Wrong side of history
Well, in one sense, I guess you could argue that Harper is right when he says that bringing to justice the murderers of Aboriginal women is a law enforcement matter.…
August 2014
Shutting down the blog.
Turns out a job doesn’t leave much time for blogging. And a 65-75 hour a week job makes it even tougher to fit in the time to write. Also, I…
Just as things were looking up a bit for foundering PCs, Alison Redford showed up again
Alison Redford contemplates which way to turn as she leaves behind a trail of devastation, toward the capital city’s new Sky Palace Hotel, left, or toward Edmonton’s High Level Bridge,…
An Unstealable Bike
Coming soon, in six to ten months, in Spanish first. A bike made with a frame that comes apart and becomes the lock for the bike. If the lock is…
Sausage Man!™
The newest superhero sensation – from Maine!
The stepping stones
Filed under: art Tagged: Cat
Will Adult Autism Care Issues Be Considered During #nbvotes 2014?
New Brunswick election 2014 is underway with the NDP, Liberal, Green and PANB parties going all out to replace the PC party. Party signs are proliferating around the city of…
On broken connections
The CP reported here on Sana Hassainia’s resignation from the NDP caucus and the immediate aftermath. And it’s worth taking a look at both the narrow view that seems to…
Tricks of the mind
Reading involves bit of trickery. Mental trickery. It engages the imagination and fools us into thinking we are there within the book: nestled beside the author, or better yet, beside…
Nearly Three Weeks Later, Impact of Mount Polley Spill on Quesnel Lake Virtually Unknown: Expert
“It’s hard to deal and treat something if you don’t know what it is,” Richard Holmes, fisheries biologist with Cariboo Envirotech, said in an interview at Mount Polley Mine, home…
August 23: let’s be nice….
,,,,just for the start. Friday’s regular Whatever section with columns written by high school and university students always has some of the best writing in the paper. All of those…
Great Artwork
Great Artwork and caricatures at Andrewmok.ca. Filed under: art
The Washington Post Asks – Was Putin Right?
It was last September when Vladimir Putin penned an op-ed about Syria that ran in The New York Times. The West rejected Putin’s views then but now The Washington Post…
More on the War against Children: Quebec’s Education Minister Says Not Buying Books Won’t Kill Kids
My jaw dropped yesterday when Le Devoir quoted Yves Bolduc, Quebec’s education minister, as saying that not buying books for school libraries wasn’t a problem because it wouldn’t kill kids.…
It’s Not That We Disagree, It’s That I Despise Your Ideas
When ever I read another article and view another series of photographs of the carnage Israel has inflicted on the civilian population of Gaza and then think of the Netanyahu…
Missouri situation: -"St. Louis cop: ‘If I need to, I will kill whole bunch more"
(CNN) — A Missouri police officer involved in maintaining security in troubled Ferguson was put on administrative leave Friday after a video surfaced showing him railing about the Supreme Court,…
Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading. – Matthew Yglesias writes that while increased automation may not eliminate jobs altogether, it may go a long way toward making them more…
At War With Reality
http://www.shift.is/ In a recent speech to the Canadian Medical Association, Health Minister Rona Ambrose told her audience: “At the end