richardhughes.ca 2015-10-22 11:39:16
By Peter W. Rusland Shawnigan Lake’s historic little Catholic church has been bought by Mark Osmond, owner of the Black Swan Pub, the church’s next-door neighbour. Osmond says he…
2015
Let My Lab Coats Go!
Monday was a great day for science in Canada. The siege was lifted. Evidence-based thought was freed of its shackles. The Guardian celebrates Canada’s return to rational thought. Harper’s assault…
Do You See Where This Might Be Going?
September was the fifth consecutive month this year to set an all-time high temperature record. May was hotter than any May on record. June, July, and August – ditto. September…
Canada missed the memo: it’s OK to talk about inequality and capitalism
There is no political rocket science to the Oct. 19th election result. Even with our slanted first-past-the-post system, it would have been difficult for Stephen Harper’s Conservatives to squeak out…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, October 22, 2015
Your news links for today: Liberals plan swift overhaul of anti-terror law – Ottawa Citizen TPP means no more domain privacy – Cory Doctorow PRIVACY’S LAST CHANCE: CISA is on…
New column day
Here (via PressReader), on how the prisoner’s dilemma I wrote about back here wound up playing out in Canada’s federal election. For further reading, particularly on the difference in how…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Eduardo Porter highlights the continued growth in research showing that social benefits do nothing to stop people from pursuing work, but instead…
A Refrigerator That Doesn’t Need Energy
Refrigerators are a massive drain on our power grids because our modern world needs them to function. Without refrigeration our food networks wouldn’t be viable nor would we be able…
On rush jobs
Yes, one of the Libs’ first orders of business in government should be to rein in the worst excesses of C-51. But they instead seem to be limiting their plans…
A New Day
Following Montreal Simon’s lead in taking down his masthead urging all of us to resist the outgoing dictator, I have removed the ‘Official Member of Harper’s Enemies List’ from mine.…
Because Of Who He Was
https://www.pinterest.com/ Working for Stephen Harper, David Krayden writes, was not a pleasant experience: Since he first became leader of the Canadian Alliance and then the new Conservative party, Stephen Harper
Canada comes over from the dark side.
It is a night and day comparison. Stephen Harper embodied the Darth Vader of Canadian politics. Liberal Justin Trudeau is bringing us into the light. He promised Canadians the change…
A sad anniversary
R.I.P.
The End of Harperland and the Search for Truth and Justice
I took down this picture from this blog's masthead, where it has been for years.Because the tyrant has finally been toppled, and it's time to move on.But if Stephen Harper…
Going Forward after Harper’s Destruction of the Public Sphere. . . .
In the 1960s the German philosopher Jugen Habermas wrote a book entitled The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. When this book was finally translated around 1990 it helped to…
Stephen Harper’s Cowardly Closet and the Big Lie
Over the last year I have used this image and others like it a lot, for reasons I will explain later.But on the one-year anniversary of that crazed gunman's assault…
New Leadership Urgently Needed For The US, Canada and Britain
Imagine if Martin Luther King Jr., Tommy Douglas and Tony Benn were President of the US, and Prime Ministers of Canada and Britain, respectively. The world would certainly be a…
New Leadership Urgently Needed For The US, Canada and Britain
Imagine if Martin Luther King Jr., Tommy Douglas and Tony Benn were President of the US, and Prime Ministers of Canada and Britain, respectively. The world would certainly be a…
Polls, St. John’s East, and the coming provincial election #nlpoli
SRBP told you on Tuesday morning that the federal election did not bode well for the New Democrats and Conservatives in the province. The Liberals are just better organized than…