“They don’t need our vengeance, they need our help.”
I was supremely pleased this week when the Trudeau Liberals announced they will end Canada's CF-18 bombing of Arab lands this month, and instead ramp up training, diplomatic, and humanitarian…
February 2016
Stuff Still Happens, week 6: Trudeau keeps promise, gets roasted
The Trudeau government made good on one of its election promises this week. Whether it was a good decision remains to be seen. As promised, Trudeau is pulling our fighter…
Will 2017 Be the Year of the Great Global Migration?
It's going to happen and, when it does, it will eclipse anything we experienced in 2015. "It" refers to the first of what is predicted to become a constant wave…
Imagine If You Were Like Most People on Earth
Thank your lucky stars you're not. You're Canadian which is another way of saying very, very fortunate.A new study finds that almost two-thirds of mankind endures a severe water shortage…
On Command F: a Bittersweet Function
I tell my students of the magic of "command F" on Macs and "control F" on PCs. This F function key, that can find a word or phrase anywhere in…
Incremental inclinations of the incompetents.
The banker has been heard from. The other day we noted that Ontario wine drinkers were waiting to hear about liberalizing wine sales in Ontario. We have been waiting for…
The Demagogue Speaks Again
Won't anyone tell him just to shut up?Recently, the CBC, which has an ongoing yet inexplicable and wholly unwholesome relationship with Rex Murphy, gave him yet another opportunity to spew…
Has Rona Ambrose’s Bombing Campaign Just Gone Up In Smoke?
One might think by the way Rona Ambrose goes on and on about bombing people, that she was born to kill.And that she just can't help herself...But although she is…
Musical interlude
Underworld - Born Slippy
Out for 35 years
Reading something which noted that 1981 was 35 years ago jarred me into realizing that it was three-and-a-half decades ago this very month that I officially came out of the…
Why is Rex Murphy Trying to Inflame Alberta Separatists?
As I pointed out recently, Big Oil's sinking fortunes are driving its faithful hooker Rex Murphy over the deep end.He has been using his bully pulpits on The National and…
Feb.12: The big news is that Camilla got drunk,..
... and hit Prince Charles with a dead fish.Oh, no. That was in a gossip mag for people who aren't interested in news, just in sensationalist gossip of no importance…
Personal Learning MOOC
Instructor: Stephen DownesThis course explores the topic of learning in three ways: first, through an examination of research and development issues related to the topic; second, through interaction with a…
Chill, Baby, Chill
After spending a rather stressful past day-and-a-half on personal matters, I found the advice of Clive Weighill, President of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police and Saskatoon's police chief,…
Personal Learning MOOC
Instructor: Stephen DownesThis course explores the topic of learning in three ways: first, through an examination of research and development issues related to the topic; second, through interaction with a…
Le budget de 2016, la stimulation économique, et l’AE
Déclaration commune des groupes communautaires et syndicaux sur le budget de 2016, la stimulation économique et l’AE Nous exhorter le gouvernement à agir rapidement et de façon décisive pour rétablir…
Old-Growth Threatened by Site C as Ecologically Important as Great Bear Rainforest, Former B.C. Biologist Says
The Peace Valley old-growth forest slated to be clear cut for the Site C dam is just as important, if not more ecologically significant, than the Great Bear Rainforest, says…
Old-Growth Threatened by Site C as Ecologically Important as Great Bear Rainforest, Former B.C. Biologist Says
The Peace Valley old-growth forest slated to be clear cut for the Site C dam is just as important, if not more ecologically significant, than the Great Bear Rainforest, says…
The first anniversary of the death of Sun News
Remembered it’s been a year – time flies, eh? As you may recall, I wrote the open letter thing below, and it attracted about 300 comments. Sun News attracted strong…