A Unique Canadian Story of Care, Innovation and Refugees
Melissa Campbell, founder of The Refugee Response Group, is a young Edmonton mother with a compassionate heart. When she heard about the plight of Syrian refugees, she wanted to help…
February 2016
Johnny Depp Channels Donald J. Trump
Well, actually, it's Johnny Depp with , Ron Howard, Alfred Molina, Robert Morse, Patton Oswalt, Jack McBrayer, Michaela Watkins, Henry Winkler, Stephen Merchant, Christopher Lloyd,Kristen Schaal, Andy Richter, Paul Scheer,…
Speaking Of Hypocrisy
So, the Catholic Church thinks it has something relevant to say about physician assisted death? After reading through the Bishops' letter to Alberta's Premier Notley, it's an amazing piece of…
Hillary as Groucho
Grist has a report of how Hillary Clinton now opposes oil drilling in the Atlantic, a bid to siphon some of the environmental vote away from Bernie Sanders.It brought me…
Ban Microbeads Now
Send an email to: ec.produits-products.ec@canada.ca Dear Minister McKenna: There is no need to give pollution a chance to overwhelm our water and enter our food chain. Plastic microbeads are considered…
A Way to Think About Digital Currency Replacing Cash
Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and other digital currencies are shaking up how the internet thinks about money. In turn, this has forced countries and large institutions to rethink how money works and…
The Royal Canadian Navy to Begin Refugee Patrols in the Aegean.
South of the Rio Grande they're called La Migra, the U.S. Border Patrol agents who intercept illegal immigrants heading for the States.Europe will soon have its own La Migra only…
The waiting room.
As we get older we spend more and more time in these places. Sometimes the chairs are comfortable. And when you have been called off to the optometrists, there isn’t…
An Idea Gaining Traction
The concept of a guaranteed annual income, a subject I have written about previously on this blog, seems to be gaining traction. A relatively simple way of uplifting countless people…
New column day
Here, expanding on this post as to Nathan Cullen's proposal to make sure the outcomes of all plausible electoral systems are taken into account in designing a new one. For…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Sally Goemer writes that extreme inequality is a cause of economic instability for everybody. And Tom Powdrill discusses the importance of organized labour…
Only In America
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The perils of political predictions in by-elections
A friend called the other evening. He wanted to know who would win tonight’s provincial by-election in Christine Elliott’s former electoral district of Whitby-Oshawa. Once again we had to patiently…
The Ottawa Citizen: with a whimper, not a bang
The Ottawa Citizen died yesterday. Oh, sure, there are still some good people there to put it out, for however long. But make no mistake: the marquee newspaper in our…
Stephen Harper and the House of Pork
If there is an enduring image of Stephen Harper's grotesque regime I suppose it will be something like that one.A lot of Con hogs heading for the trough, or trying…
Nalcor: Generations #nlpoli
Telegram editor Peter Jackson took a hard look this week at the implications of Nalcor’s effort this week to jack up electricity rates.As part of the company’s rate application to…
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
20 Years ago John Perry Barlow published the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace: Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace,…
Racism against aboriginal people in health-care system ‘pervasive’: study (repost)
?Michelle Labrecque pushes herself gingerly in a wheelchair down the hallway of a hotel. The Oneida woman was recently found to have a fractured pelvis, but she says it took…
The CVRD Politicians Passed A Motion Unanimously Opposing Steelhead LNG’s Proposal
The CVRD Board of Directors passed this motion at their Board Meeting tonight. ‘That the CVRD contact Steelhead LNG to inform them that the Regional District is opposed to…