The Latest Gaza Horror and Israel’s War on the Media
When I read stories like this one. A deadly attack on a school in the city of Rafah in the south of Gaza has been denounced as a "moral outrage"…
2014
Author’s Note: Changes are coming to Alberta Diary, soon to be AlbertaPolitics.ca
Write hard. Live a long time. (Edited version.) Tattoo by Jason Edward Morgan, Bastrop, Texas. Round about the end of summer – Labour Day or thereabouts if God’s willin’ and…
USB Broken
It’ll be hard to justify using USB now. It basically must be assumed to be malicious/infected. It was so nice to have a standard port too! I guess USB condoms…
Hello hello why am I not getting the attention I demand?
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A Call For Change In Business
It wasn’t so long ago that businesses recognized people at their local levels as having something to contribute. That individual employees have a meaning greater than the “bottom line”. That…
How does one homeschool, with all the intensity that involves, and be a compassionate, informed person at the same time?
Sometimes it is really hard to keep balance. How does one balance parenting with everything else? I don’t want to undervalue my husband’s contribution to our family life – his…
Canada’s Searing Moment of Clarity
I hope you didn’t miss it. The events of the past month in that distant corner of the world, the mid-east, shone a light of fierce brilliance on our own…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – John Millar writes that a determined effort to eliminate poverty would be a plus as a matter of mere public accounting (even…
The Chinese Test Example
I’m going to quote at some length from David Wiley’s Facebook page to set this up (so you don’t have to go get a Facebook account to read this), and…
Quebec independence – Decline, and Fall?
A couple of weeks ago Maclean’s political editor Paul Wells, taking note of the decline in pro-independence sentiment in Quebec, gave some of the credit to Prime Minister Harper. This…
The World Is Catching On
http://www.pm.gc.ca/ Rumour has it that CETA — the Canadian-European Trade Agreement — is in trouble. The problem is the Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism. Germany doesn’t like it. Jim Stanford writes:…
how a reinvented dutch library set new attendance records and why is this still controversial?
This is a library! (Image found here.) This article about the incredible Nieuwe Bibliotheek (New Library) in the Netherlands got me thinking about the current state of libraries – and…
John Tory calls Rob and Doug Ford “flim-flam” artists
Here. A flim-flam artist is someone who engages in a “trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game.” Yep. .
Southern Ontario Skins: A Cast of Stooges Part VI (Greatest Email Exchange Ever!!!)
You know, there are times when we have to wonder what good karma we have amassed for fortune to fall into our laps. Ladies and gentlemen, might we introduce you…
A Political Economic Analysis of Canada’s Role in the Atlantic Slave Triangle
As Ontario reflects on Emancipation Day, I think it is crucial to remember the role of both Upper Canada and British North America in the Atlantic Slave Triangle, one of…
They have finally fired Bill Blair!
Enough of this mealy-mouthed graciousness, already! They are getting rid of Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair and good riddance to him. It is surprising that he had the gall to…
Harper’s Reign Of Terror: Star Readers Respond
Stephen Harper’s attack on those charities that refuse to hew to the regime’s dogma and ideology is becoming increasingly recognized for what it is: the wanton, immoral, unethical and likely…
Defence or Destruction?
Gaza deaths reported to July 8 – July 30 – 1,363, Injured – 6,780 the majority being civilians, including women and children. Israeli deaths – 58 just two of which…
The Con Clown John Baird and the Destruction of Gaza
As if the situation in Gaza wasn't bad enough. As if the need for serious diplomacy to end the slaughter couldn't be greater.As if Canada wasn't enough of a rogue…