Thoughts on the Throne Speech: Part Two
After a bit of time, here’s the second post covering the recent Throne Speech. I think we should be able to get everything into this second post, so let’s get…
October 2013
Thoughts on the Throne Speech: Part Two
After a bit of time, here's the second post covering the recent Throne Speech. I think we should be able to get everything into this second post, so let's get…
Thoughts on the Throne Speech: Part Two
After a bit of time, here’s the second post covering the recent Throne Speech. I think we should be able to get everything into this second post, so let’s get…
Campaign Diary Volume 18: It’s election day today, it’s important; please make sure you vote!
Today’s St. Albert voting locations. Today is election day in St. Albert, and it’s hard to imagine a more important election for our community in recent years. The intervention by…
Don Maroc Has A Message For North Cowichan Mayor Jon Lefebure About The Somenos Marsh
Don Maroc Cowichan Conversations Contributor North Cowichan Mayor Jon Lefebure joined a couple of hundred constituents lining the hard-packed soil of the Dike that Jon Built along Beverly Street. The…
Sunday night blues. Sir Douglas pays tribute to Louis Reil.
Sometimes it takes a Texan to tell us who the real Canadian heroes are.
OpenMedia McGill: Why Privacy Matters
OpenMedia’s McGill Student Group is speaking out for our privacy. Thanks for writing this great piece, Max Honigmann! Article by Max Honigmann: As online life becomes more and more a…
OpenMedia’s Reilly Yeo and Steve Anderson’s Op-Ed in print!
We’re excited to see this in print! Check out the op-ed written by our own Reilly Yeo and Steve Anderson in the Ottawa Citizen as they discuss the new frontier…
Grand Chief: Unite in face of Elsipogtog, Harper’s ‘War on Mother Earth’
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip called for unity in the face of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s “War on Mother Earth” at a Vancouver rally this past Friday – connected to…
The Staple Theory @ 50: Marc Lee
As part of our continuing series of commentaries celebrating the 50th anniversary of Mel Watkins’ classic article, “A Staple Theory of Economic Growth,” we present the following commentary by Marc…
Anti-Abortion Banner Backfire
Why the tactics of the current anti-abortionists are making me pro-choice. Abortion has and always will be a sensitive topic and rightly so. How can we properly define something that…
The Developer Witch Hunt Proceeds
Wow … if you are considering voting for a candidate who is being backed by the Developers in this city, ask yourself if this is the kind of backroom politics…
What Might A Finch Subway Look Like?
Rob Ford says he wants to replace the in-flight project to build the Finch Ave West LRT with a subway. No details of any plan have been released. What could…
Elsipogtog community meets over fracking protest
Members of the Elsipogtog Nation and RCMP clash at a recent protest over fracking in New Brunswick REXTON, N.B. – Hundreds of people gathered at a community hall in New…
Connective Knowledge and Open Resources
The following is a set of responses to interview questions I answered over the weekend. 1. Chinese readers firstly know you and George Siemens by the theory “connectivism”. How did…
Lively Pushes “No Rainbow For Queer People” Strategy in Moscow
Scott Lively wants to take away LGBT Russians’ rainbow. Lively, the self-described “human rights consultant” who gladly takes credit for lobbying Russia, Uganda and others to ramp up their anti-LGBT…
Federal party fortunes put to the test in four federal byelections called for November 25th
Federal byelections will be held in four vacant ridings on November 25th, 2013: my own riding of Toronto Centre (my very first byelection as a voter!), as well as Bourassa…
Study: Koch Brothers Could Make $100 Billion if Keystone XL Pipeline Approved
A new study released today concludes that Koch Industries and its subsidiaries stand to make as much as $100 billion in profits if the controversial Keystone XL pipeline is granted…
Is anybody actually in favour of fracking?
So the meme was building yesterday was about what a huge mistake it was for the #elsipogtog protesters to have seized media cars and equipment and thus turned the media…
By-elections
The Prime Minister has announced that the 4 by-elections will be held on Monday, November 25th. The Liberal Party of Canada has 4 great candidates ready to do the hard…