Alan Kurdi’s Family Begins New Life as Refugees in Canada
TUE, DEC 29 The Syrian family became symbols of the refugee crisis after photos of the family’s boy, who washed up dead, on a Turkish beach, sparked international outrage. NBC…
January 2016
Alan Kurdi’s Family Begins New Life as Refugees in Canada
TUE, DEC 29The Syrian family became symbols of the refugee crisis after photos of the family's boy, who washed up dead, on a Turkish beach, sparked international outrage. NBCThis is…
Viva les Piratas Canadienses!
My friend Kate is currently in a 500 km boat race in the Indian Ocean called the Ngalawa Cup - sailing a dugout canoe with outriggers and a single sail.…
Jan. 2: Watch for the subtle differences…
In this case The Guardian and the Moncton Times and Transcript (via The Asssociated Press) were reporting on exactly the same story at the same time. But the starting point…
Alan Kurdi’s Family Begins New Life as Refugees in Canada
TUE, DEC 29The Syrian family became symbols of the refugee crisis after photos of the family's boy, who washed up dead, on a Turkish beach, sparked international outrage. NBCThis is…
Saturday Photo: Sil, or Pickled Herring
As the holiday season ebbs, we have begun once again to eat sil, or Swedish pickled herring. Our consumption was interrupted by bouts of stomach flu or some such. Seems…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Paul Krugman discusses the connection between concentrated wealth and extreme anti-social political behaviour:Wealth can be bad for your soul. That’s not just a hoary…
Behold the future
Justin Trudeau is probably the first politician I can think of who knows this stuff already. Also, I’ll bet you are reading this on a Smart Phone. “Ms. Kocar said…
Lessons from the paper
There’s a story on page B2 of the January 1 Enterprise Bulletin (not online yet*) that offers us three lessons. Two lessons on how the local media fails us, one…
Why Your Students Forgot Everything On Your PowerPoint Slides (Mary Jo Madda)
Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:Mary Jo Madda writes for EdSurge. This post appeared January 19, 2015. Don’t fret, we’ve all been there: You’re up…
Rona Ambrose and the Outrageous Con Coup
I see that Rona Ambrose really is trying to make it look like her Cons are a kinder gentler version of the Harper Party.For that's the first time the word…
One of These Is So Not Like the Others
One of these is different from the others but just not in a way you might guess - Chicago, Vienna, Istanbul, the North Pole.Yes, it's the North Pole and what…
Maybe the Bastard Will Demand Royalties
It was only a matter of time. The Orange Slime has been featured in a jihadist recruitment video.A clip of Donald Trump is featured in a purported new recruitment video…
Winter is coming, except when it isn’t
Good Lord. Look, pal, we are all sorry you had to take time out from rolling around naked in piles of money to type up a too-long, too-self-involved, too-boring blog…
And one determined dipper.
Over the years we have realized that most of our regular readers of Babel-on-the-Bay are among the more progressive liberals. We certainly enjoy a healthy level of readership and get…
Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me…
Turning 64, as in the 1967 Beatles’ song, once seemed so distant that it it was as remote as flying cars and jet packs. By the time I reached that…
Proceeding without caution
Even slightly aware BC citizens know that Premier Clark and her accomplices are incompetent. Liberal managers include not a single person capable of completing a basic course in strategic decision…
Calgary Sun, angry conservatives try to spin a glorified typographical error into the first political brouhaha of 2016
PHOTOS: Independent Calgary-Bow MLA Deborah Drever in a recent shot grabbed from her Facebook page. Below: Wildrose Finance Critic Derek Fildebrand (grabbed from Facebook) and PC interim Leader Ric McIver…
Hey Word Swag…
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