Lessons from the world of twits.
The first question for today: ‘Is there life after Twitter?’ Front-page news the other day at the Toronto Star was that columnist Paul Wells is boycotting Twitter. It is a…
September 2016
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and the Battle for the Millennial Vote
I'm glad to see that another poll is suggesting that most Americans believe Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump in their first debate.A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds that a majority of…
Samson sale price "reflective of risk": Galgay #nlpoli
Jonathan Galgay sent along an email to add some information to the post last week about the city’s tax assessment for the property at 50 Beaumont Avenue, also known as…
End Our Slow Motion Genocide!
Genocide can take place in slow motion, just like weapons of mass destruction. When I learned that people were calling land mines “weapons of mass destruction, in slow motion,” it…
Right-wing newspaper owners want your taxes to subsidize their obsolete, mismanaged, biased publications
PHOTOS: A typical daily newspaper press, once a common sight in small cities and larger towns throughout North America. This one was photographed through a window Tuesday in Brigadoon, Alberta,…
Theorizing a new radicalism: Henry Giroux on how to change the world
Image by odder In the overlapping realms of cultural studies and critical theory, few scholars have made a more significant impact upon contemporary educational theory than Henry Giroux. In 2002,…
Save the Elephants
African elephants are in trouble. Habitat fragmentation, in part due to urbanization, desertification and climate change, has constricted their range, leaving some isolated elephant groups vulnerable to local extinction events.…
Save the Elephants
African elephants are in trouble. Habitat fragmentation, in part due to urbanization, desertification and climate change, has constricted their range, leaving some isolated elephant groups vulnerable to local extinction events.…
Into the dark
Apparently provincial finances have joined monthly job reports as areas where if there’s nothing to be spun in the Saskatchewan Party’s favour, Brad Wall is making a concerted effort to…
Calculation of unreasonable delay for 11(b)
R. v. Coulter, 2016 ONCA 704: A. THE NEW FRAMEWORK SUMMARIZED Calculate the total delay, which is the period from the charge to the actual or anticipated end of trial…
MP petitions highlight the Alberta-Quebec pipeline divide
Alberta Conservative MP Shannon Stubbs, who represents the Lakeland riding, sponsored and presented electronic petition e-216 (Oil and gas exploration) to the House of Commons calling on the Government of…
Read this review and see if you can get through even a few sentences without thinking about someone else
Over and over and over. It will leave you feeling uncomfortable. It did me. Here.
Mr. Sniffles
I coined the term, historians will note, ten minutes into the debate. Scientific proof, below.
This week’s column: you move me
When I was a kid, my parents moved around a lot. But despite their best efforts, I always found them. Okay, okay. That’s Rodney Dangerfield’s joke, not mine. And there’s…
Sept. 28: Hold Onto Your Hats!
What was the most important story for Tuesday in the section that deals with Canada and the whole world? Wow! Be sure to read this lead story in section 2…
What Prince William and Kate Really Need to Know About B.C.
Dear Will and Kate, Welcome to beautiful British Columbia! You are getting a pretty epic tour this week — from Victoria and Vancouver to Bella Bella (sorry about the rain)…
Clinton Bags More Endorsements
The Washington Post endorsed Clinton for president weeks before the first debate. The New York Times took a little longer but came to the same conclusion. Okay, it is Donald…
Alicia Machado
This is the woman, by the way, who Donald Trump called a “pig.” Just in case you’re wondering if he is insane. Which, evidently, you should.
We Broke Through – And We’re Here to Stay
There was a great stir a couple of years back when atmospheric CO2 levels first spiked through the 400 ppm mark, a harbinger for ever more global warming to come.…