The Extradition Case of Dr. Hassan Diab
Hassan Diab is a mild-mannered Ottawa university professor with a passion for history and culinary skills that surely the French would appreciate. In fact, the French government has invested much…
October 2013
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joseph Stiglitz reminds us that inequality isn’t an inevitability, but a choice favoured (and lobbied for) by the few who want to…
Debunking the fat cat myth: fed real wages stagnant over the last decade
Oh those fat cat public sector workers. Last week we wrote about the ongoing campaign by right-wing organizations to portray the public sector as lazy, overpaid, and pampered. The problem…
Fontaine And Farber On First Nations Genocide
Our conviction is that Canadian policy over more than 100 years can be defined as a genocide of First Nations under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention. Read it all if…
“The shape of things to come.”
One of the worst forecasts we ever saw was a Canadian-made, low budget science-fiction movie released in 1979. It was loosely based on H.G. Wells’ book by the same name.…
Toronto needs a mayor: will this be a very bad week for Rob Ford?
Right now, lawyers are crowding into a Toronto courtroom for a fairly extraordinary hearing. They are there to gain access to a nearly-500-page police ITO (Information To Obtain) that led…
Notes from Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training ITHET 2013, Antalya
A New Strategy for Higher Education and TrainingShirley Alexander Some intro stuff about the buildings being built for the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). – leads to questions about designing…
Much Is At Stake
After tomorrow’s throne speech, the opposition parties have vowed to hammer the Harper Conservatives. But will they keep the Harperites in their sights, or battle each other? Tim Harper writes…
Not For The Faint Of Heart
Be careful who you open the door to this Halloween: H/t The Toronto Star Recommend this Post
Interview: Texan Julia Trigg Crawford’s Valiant Effort to Stop TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline
Julia Trigg Crawford is one of a handful of Texas property owners waging a fierce battle against the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline. Her fight began in August 2011, when she…
Buddhist protestor
Of course, the very idea of a protestor kinda violates the 8-fold path a bit. Alltop is dharma. Cartoon by the suffering SMBC.
How not to promote immigration #nlpoli
The provincial Conservatives currently running the place have finally discovered what pretty well everyone else in government knew 20 years ago. The population is getting older, on average. That’s not…
My opportunity to say thanks
A few educators are on the list of unforgettable characters encountered in my youth but none stand ahead of Frank Gumley, my home room teacher in grades eight and nine.…
Things we know, or should know
Many readers will be familiar with content of the following piece that I uncovered while doing computer file maintenance. It’s worth remembering. Robert Fulghum grew up in Texas, worked as…
Thanksgiving in Harperland:The Sorrow and the Hope
It still takes my breath away. This country so big and so beautiful. And on this Thanksgiving Day, even in Harperland, I have so many reasons to be thankful.A roof…
Message from the planet
Attention human inhabitants. I am shutting down. You have 48 hours to evacuate. Thank you. Prompted by this http://digitalnomad.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/11/regarding-the-government-shutdown-of-our-national-parks/ article in National Geographic. Filed under: art Tagged: earth, planet, shut…
For Thanksgiving: Lots of Conservative Turkey
How much do we really have to be thankful for in the federal government’s recent spate of policy announcements? All the good news is getting hard to digest. A last…
In Tuesday’s Sun: he ain’t Jack
Poking through the electoral entrails, looking for the federal angle, editorialists and opinion-opiners always assign far too much importance to (a) byelections, and (b) provincial elections. It’s ill-advised, because (a)…