Peter Kennard: A very unofficial war artist
The Exhibiton — Peter Kennard: A Very Unofficial War Artist, Imperial War Museum, London The Film — Zygosis: John Heartfield and the Political Image by Gavin Hodge & Tim Morrison…
August 2015
Motherboard: How First Nations Kids Built Their Own Internet Infrastructure
First Nations kids in Ontario found a solution to no high-speed, ridiculously expensive Internet service: they built their own infrastructure. Learn more below, and demand world-class Internet service for 100%…
Andrew Coyne Nails It – Again. It’s Not About Duffy. What Matters is the Corruption at the Very Top.
We’ve probably all run into people who don’t get what Wright-Duffy is all about or why it’s a big deal or a deal at all. Andrew Coyne might have been…
The Venereal Game
The Venereal Game is the provocative subtitle of James Lipton’s 1968 classic, An Exaltation of Larks (reprinted in 1977, and later expanded in the 1993 “ultimate” edition). Venereal, in this sense, comes…
Do you understand the meanings of following words?
One of my favourite blogger Mound of Sound uses very difficult words that I have to check Google for their meanings. I have been a university lecturer and civil servant…
Rafe Mair’s ‘State of the Union’ on Canadian environmental politics
Rafe Mair’s take on the state of Canada today is compelling, instructive and a reality check for those of us following the federal elections through the lens of the…
Juxtaposition
In 2008, a floundering candidate for public office made a fool of himself by turning serious economic danger into an opportunity to showboat, only to find that nobody was buying…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Your news links for today: Nova Scotia cyberbullying law challenge ruling expected today – CBC News Canada’s Police Want Laws That Will Give Them ‘Real Time’ Access to Your Data…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Howard Elliott writes about the need for senior levels of government to help address the housing needs facing Canadian communities. And the…
Donald Trump’s first day in the Oval Office
It will be a disaster that U.S or world has not seen yet.
How To Stop An Oil And Gas Pipeline: The Unist’ot’en Camp Resistance
The Unist’ot’en people have been fighting the deplorable people at TransCanada, Enbridge, and other companies who are trying to increase their capability to destroy the environment. The Unist’ot’en camp began…
Worn and torn
I have worn out my tires. In six months
How to get engaged in Canadian politics: an educational resource
Here is a handy guide that will help you, disenfranchised Canadian, get engaged with and get involved in the upcoming (eventually, at the end of several more weeks of pre-election…
More Canaries
My guess is only the willfully ignorant, the profoundly stupid, and the ideologically blind do not realize the environmental peril we are experiencing, one primarily but not exclusively driven by…
The Assault On Planned Parenthood: A Long Campaign Against Reproductive Rights
In 2011, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to strip Planned Parenthood of federal funding, a move deemed necessary to ensure no taxpayer dollars were used on abortion despite existing…
KCCCC Day 23: the Apple Watch entry
The future is here. Lisa gave me an Apple Watch as a present. I have been lusting after one for months. So, I am writing today’s entry entirely on an…
When Bad News is Good News: Harper’s Call to Poloz
Was there any concrete economic reason for Stephen Harper to call Stephen Poloz yesterday, as global stock markets continued their gyrations? And then to have his office subsequently issue a…
Thomas Mulcair and Stephen Harper Dance to the Beat of a Shared Drummer
Someone posted a link to an interesting article yesterday, from January of this year. At the time the NDP were third in the polls and going nowhere, so the party…