesson on the United States’ use of napalm: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy H/t The Raw Story…
There’s a Steven Weinberg quote that my atheist friends like to trot out (and I’m likely equally guilty of sharing). With or without it you would have good people doing…
The movement that erupted in chile in 2011 has maintained its strength into the 2013 academic year, and now the student leaders hold some decisive cards. In the last few…
In high school we parodied For Whom the Bell Tolls relentlessly: “Que va, what a cafeteria lunch that is.” “Truly, it is a cafeteria lunch.” “That is a cafeteria lunch…
An ultra-Orthodox man performs a Jewish ritual called Kaparot in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem on Sept. 10. In the ancient custom of Kaparot, still performed by some Jews…
Unfortunately the following note to readers from today’s release of the third and final set of data from the National Household Survey by Statistics Canada speaks for itself: Note to…
Fukushima’s crippled Reactor 4, which contains 1,500 precariously-perched, radioactive fuel rods Addiction experts say the first step toward recovery is recognizing you have a problem. In that sense, perhaps we’re…
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