"WOULD YOU LIKE HAVING YOUR PRIVACY INVADED?" "AT THIS POINT, MY DEAR!!!!!"
NOTHING TO HIDE? Privacy is the right for the self. Those who steal it from you, either by force, deceipt or any other means, with flawed justifications and abusive power,…
2016
Time to share the pain and stop wasting taxpayers’ dollars on elite private and cherry-picking charter schools
PHOTOS: A typical Alberta charter school class, at least as imagined by supporters of the expensive idea. Actual charter and private school students in 2016 may not appear exactly as…
Prior to the University of the West Indies gala
…the wife poses with our attack dogs, Satan and Lucifer.
The digital era: music, books, TV, video and games all doing fine
But one sector has been hit particularly hard by the new era. Can you guess what it is?
April 2: a child in Yemen. And you and me.
Yesterday evening, I watched BBC News. It opened with some of the most dreadful footage I have ever seen. It was of the children of Yemen, one of the poorest…
Kathleen Wynne’s Spouse Could Be Benefiting From Recent Changes to Autism Services In Ontario
(Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Spouse Jane Rounthwaite Worked as a Consultant in Autism Services While Parents Fought Government in Court in 2006) As the world celebrates Autism Awareness Day, parents…
Report: How the Right to Deny the Existence of God is Under Threat Globally
Via, the Independent, How the right to deny the existence of God is under threat globally:Atheists and humanists are increasingly being targeted as distinct minorities in “hate campaigns” across the…
Report: How the Right to Deny the Existence of God is Under Threat Globally
Via, the Independent, How the right to deny the existence of God is under threat globally: Atheists and humanists are increasingly being targeted as distinct minorities in “hate campaigns” across…
Report: How the Right to Deny the Existence of God is Under Threat Globally
Via, the Independent, How the right to deny the existence of God is under threat globally:Atheists and humanists are increasingly being targeted as distinct minorities in “hate campaigns” across the…
Report: How the Right to Deny the Existence of God is Under Threat Globally
Via, the Independent, How the right to deny the existence of God is under threat globally:Atheists and humanists are increasingly being targeted as distinct minorities in “hate campaigns” across the…
Doctors More Dangerous Than Guns!
TO BE TAKEN WITH A GENEROUS PORTION OF SALT Doctors (A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000. (B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are…
Clean Power Remains a Major Challenge for Remote First Nations
Part two of a two-part series from The Tyee. Read the first part of this story: B.C. First Nation’s Four-Decade Fight for Diesel-Free Clean Energy Caught in Bureaucratic Limbo. By…
Why are we still discussing the TPP?
Has anybody actually read the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement? I presume the negotiators have. And no doubt a host of corporate lawyers. But have any of our politicians read it?…
Why are we still discussing the TPP?
Has anybody actually read the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement? I presume the negotiators have. And no doubt a host of corporate lawyers. But have any of our politicians read it?…
Why are we still discussing the TPP?
Has anybody actually read the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement? I presume the negotiators have. And no doubt a host of corporate lawyers. But have any of our politicians read it?…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- GOOD Magazine neatly sums up what the world would look like on the scale of 100 people - and how patently unfair wealth inequality…
A Modest Proposal
No, we're not going to be eating babies. Sheesh. What I had in mind was to switch the way our governments have saddled the country with globalized free trade deals.…
Stuff Still Happens, week 13: Horror in Lahore; more Trumpism
Remember the horrible attack last week in Belgium? Of course you do; it’s still in the news. But on Easter Sunday, there was another terrorist attack that was worse by…
How Would You Like a Lovely Sheepskin Coat?
Redundant. When I worked at a Bermondsey school in London in the late 60s, the famed Surrey Docks that had made Britain rich since the days of Elizabeth I, were…
Saturday Photo: Bougainvillea, or a Plant from Away
It's not often that my bougainvillea blooms, but this year it has. Not sure why. Certainly it's not because it's received a great deal of sun. The gray, rainy weather…