UK Climate Change Deniers Forced To Clean Up Act?
The GWPF are an organized group of AGW denialists based in the UK. They are fronted by the notorious Benny Peiser, and are known more widely for the fact that…
May 2014
Save Canada Post Door to Door Delivery
I remember as a child walking with my mom down to the local post office to get the mail. We lived in small town Alberta, and the post office was…
Saturday Photo: Daffodils, a Week Late
This was taken four years and a week ago, when the daffodils were at their best. This year everything is late, and the daffodils are just coming into their own.…
paris day three encore, in which I admit ptsd is forever
So it turns out it’s not just my snoring that’s keeping Connie up at night. It’s noises “that sound like you’re upset,” says my mother. Allan recently told me that…
May 10: How not to be an editor…
…First, though check out the the comments at the bottom of this page. There is a post there telling where to find platform statements of the two candidates for city…
On Death and Dying: Evolution and Networks
As he makes clear in a comment on his recent post, part of Dron’s motivation for depicting connectivism as a ‘family of ideas’ is so that he, too, can be…
Great tweet of the day
But if you think an open debate about reasonable limits on abortion is the pro-life end goal, I’ve got a chocolate teapot to sell you — Lauren DH (@roseneath_rd) May…
Southern Ontario Skinheads Outed
First, and in deference to our friends who actually ARE skinheads, it needs to be made clear that no one in the SOS is actually a skinhead. They've co-opted the…
Alberta: Land of milk and money.
Alberta is truly a land of wonders. For example, I wonder what kind of thinking went into giving whopping six-figure salaries to public servants? Alberta is awash in examples of…
paris, day three
We are back in our cozy room after a long, fun day with R… who I very much hope is now on the train to London! Connie and I went…
Failure and Redemption
The past month has seen the rise, fall and rise again of my bread making efforts. Mid-month, in April, I was having some success making sourdough breads and was looking…
While Wynne goes to the left, Hudak dives hard right
You might have thought that Tim Hudak would have learned his lesson after his disastrous and short lived attempt to push his party towards US style union busting: going hard…
South Africa, India, Quebec, and more.
South Africa’s elections are over. I’ve created a single catch-all table to show the full results, and compare to historic results as well. I wanted to present a map that…
New Study Links California Drought to Climate Change and Burning of Fossil Fuels
California, widely considered the U.S. state that most promoted the American Dream, may turn into a nightmare this summer as a result of the worst drought in at least 15…
Is Andrea Horwath for real?
That's what the new Kathleen Wynne ad asks Ontarians after Horwath said NO to an increased child benefit, an Ontario Pension Plan, better transit, and a new job creation strategy…
Is Andrea Horwath for real?
That’s what the new Kathleen Wynne ad asks Ontarians after Horwath said NO to an increased child benefit, an Ontario Pension Plan, better transit, and a new job creation strategy…
Is Andrea Horwath for real?
That's what the new Kathleen Wynne ad asks Ontarians after Horwath said NO to an increased child benefit, an Ontario Pension Plan, better transit, and a new job creation strategy…
Is Andrea Horwath for real?
That’s what the new Kathleen Wynne ad asks Ontarians after Horwath said NO to an increased child benefit, an Ontario Pension Plan, better transit, and a new job creation strategy…
There are no words left
This is so, so awful. As I read it, I kept wondering about those kids. Horrific. .