Poirier should hold Gallinger to account for treatment of VON PSWs
Today we’re in Owen Sound to talk to the media about the VON’s treatment of 35 Personal Support Workers. In the scheme of things, 35 part-time PSWs represent a small…
December 2013
Nelson Mandela
For Nelson Mandela, greatness was not the province of a few. For him, every man and woman who walked the earth had the potential to be great. “We ask ourselves,”…
Detached Children With Autism Theory Faces Serious Challenge
Emotional Reactions of children with Autism, Ms Heather Nuske Olga Tennsion Autism Research Centre, Latrobe University For years the autism professional community accepted the non evidence based speculation that autism…
Mandela music
Many moving tributes to Nelson Mandela this morning, and many of them describing how he was their spark: to oppose racism, to oppose oppression, to oppose totalitarianism. I was involved…
Akaash Maharaj: The Summit of Caribbean Parliamentarians
My address to the Summit of Caribbean Parliamentarians in Trinidad: Apartheid gave us some of colonialism’s worst crimes, yet the choice of people of conscience to stand against Apartheid gave…
Oh Canada!
As a Canadian, I am more than embarrassed by my country’s environmental record over the last decade, I’m appalled and angry at the lack of leadership that has lead to…
Bye Bye Nelson Mandela
A true man of peace.
University Enrolment #nlpoli
Just for the sake of looking at some numbers, here are some statistics on university enrolment in Newfoundland and Labrador over the past decade. The figures are from Statistics Canada.…
Nelson Mandela and What That Giant Meant To Me
When I heard the news that Nelson Mandela had died at first I was sad, like billions of people all over the world. For he was my greatest living hero,…
Day One, Post-Mandela
Today is the first day of our world after the Nelson Mandela era. We don’t need to canonize him or consider any messiah characteristics, but we should stop today and…
Who gets muzzled next by unconstitutional Redford Government laws? Environmentalists?
Deputy Premier Thomas Lukaszuk, in motorcycle sidecar, gives the order to go after a pesky trade unionist’s blog. But look out! Alison Redford’s Alberta Thought Police may already have their…
Linda McQuaig’s cognitive dissonance on negative campaigning
The recent byelection in Toronto center – won handily by the Liberals’ Chrystia Freeland in a race against the NDP’s Linda McQuaig – ruffled quite a bit of feathers. Justin…
Nelson Mandela: ‘An international emblem of dignity and forbearance’
Nelson Mandela, in about 1964. Nelson Mandela is the father of modern South Africa, but he belongs to all humanity now, and all of humanity seems ready to embrace him…
CKNW Orphans’ Fund Financial Recap
Based on T3010 reports filed by the charity with Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) CKNW Orphans’ Fund 7 YRS
The clogged sewers of finance and industry
I read a remarkable observation today. Well it’s not really a remarkable observation, it’s an obvious one, one which I’ve been forecasting since 2011, but what’s remarkable about it is…
Engineers poke holes in Enbridge tanker safety plans
A group of professional engineers says the risk of a tanker spill is far greater than Enbridge suggests While the Harper Government reacts to this week’s release of a federal…
Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013
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