Their Coming Enriched This Country
CBC Digital Archives Thirty-six years ago, Canada opened its doors to a flood of refugees from Vietnam. Tim Harper writes on this Remembrance Day: Scott Mullin was 22 and barely…
2015
Lest We Forget: Tar Sands and War
Photo from Public Domain Lest we forget, the tar sands fuel war and the phrase ‘never again’ requires a deeper look at the historical development of the tar sands. Since…
remembrance day: 11 anti-war books
Remembrance Day readers’ advisory: eleven books to help us contemplate the reality of war, and thus oppose it. 1. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque 2. War…
Ottawa-bound, remembrance
Heading up for a couple meetings. If I get a chance, I plan to go to the War Memorial at 11. See you there, perhaps.
Lost my Poppy
Remembrance Day….. Lost my new poppy..was pinned on fastSeems them soldiers have the last laughReminding us, they are still proudLooking for “My Poppy”…their jokes allowed. I pinned it firm over…
E-FLAP #000008 – The RWNJs at The Rebel Is Going To Do Sciency Science
Oh God, the impending hilarity that is going to ensue with this series from Joshua Lieblein at The Rebel Media. Yup they are going to reclaim science for Conservatives and…
E-FLAP #000008 – The RWNJs at The Rebel Is Going To Do Sciency Science
Oh God, the impending hilarity that is going to ensue with this series from Joshua Lieblein at The Rebel Media. Yup they are going to reclaim science for Conservatives and…
E-FLAP #000008 – The RWNJs at The Rebel Is Going To Do Sciency Science
Oh God, the impending hilarity that is going to ensue with this series from Joshua Lieblein at The Rebel Media. Yup they are going to reclaim science for Conservatives and…
Remembrance Day 2015: Remembering the Dead and the Living
It's Remembrance Day 2015, and this year it will be for me like no other I have ever known. A day of sadness and celebration.A day to mourn all those…
E-FLAP #000008 – The RWNJs at The Rebel Is Going To Do Sciency Science
Oh God, the impending hilarity that is going to ensue with this series from Joshua Lieblein at The Rebel Media. Yup they are going to reclaim science for Conservatives and…
Remembrance Day 2015 #nlpoli
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In Flanders Fields? It’s time to encourage another generation of school kids to read some better poems from the Great War
PHOTOS: In Flanders Fields? The reality of the Great war’s battlefields: squalor, incompetence, mechanized industrial death. Below: John McCrae, and a Great War poet still worth reading, Wilfred Owen. A…
Forty years ago the Edmund Fitzgerald was wrecked
Doctor Grumpy in the House: November 10, 1975:
Lest we forget—enough already
Lest we forget? How could we possibly? At this time of year we are overwhelmed with noise about not forgetting. Now the warrior worshipers are demanding that stores not put…
He is "entitled to his entitlements"
If you were as generally loathed as Harper is, I wouldn’t let him fly commercial either. But the Conservatives led by Harper made great hay out of Don Dingwall’s unfortunate…
He is "entitled to his entitlements"
If you were as generally loathed as Harper is, I wouldn't let him fly commercial either. But the Conservatives led by Harper made great hay out of Don Dingwall's unfortunate…
He is "entitled to his entitlements"
If you were as generally loathed as Harper is, I wouldn’t let him fly commercial either. But the Conservatives led by Harper made great hay out of Don Dingwall’s unfortunate…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Hunched cats.
Rafe Mair: A senior citizen’s perspective on the federal election and where we go from here
Rafe Mair – with more than a few grey hairs (photo: Youtube/CMHABC) Like most Canadians, I’ve a spent much of the past week or so trying to figure out what…