Quaker Works alumni magazine is out!
This news is slightly late but our alumni magazine is out. Our Quaker Works Spring 2015 issue hits mailboxes this week. Check it out online today! http://t.co/ZG49r0kBm5 pic.twitter.com/BJgDAO737E — Friends'…
2015
The Benefits of Consuming a Balanced Media Diet
As I come upon the 9-month mark as the Digital and Social Media Specialist, I’ve thought about how I’ve adjusted to stay up on local news that may affect us…
Dear late-night visitors
Technology has improved. You can get good-quality pictures of anything, these days. And showing up on the same day as all that media coverage? Not smart.
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Brad Delong discusses the two strains of neoliberalism which dominate far too much political discussion – and the reason why the left-oriented…
we movie to canada: wmtc annual movie awards, 2014-15 edition
Thanks to everything-on-demand media, and no thanks to my schedule that doesn’t permit me nearly enough time for baseball, Movie Season now runs all year, at least marginally. These annual…
The failure of the Information Age
It seems only a short while ago, as the Internet and the World Wide Web made their appearance, that prophets talked of a new enlightened age. All the world’s knowledge…
Sunday Morning Thought
The Real World also drips. https://t.co/zBAEFSfP47 — Bigcitylib (@Bigcitylib2) May 17, 2015 That is all.
Stuff Happens, week 18: PCs put up the ‘closed’ sign; candidate kerfuffle II; Dave departs
Election fallout continues. On Friday, the formerly unbeatable PCs essentially threw in the towel. In a stunning housecleaning, the ex-dynasty fired all staffers except one and announced plans to close…
The Mad Men FInale
I’ve seen every episode, and here is what I predict: 1. Sally finally gets laid; 2. Don kills himself, but that’s not related to Sally getting laid; 3. Roger proposes…
Would leaving euro be more of a catastrophe for Greece than staying? | Business | The Guardian
Would leaving euro be more of a catastrophe for Greece than staying? | Business | The Guardian. Larry Elliot Yanis Varoufakis rues the day when Greece joined the euro. The…
Why Would the Opposition Take Debate?
Federal election 2015: Conservative move on election debates raises questions Forget philosophical battles over free-market democracy – how, exactly, is this going to work? By Kady O’Malley, Janyce McGregor, CBC…
Alberta 2015 VS Canada 1993
During my travels on the interwebz, I’ve met a good number of people from a good share of political views. One of those people is Cory Morgan, a hard-right libertarian…
Stephen Harper and The Canada Revenue Agency: The Unholy Alliance Continues
I have written many times about the unholy partnership between Stephen Harper and the Canada Revenue Agency that takes the form of an auditing witch hunt of those charities that…
It’s hardly like winning the daily double.
Back in March Babel-on-the-Bay commented on how sad it would be if Pierre-Karl Pèladeau won the Parti Quèbècois leadership in Quebec and Patrick Brown won the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership…
A Sad State of Affairs
http://s378.photobucket.com/ Susan Delacourt writes that the Conservative proposal for leaders debates is a shining example of what she calls Harperology 101: He likes rules, as long as he’s making them,…
Harper History, Part 5B – G20, Census Axed, Contempt.
June 2010 – Mar 2011 In this the second half of part 5 of the ongoing Harper History series intended to remind our citizens exactly how little respect the Harper…
The Real Reason Stephen Harper Wants To Sabotage the Election Debates
A couple of days ago I wrote a post about Stephen Harper's plan to torpedo the party leader debates, or shrink them until he can drown them in a bath…
Vanity Videos and the Morphing of the Tories
Mister 100 Percent Satisified Move aside, YouTube: here come the new, improved Harper Tories’ Vanity Videos, made especially for every Canadian voter: Employment Minister Pierre Poilievre won’t apologize for using…
So many premiers, so little time, so little space – it’s time to end the tradition of commissioning their portraits in oils
PHOTOS: Your blogger’s proposal for a portrait of outgoing premier Jim Prentice. Below: The modest photographic gallery of premiers in the B.C. Legislature in Victoria; a detail from the same…