Armageddon avoided for now
By my admittedly inexpert calculations, five hours later and the Chelyabinsk meteor would have hit north of Edinburgh. Twelve hours later, it would have been uncomfortably close to Saskatoon. You…
2013
#skndpldr Roundup
The second-last Saskatchewan NDP leadership debate took place in Moose Jaw this past week, with the most thorough coverage coming from the Times-Herald (and Justin Crann). As usual I’ll hold…
The Credibility Gap: All Talk and Not Much Action on Climate Change
By Hannah McKinnon, National Program Manager at Environmental Defense. In last week’s State of the Union address, President Obama reiterated his vision for clean energy and urgent action on global…
An Open Response Letter to the New Afrikan Black Panther Party with regard to it’s Position Paper titled: Black Liberation in the 21st Century: A Revolutionary Reassessment of Black Nationalism
An Open Response Letter to the New Afrikan Black Panther Party with regard to it’s Position Paper titled: Black Liberation in the 21st Century: A Revolutionary Reassessment of Black Nationalism…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Michael Harris concludes that we’re currently stuck in a golden age for political falsehood and deceit: (T)here are problems with blotting out inconvenient…
Another Day, Another Warning
The American Association for the Advancement of Science annual convention is underway in Boston and climate change seems to be what everyone is talking about. Heat waves have become more…
and one great read from harper’s: nicholson baker on "why i’m a pacifist: the dangerous myth of the good war"
After finally getting Jill Lepore’s “Lie Factory” posted on this blog, I will go back even further, to something I’ve wanted to post for nearly two years. No matter the…
Fight The Right at Queen’s on February 28!
Details right here!
Albert and the Lion
A recent comment on Facebook – “You just can’t resist poking the bear…”* made me remember a poem by Marriott Edgar that I enjoyed as a child in the 1950s:…
A Morose, Vindictive Man
Speaking at the Salt Spring Forum in December, Tom Flanagan — Stephen Harper’s former eminence gris — said of his former pupil: He is an unusual package of characteristics. He…
Sandra on the Hill?
Great column, great idea.
two great reads from the new yorker, part 2: jill lepore on political advertising
The current New Yorker stories by Joseph Mitchell has given me an opportunity to post something I’ve been meaning to share for ages. Last September, Jill Lepore unearthed an incredible…
two great reads from the new yorker, part 1: joseph mitchell on himself
The New Yorker has given us a singularly rare gift: new writing by Joseph Mitchell. Joseph Mitchell wrote about New York City and the multiplicity of people who inhabit it.…
Sandra update
Here. Where she goes, we go.
One Anglo-Quebecer’s take on the language debate
The anglophone community has deep roots in Quebec, I however do not. I moved to Quebec back in October of 2011, so that’s less than two years that I have…