Inequality for All
I watched Robert Reich’s film last summer on a camping trip. I woke up in the middle of a pitch-dark night and couldn’t fall back asleep. I tried a movie…
2014
Citizenship For Sale
Are there things that money shouldn’t be able to buy? In an age when the ‘wisdom of the market’ is an orthodoxy embraced by many, it is a question that…
Stephen Harper and the Incredible Shrinking Surplus
Well it was only a matter of time before somebody totalled up the damage from the plunging price of oil.Added it to Stephen Harper's reckless decision to spend billions trying…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Mark Gongloff takes a look at social mobility research from multiple countries, and finds that there’s every reason for concern that inheritance…
Laughing All The Way
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ Stephen Harper is in power because the two so called “progressive” alternatives have spent more time fighting each other than fighting him. The current furor over sexual harassment continues…
Vitriolic nastiness does not breed respect.
Stephen Lewis , the former Ontario NDP leader, United Nations ambassador and lifelong human rights advocate recently took aim at the “pre-paleolithic Neanderthals” in office and their role in the…
The hard heart of the Hair.
You could barely hear over the running up of the A310 engines at Ottawa Airport. The Hair and his chatelaine stood at the door of the giant aircraft waving goodbye…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
On this first Sunday of the Advent season, I’m sharing an unusual video for a department store to create. It is this year’s official Christmas ad for Sainsbury, a British…
Leona Aglukkaq, the Hungry Kids, and the Callous Cons
Last night I wrote about the hunger crisis in the North, and how the hapless Harper stooge Leona Aglukkaq was trying to muzzle critics of the federal Nutrition North program.As…
McIntyre’s Mission: An Obsessive Quest to Disprove Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick
There is no better way to describe self-appointed climate auditor Steve McIntyre than ‘determined’. Highly determined even. And you would have to be pretty obstinate to try and poke holes…
Why Denmark fears militarization of Arctic islands means Canada could soon control almost all of Hudson’s Bay, and other tall tales
If we just listened to Stephen Harper and the BBC, what a wonderful world this would be! Below: Catherine the Great, USAF Gen. Philip Breedlove. Last Wednesday, the British Broadcasting…
On inconsistent statements
Shorter Leona Aglukkaq: It’s libellous to suggest that I privately demanded that Sam Tutanuak apologize for exposing the fact that my constituents are going hungry. But while I have your…
SFH on Broadway!
Check out who provided music for Julie Pacino’s film debuting in NYC this week! Credits, bottom left!
Half marathon
I’m very pleased with myself, yes. I did the distance three or so weeks ago, but using the 10 minutes running, one minute walking training method the Running Room uses…
Harpers CATCH 22
Filed under: Cartoons (Single Panel), Making fun of Conservatives, Making fun of Harper
International Day of Action for Burnaby Mountain and ALL Land Defenders
This is an international day of action, so check the event page to see what’s up in your town, for TOMORROW! And if there’s nothing at your home, be the…
Knowledge as Recognition
This is an assignment for a grade 12 philosophy course. Proposition Most theories of knowledge depict knowledge as a type of belief. The idea, for example, of knowledge as ‘justified…
Xmas Horror Descends To New Depths!
My wife has recently started watching chick flicks about Xmas on the Hallmark Channel. She won’t stop. I call them Chickmas Flicks. I can’t barf harder, or any more frequently.
"Jump" Principle
R v Johnsrud, 2014 ABCA 395: “Jump” Principle This principle of sentencing suggests that sentences for repeat offenders should increase gradually, rather than by large leaps. The appellant concedes that…
Let the people speak!
If you’ve been following us this past week, you know that tomorrow we’ll be presenting at a crucial CRTC hearing that will determine how all of us here in Canada…