People are not lab rats.
There is no question but that we have a high regard for former Senator Hugh Segal. But for God’s sake Hugh, you have got to stop treating people as laboratory…
November 2016
11.11
Anthem for Doomed Youthby Wilfred OwenWhat passing-bells for these who die as cattle? — Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out…
Remembrance Day 2016
Captain Nichola Goddard -srbp-
RIP Leonard Cohen
Words that feel especially poignant right now. Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the…
Thinking of my grandfather, the Canadian Army Engineer
On the eve of Remembrance Day I am thinking of my maternal grandfather, Lawrence Anthony Bradley, who served as an engineer with the Canadian Army in England during the Second…
Leonard Cohen, poet, musician, 1934-2016
But you’ll be hearing from me, baby, long after I’m gone I’ll be speaking to you sweetly From my window in the Tower of Song … The post Leonard Cohen,…
Thinking of my grandfather, the Canadian Army Engineer
On the eve of Remembrance Day I am thinking of my maternal grandfather, Lawrence Anthony Bradley, who served as an engineer with the Canadian Army in England during the Second…
‘You Want It Darker’– Leonard Cohen, Singer, Writer, Poet-Dead at 82
Singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen died on Thursday at age 82, the Rolling Stone reports. Sony Music Canada, Cohen’s label wrote in a Facebook post: It is with profound sorrow…
David Suzuki: Extinction crisis signals that it’s time to change course
A new comprehensive report points to a potential human-induced wild-animal population “extinction crisis unlike any since dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.” David Suzuki helps us make sense of it…
Has Trump Committed Treason?
The National Observer’s Sandy Garrosino, journalist, entrepreneur and former Crown Attorney, certainly thinks so. America, you have been plunged into crisis, and so has the entire world. Do not normalize…
Brace Yourself. This Is Hard to Take.
With all the endless political lipflap about keeping global warming under 2 degrees Celsius or 1.5C or 3C In a paper in the journal Science Advances, said the actual range…
Ever Heard of GMACCC?
Move over Sierra Club, here come the generals. It’s the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change, an organization made up of retired and serving military leaders. They’ve got a…
More From The Conservative Braintrust
Well, we know what an abomination Kellie Leitch is as a Conservative leadership hopeful, but what about Brad Trost? The pool, it would seem, is very, very shallow: Recommend this…
On LNG, B.C. Manages to Out-Trump Even Donald Trump
By Andrew Nikiforuk for The Tyee. Every day, methane promoters in British Columbia’s government manage to out-trump Donald Trump. The hoopla over the $1.6-billion Woodfibre LNG terminal, which will industrialize…
On LNG, B.C. Manages to Out-Trump Even Donald Trump
By Andrew Nikiforuk for The Tyee. Every day, methane promoters in British Columbia’s government manage to out-trump Donald Trump. The hoopla over the $1.6-billion Woodfibre LNG terminal, which will industrialize…
The Future of USDS: Trump, civic tech and the lesson of GDS
Across Washington, the country, and the world, the assumptions people have about various programs, policies and roles have been radically altered in the last 12 hours with the victory of…
Calgary Homeless Foundation’s Research Agenda
The Calgary Homeless Foundation (CHF) has just released its updated Research Agenda (which I co-authored). CHF is a non-governmental organization that disburses funding to non-profit organizations in Calgary to help…
Orgreave: Winning the battle means winning the war
Photo by Rex Shutterstock Last week, British Home Secretary Amber Rudd dismissed a thirty-year campaign for an official inquiry into the events of the 1984 Battle of Orgreave, where police…