Never mind sex – what are you teaching your kid about MY kid?
(I know I haven't blogged here in a long while, but this needed to be said long-form.) I overheard a conversation between two women today about Ontario's new sex education…
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Never mind sex – what are you teaching your kid about MY kid?
(I know I haven’t blogged here in a long while, but this needed to be said long-form.) I overheard a conversation between two women today about Ontario’s new sex education…
Never mind sex – what are you teaching your kid about MY kid?
(I know I haven't blogged here in a long while, but this needed to be said long-form.)I overheard a conversation between two women today about Ontario's new sex education curriculum.…
Everything’s Harper: C-51 and the unmaking of Canada
Illustration by Hugh D’Andrade Stephen Harper’s not-so-benign dictatorship is picking up speed. Bill C-51 is merely the latest sprint toward the Rule of Steve. Here we have a piece of…
Kinder Morgan, NEB Draw Ire for Oil Spill Response Plans Released in Washington State, But Not B.C.
Since DeSmog Canada broke the story two weeks ago that Kinder Morgan publicly released its emergency oil spill plans for the Trans Mountain pipeline in Washington State while withholding or…
We Kill Our Revolutionaries
The State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Lithograph by P.S: Duval and Co., 1855. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio—Siddique Hasan, his legs shackled to a chair, sat in the fourth-floor visiting…
The Germans Get It. When Will We?
Sixty per cent of Germans believe that capitalism is the cause of poverty and hunger and that real democracy can’t be realized under that economic system. It seems they’re not…
A Different Kind of State
Photo by Olaf Kosinsky The position of Syriza is unenviable. It has taken power in a country in the grips of economic depression, riven by oligarchic networks and, for now,…
Germany’s sickly economy | Europe’s World
Germany’s sickly economy | Europe’s World. Filed under: Austerity, Eurozone crisis Tagged: Eurozone Crisis, German Economy, Germany
John Pilger: Venezuela’s Struggle Against “a Common Enemy”
Photo by Jorge Paparoni With a “slow-motion coup” underway in Venezuela, John Pilger is interviewed for Telesur, the Latin American TV network, by Mike Albert. Mike Albert: Why would the…
Juncker urged to revive ‘Social Europe’ model
Juncker urged to revive ‘Social Europe’ model. by Benjamin Fox The ‘Social Europe’ model must be revived if the EU is to avoid lumbering itself with low social mobility and…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats on guard.
Never mind sex – what are you teaching your kid about MY kid?
(I know I haven’t blogged here in a long while, but this needed to be said long-form.) I overheard a conversation between two women today about Ontario’s new sex education…
Some figure drawing from The Arts Project
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Stephen Harper and the Muzzling of the Bill C-51 Debate
He didn't bother to attend the parliamentary debate on his dangerously flawed anti-terrorist bill C-51. He shut down that debate after only a few hours.And now he's making sure that…
Apparently It’s Our Fault. Sorry.
Hey, Nice Car! I won’t tell you about the lovely motorcycle ride along the coast road I enjoyed yesterday. It was great but I won’t get into that. And I’m…
Hot Room Politics
Media in Ottawa are too busy eating each other alive to focus on the main course passing authoritarian Bill C-51. Glen McGregor takes the proposed Press Gallery changes apart. @pdmcleod…
There was and still is an unnerving, hollow energy around St. Michael’s Residential School.
Georgia Collins went back to her roots for the ceremony shutting down St Michel’s (St. Mikes)Residential School. She kindly consented to sending it along to Cowichan Conversations. Georgia Collins I…
Ralph Nader’s Open Letter to Stephen Harper
February 18, 2015 The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, P.C., M.P. 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2 Dear Prime Minister: Many Americans love Canada and the specific benefits that have…
Humanists discuss political engagement
Last night, I attended a discussion hosted by the pan London Humanist group on what new opportunities there are for greater democratic engagement following the Scottish referendum on independence. It…