7 Habits According to Tolstoy
1. Keep an open mind 2. Practise empathy 3. Make a difference 4. Master the art of simple living 5. Beware your contradictions 6. Become a craftsman 7. Expand your…
2015
When Politicians Lie…er, Misspeak Themselves
“How do you know when a politician is lying? His lips are moving.”—Political joke. Politicians don’t lie. They misspeak, they overstate, they understate. And the press distorts, takes out of…
Global Warming is Really Just a Risk Mitigation Exercise
There are four broad outcomes depending on whether we act to mitigate climate change, and whether it is as bad (or worse than) what the models predict in terms of…
Global Warming is Really Just a Risk Mitigation Exercise
There are four broad outcomes depending on whether we act to mitigate climate change, and whether it is as bad (or worse than) what the models predict in terms of…
Global Warming is Really Just a Risk Mitigation Exercise
There are four broad outcomes depending on whether we act to mitigate climate change, and whether it is as bad (or worse than) what the models predict in terms of…
Global Warming is Really Just a Risk Mitigation Exercise
There are four broad outcomes depending on whether we act to mitigate climate change, and whether it is as bad (or worse than) what the models predict in terms of…
January 30 Years Ago
Originally posted on Grandparents' Journal: My grandmother I knew as “Nana” lived in Toronto when I was young. She’d moved back there from California, before I was born. She kept…
A Double Standard?
Under normal circumstances, a court of last resort would be welcomed in the pursuit of justice, but it is apparently an entirely different story when it involves holding Israel to…
Retrial of Al Jazeera Journalists Must Pave Way to Their Unconditional Freedom
Egypt’s retrial of Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and two other jailed Al Jazeera journalists acknowledges major flaws in their original convictions, says Amnesty International. The post Retrial of Al Jazeera Journalists…
Jan. 4: Prince Edward likes girls….
Quelle surprise…I guess that’s why it made page A2 of the ever-alert Irving press. But surely this has been public knowledge for years. I knew one of the Prince’s teachers…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Alex Himelfarb writes about the corporate push to treat taxes as a burden rather than a beneficial contribution to a functional society…
I grow old, I grow old, etc.
Me: "Wow, you slept late, buddy." Son 3: "Dad, I'm a teenager now. Teenagers sleep in." Me : "Oh. Right." — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 4, 2015
Prime Minister Harper’s Ugly Evangelical Capitalism
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The transformation of our country that Steve Harper foreshadowed has been underway for sometime and the results have been devastating. The war on science, scientists, the environment…
Review: Research is Ceremony
This book is the latest in my recent spate of reading meant to help me think through how to know and write the world through encounter, relation, and movement. It…
Paper News
There is a new online publication called Paper News with the following mission: A brand new online publication, Paper News is looking to bring a new voice to the national…
And the parties need you now.
There is a warm feeling to being needed. And judging by the carefully crafted e-mails from the political parties these days you know that it is really your money that…
Teddy’s prediction for 2015
Given current polls, and my expectations for the BQ and F&D, these are my current predictions for 2015.
“Nature Deficit Disorder”
At first glance this would seem to have little to do with our central theme here at Democracy Under Fire but when we look at the actions of the Harper…
Matt Ridley Fires Off About Coal Fortune
“I have declared my interest in the coal mining on my family’s land whenever and wherever relevant both in my writing and in Parliament. However, I generally argue in favour…