Chicken Harper and the Con’s New Campaign Song
Well as you know Chicken Harper has changed his tune or his feathers. Now he isn't going around claiming people should vote for him because only he can save us…
2015
The edible helium balloon!
I don’t have an actual bucket list, but if I did, inhaling helium would have been on it. I finally got my chance to do it a couple of weeks…
CMHR: The Unbearable Lightness of Inclusion
Graphic by Krishna Lalbihaire. Few buildings in Winnipeg, or Canada, have been as contested prior to their construction, let alone their opening, as the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Plagued…
Sentencing sexual offences against children
R. v. S.N., 2015 NUCJ 25: As outlined by this Court in DeJaeger, at paragraphs 173 and 174, Nunavut leads the country in its per capita rate of sexual offences…
Technology & Teamwork Can Ease Transition for Kids With Disabilities
For most, high school graduation is a happy and hopeful celebration as parents launch their children into a successful, independent life. But there’s an expression that parents of children with…
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…
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…