Black boys deserve our tears: On White privilege & police brutality
Sometimes I cry when reading the news. I cry because so many horrendous things happen to people and I can’t possibly understand why this world is SUCH a horrible place.…
January 2014
How Humans Live
How humans live: Baby is born (healthy and able-bodied…. or not) and is totally dependent for one year. If able-bodied, the baby develops and with nurturing, enters school. Child may…
Change in Canada’s position on Jerusalem?
Prime Minister Harper is visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Previous Canadian official visits avoided the Western Wall as Canada (officially) does not recognize Israel's claim to Jerusalem as capital…
Response to Minister of Democratic Reform
Just two days before Christmas the GPC received a letter requesting a response on their ideas for electoral reform to be received before Jan 4th. The timing of the letter…
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ Erasmus Lecture
http://vimeo.com/m/78011617 I'm not totally convinced but it certainly is worth a listen.
Shelly Glover and the Latest Con Scandal
Oh no. Not another Con scandal? Not our poor artists? Not Shelley Glover. Heritage Minister Shelly Glover is under fire from opposition MPs over a fundraising event where members of…
Canadian Tamil Congress 2014 Pongal Dinner
The Canadian Tamil Congress hosted its seventh annual Pongal Dinner at the Hilton Toronto / Markham Suites Conference Centre. Sponsors of the event included Himelfarb Proszanski LLP, Chapel Ridge, Money…
What To Do About John, Eh?
Bernie Farber had a piece in the Ottawa Citizen yesterday re our nation’s first Prime Minister: …Sir John A. Macdonald was also a racist who disdained Chinese rail workers, the…
Neil Young and the Message That Must Be Heard
Well I guess Big Oil and its rented pimps in the Harper regime must be getting desperate eh?Neil Young is just too popular. They just can't stop him. Or silence…
Religious persecution on the rise
The Pew Research Center recently published a study of religious persecution over the period 2007-12 and the results aren’t pretty. Of 198 countries and territories included in the study, 29…
What Happens When You Just Don’t Clique?
April Reign The internet has been fantastically effective in allowing people to communicate. While post and phones and radios did allow communication across distances, they were not as easy and…
Review: War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
There’s a flavour of journalist whose names I know well because they are popular on the left, who write about things that I think are important and often (though not…
In Sunday’s Sun: the hate Olympics
“The Olympic Games,” says the president of the American Olympic Committee (AOC), belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.” Accordingly, he says, there should not be a boycott…
Legal errors could send Enbridge review back to drawing board
The 3-member Joint Review Panel for the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline Not even a month has pass since the federally-appointed Joint Review Panel (JRP) released its official report recommending…
Lena Dunham: My body’s nobody’s body but mine! You run your own body, let me run mine!
“My body’s nobody’s body but mine! You run your own body, let me run mine!” -Old song that used be in the elementary sex-ed program in the Canadian Curriculum Here
NOW Magazine’s movie critics simply suck! (With the exception of Norm Wilner perhaps…)
Filmmakers (including myself on occasion) struggle greatly for years to get their stories on the big screen, from writing dozens of screenplay drafts, to finding money, to shooting, to post-production,…
Is It Really This Simple?
Why does government keep steering us away from green energy development? Put another way, why does government keep us slavishly tied to fossil fuel energy? For some time I’ve put…
Economic history in the present: Potlatch and tax
This post inaugurates an occasional series I’m calling, “Economic history in the present”. This series will look at vignettes from global economic history with an eye to current phenomena or…