Staphylococci, Corynebacteria, Actinobacteria, Clostridiales, and Bacilli. They’re the most common, but they’re not the only ones. Bacteria. Microbes. Yes, even parasites. Living in your belly button. And on your skin.…
TweetTomorrow is election day and in counties, municipal districts, villages, towns, and cities across the province, Albertans will cast their votes for mayors, reeves, councillors, aldermen, and school trustees. In…
A brief blogpost on this day to wish my old blogging colleague and fellow Liberal, Jason Cherniak, the best of luck as he runs for the Liberal nomination in Aurora-Oak…
Most of you who have conversed with me know my deep passion AGAINST the men’s rights movement. I can rant on forever why many men’s rights activists don’t really understand…
It’s been a while since I wrote about Freecycle – once as we were getting ready to move to Canada in 2005, then again when we moved from our first…
This morning The Sunday Assembly live-streamed their London service to a few hundred viewers across the globe. I watched from Leeds and saw people on Twitter watching it bright and…
On Friday, the United Steelworkers made the following submission to Ontario’s Minimum Wage Advisory Panel. The United Steelworkers union endorses the Ontario Federation of Labour’s (OFL) call for a minimum…
If, like me, you are of the firm suspicion that governments regard the needs of its citizens as largely secondary to those of its corporate backers, you will derive much…
Apparently a group of atheists are upset because Oprah suggested that people feeling awe and mystery were not, in fact, atheists. Hmmmn Well Oprah’s view of religion is not exactly…
The Enbridge pipeline people have an unfortunate acronym for their public awareness program: PAP. The only problem is that pap is defined in our dictionary as the soft or semi-liquid…
Last week’s throne speech made mention of “polluter pays” legislation. It appears that the Harperites will offer Barack Obama a carrot, if he approves the Keystone XL Pipeline. Unfortunately, the…
I have no issue with workers organizing collectively to increase their bargaining power in an effort to maximize what they receive in pay and benefits. That’s capitalism. Business seeks to…
I have no issue with workers organizing collectively to increase their bargaining power in an effort to maximize what they receive in pay and benefits. That's capitalism. Business seeks to…
I have no issue with workers organizing collectively to increase their bargaining power in an effort to maximize what they receive in pay and benefits. That’s capitalism. Business seeks to…
It's one of the scariest places in Canada eh? The dark heart of the Con conspiracy. The home of the Big Lie. And now Paul Wells has given us a…
With the next set of promises recently presented in the House after several days of targeted leaks of some of the content which highlighted ‘more choice of cable & satellite…
That is all (in more ways than one. Bah hah!)
Uh oh. What bad timing. Just the other day he was blowing his horn and telling his Con caucus that we must "seize the moment" and go "further and faster."…
In the last couple of weeks, there has been a lot in the news regarding Canada’s First Nations. The UN Special Rapporteur finished his tour and quite correctly stated that…
