Caregiving Chores – Love ‘Em, Hate ‘Em
Every caregiver will tell you there are some tasks that feel like nails on a blackboard. And to add insult to injury, these despised jobs are the ones that need…
2013
Azealia Banks controversy comes with hypocrisy
Much controversy has been stirred by American rapper Azealia Banks's tweet to gossip maven Perez Hilton, which stated "omg u should just kill yourself… Like for real… lol what a…
Azealia Banks controversy comes with hypocrisy
Much controversy has been stirred by American rapper Azealia Banks’s tweet to gossip maven Perez Hilton, which stated “omg u should just kill yourself… Like for real… lol what a…
Azealia Banks controversy comes with hypocrisy
Much controversy has been stirred by American rapper Azealia Banks's tweet to gossip maven Perez Hilton, which stated "omg u should just kill yourself… Like for real… lol what a…
Azealia Banks controversy comes with hypocrisy
Much controversy has been stirred by American rapper Azealia Banks’s tweet to gossip maven Perez Hilton, which stated “omg u should just kill yourself… Like for real… lol what a…
5487…This Is Canada
From Facebook: The truth. Nothing but. WFDS
Richard Alley: Ice sheets and sea level in a warming world
(h/t Peter Sinclair)
A Crisis of Environmentalist Faith
A couple of sentences from Matthew Altman (from “The Green Onion“) have been weighing on me for days: Ironically, environmentalism itself can become a means of advancing our own selfish…
On ranges of options
There are surely worse offenders to point out in the bevy of recaps and previews we inevitably see at year’s end. But I’ll pick on Paul Wells’ latest as an…
Ottawa businesses support Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike
by Teresa Smith | Ottawa Citizen: OTTAWA — Two Ottawa businesses are donating their time and services to help Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence as she continues to her hunger strike…
When Is a Public Hearing Not a Public Hearing?
Can you call something a “public hearing” when you refuse admission to the sitting Member of Parliament for the area you’re holding your meeting? Newly-minted Victoria NDP MP Murray Rankin…
A Recipe for a New, Healthy Canadian Economy for 2013
Ann Dale, Canada research chair in community sustainability at Royal Roads has formulated a recipe for a new and healthy Canadian economy for 2013. Among other things, Dale argues we…
What Is Your Favourite State Best, or Worst, At?
Most Canadians have a favourite U.S. state, usually the best known to them or the one they feel most comfortable with. Yet you might be surprised to discover what your…
Harper May Have his Coalition but he doesn’t have Canada
Stephen Harper keeps support of ‘coalition’ of voters: poll “Among the findings in the Dec. 7-12 Ipsos Reid poll: * 44 per cent of Canadians think Harper’s majority government is…
Harper May Have his Coalition but he doesn’t have Canada
Stephen Harper keeps support of ‘coalition’ of voters: poll“Among the findings in the Dec. 7-12 Ipsos Reid poll: * 44 per cent of Canadians think Harper’s majority government is “working…
Harper May Have his Coalition but he doesn’t have Canada
Stephen Harper keeps support of ‘coalition’ of voters: poll “Among the findings in the Dec. 7-12 Ipsos Reid poll: * 44 per cent of Canadians think Harper’s majority government is…
Not Exactly a Confidence Builder
For reasons I don’t understand I often read the Times Colonist online before I go out to the front porch and pick up the morning’s print edition. This morning the…
Jack Knox It Straight Out of the Park
Victoria Times Colonist scribe Jack Knox has it right. It’s not eco-hippies who will stop Harper’s Northern Gateway pipeline, it’s the heart of middle-class Canada who will do that job.…
Walk a Mile
A few days ago, I had one of those “eff you, I’m turning off the radio and all y’all are just a bunch of paint-sniffing reticulated jerk muffins” moments. It…