Lenore Zann For NS/Federal NDP Leader
I’m happy to note that Nova Scotia MLA Lenore Zann was one of the few NDP-ers to survive the Crimson Tide earlier this week. In an previous career, Lenore acted…
2013
High Functioning Autism Speaks Continues Betrayal of 50% of Autism Spectrum With Intellectual Disability
Autism Speaks continues its betrayal of the 50% of persons on the autism spectrum, those with intellectual disability, those for whom autism is a disorder not a superior way of…
Freemen Evicted From Crown Land Near Grande Prairie; One Arrested
We had posted an article which connected one of the participants to Bill Noble, once a member of the Aryan Guard/Blood & Honour as well as a proponent of a…
Frackez-vous: French court passes ultimate fracking ban
Image: Damien Gillis/Fractured Land Read this story from Climate Progress on the fracking ban upheld by France’s constitutional court – perhaps the strongest yet in the world. France’s ban on…
Sinkholes and other sinking feelings
On the quiet night of August 11, 2013, a 30-m-wide sinkhole opened at Summer Bay near Orlando, Florida, and half of a luxury three-story villa collapsed into the yawning chasm.…
The Smallest Helper
While I was pondering the nature of flour in my cogitations about bread machines (I’m still debating which model, by the way – suggestions welcome, but local stores have few…
In Sunday’s Sun: you don’t know what you don’t know, you know?
All evidence to the contrary, political folks try to be helpful. They try to answer questions, for example. The media and their political adversaries ask them questions, and the above-noted…
If You Build It, They Will Come – Really!
Photo Cred: Harrogate Cycling Group In today’s Record, Jeff Outhit comes very close to suggesting that if we bike in K-W, we should expect to get hit by a car.…
Spoken word #2: “rigour”
Spoken word #2: “rigour” rigour Instructions for How to Read Filed under: Scribbles
Winnipeg Jingle Dance: “We deserve to live!”
Winnipeg, Oct. 12, 2013: Jingle dancers ready themselves to welcome the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Photo: Paul S. Graham Winnipeg, Canada: Thousands gathered at the…
Advice From Pat Robertson On How To Get ‘A Leg Up’ In Life
If you are feeling a bit down, I hope Robertson’s unintentional humour cheers you up: Recommend this Post
Whenever a new study or article comes out proving that the…
Whenever a new study or article comes out proving that the Canadian job market, compensation packages and standard of living are dwindling for most workers — especially young Canadians —…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Andrew Coyne sees the disproportionate influence wielded by the representatives elected by a minority of voters in Canada and the U.S. as evidence…
Concepts
On 2013-10-12 9:02 AM, Matthias Melcher wrote: If we consider, on one hand, all the aggregated connectionpatterns that make up a simple concept or word in an individual,and OTOH, in…
Nova Scotia Election – Why did the NDP lose?
NS Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil As TC suggested in his last pre-election post the Liberals did win big in the Nova Scotia election meaning that Liberal leader Stephen McNeil will…
New book articulates Harper’s unrelenting war on Canadian science
“The War On Science: Muzzled Scientists and Willful Blindness in Stephen Harper’s Canada”, a new book by Canadian author Chris Turner, presents “a passionate and meticulously researched argument” against the…
Oct.12: one million Candians depend on food banks…
..and food banks in New Brusnwick are facing an increasing demand. You can find both stories if you look hard enough through today’s back pages. Canadian poverty, if still below…
When Logic Does Not Factor Into Policy
Yesterday, Canada’s Minister for the Status of Women spoke on the recent decision for Canada to restrict funding related to War Rape and Forced Marriage victims to organizations and programs…
Will History Repeat Itself?
Jeff Rubin, the former CIBC economist turned author, has suggested in his books that as energy costs rise, some manufacturing will return to North America. Indeed, there are growing signs…
I downloaded this image from Facebook. It perfectly sums up…
I downloaded this image from Facebook. It perfectly sums up what Canadians are experiencing under the disgraced Harper Conservative government. The traitorous scum are slowly destroying Canada bit by bit,…