All for Nought
It’s kind of a riddle: there are 5 essential learning components in the course. A student did two with an average of 68, but stopped working and hasn’t handed in…
2013
Our Democracy on Life Support
This week, Elizabeth May, member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands and Leader of the Green Party of Canada, is in Warsaw, Poland, attending the 19th Conference of the Parties to…
On Designer Vaginas and Media Influence
Labiaplasty is on the rise. Who knew? There’s an article in the Guardian in which Daisy Buchanan argues that we can’t blame porn for this rush towards plastic surgery to…
Harper Government, CSIS spying on Enbridge critics
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip is one Enbridge critic whose activities are being followed by CSIS (Damien Gillis) Read this Nov. 19 story from The Vancouver Observer on the spying of…
Breaking: The Ford Nation is Dead !!!!
Well at least on Sun TV. Less than 24 hours after its debut on Monday night, the conservative cable news channel axed Ford Nation, its highly touted TV talk show…
Kory Teneycke Talks Ford Nation Cancellation: The Secret Draft Statement
The verdict is in! Ford Nation the show sucked monkeys! Kory Teneycke has made an official public statement, but I have been given a secret recording, which I believe to…
Never Heard Of FATCA? You Should
Until recently, I had never heard of FATCA, in fact it was a program on CBC that brought it to my attention. FATCA is seriously troubling for Canadians. In theory,…
New exploration
I’ve been examining the financial elements of legal gambling in British Columbia. Before looking at BCLC annual reports, I assumed the agency’s revenues had grown steadily. In fact, they show…
JFK After 50 Years: Berlin to Dallas, Cold War to Camelot
Those of us, of a certain age, or so the story goes, can remember exactly where we were and what we were doing on 23rd of November, 1963, when we…
MY GIVING MOMENT – A New Canadian Action Plan
It was several years ago in London when I first met Canada’s Governor General David Johnston and his wife Sharon. My husband Jim is retired now after 37 years in…
Ottawa Tells Ford – "Go"
I don’t believe in the Tooth Fairy and I don’t believe Jason Kenney would speak out on Rob Ford without the boss’s approval. One day after the Ontario Progressive Conservatives…
Ford Nation cancelled
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Exposing Rob Ford
This, I’m sure, will become a daily post – there are so many lies and half-truths that it’s hard to keep track. But since Rob and Doug Ford seem to…
The Logic behind Mass Spying: Empire and Cyber Imperialism
Revelations about the long-term global, intrusive spying by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other allied intelligence apparatuses have provoked widespread protests and indignation and threatened ties between erstwhile…
Doing it by the numbers
The first thing I learned – well, not the first but up there, for sure – is that volume measurements are for amateurs. Being an amateur (and expecting to be…
What If
….everything you thought you knew about our democracy was an illusion? The following video, made before the last U.S. election and directed toward an American audience, will doubtlessly resonate with…
Feeding the Flame of Revolt
NEW YORK—I was in federal court here Friday for the sentencing of Jeremy Hammond to 10 years in prison for hacking into the computers of a private security firm that…
Key Concept 2: Currency = Money = Energy
Key concept 2 is to understand that currency represents money and money represents energy. Today is really a great day to discuss this key concept as several reports have come…
The (Frightening) Genius of Ford
You heard it here first: Rob Ford is a genius and will likely win the Mayoral race next year.
Connecting with Liberals from Coast to Coast / Tisser des liens avec les Libéraux de partout au pays
Brian is busy travelling across Atlantic Canada at the moment. He’s meeting with Liberal members, and helping provide them with the tools they need to be heard and to succeed.…