The Ethics of Wikileaks
Wikileaks, and other information repositories like it, raises some interesting ethical problems. To date, Wikileaks has pretty much taken a wholesale approach to the information that comes its way –…
2016
The Ethics of Wikileaks
Wikileaks, and other information repositories like it, raises some interesting ethical problems. To date, Wikileaks has pretty much taken a wholesale approach to the information that comes its way –…
Cultural appropriation is a toxic concept. (repost)
If the title of my article alone makes you wanna write me off right off the bat, and makes you decide not to read my article then that is your…
Burning Down The Island
Andrew Coyne writes that probably Donald Trump will not be elected president. That does not mean, however, that the result will be salutary: The damage he has done just by…
Saturday Photo: Klimt Weather
Didn’t have a camera with me, so you’ll have to believe me: yesterday was a marvelous Klimt-coloured afternoon. Looking up de Maisonneuve toward the Quartier de Spéctacles, the trees on…
Saturday Photo: Klimt Weather
Didn’t have a camera with me, so you’ll have to believe me: yesterday was a marvelous Klimt-coloured afternoon. Looking up de Maisonneuve toward the Quartier de Spéctacles, the trees on…
Donald Trump and the Demonic Song of the Religious Right
Despite Donald Trump's abominable record of spiritual and fleshy corruption, the religious right in the U.S. still worships at his feet.And are willing to forgive him his trespasses, in return…
Hillary Clinton, James Comey and the FBI Coup D’Etat
If Hillary Clinton loses the election to Donald Trump, it will be largely due to the FBI director James Comey's decision to inform Congress that another batch of Clinton's e-mails…
Those who forget the past…
Those who forget the past are going to screw up our future. Those are not the exact words of the old cliché but they certainly fit. This occurred to us…
Your nightly #USelection #USpoli Jeff numbers
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National Caregivers Month: The Third Pillar is Patience
Patience. We learn it the hard way in caregiving. In this break-neck-speed society, caregivers are like student drivers, always trying to put our foot on the gas, but with ‘fate’,…
Heron With Still Life
Taken at Parc des Rapides a few weeks ago.
The Paris Agreement Is Now In Effect. In Canada You’d Never Know
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s performance at the UN Climate Summit in Paris last December wooed and amazed the international community. Fresh off the election circuit, Trudeau proudly proclaimed, “Canada is…
Ministerial Panel on Kinder Morgan Pipeline Actually Nails It
Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline proposal cannot proceed without a serious reassessment of its impacts on climate change commitments, indigenous rights and marine mammal safety. That was the conclusion of…
The Paris Agreement Is Now In Effect. In Canada You’d Never Know
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s performance at the UN Climate Summit in Paris last December wooed and amazed the international community. Fresh off the election circuit, Trudeau proudly proclaimed, “Canada is…
Young Canadian Eco-Terrorists Occupy Cathy McKenna’s Office. Terrorists Subdued by Overwhelming Wave of Weasel Words.
Look at these fiendish little bastards. These murderous eco-anarchists occupied EnviroMin, Dame Cathy’s office. They protested in response to Kinder Morgan president Ian Anderson’s claim that scientists are still debating…
Ministerial Panel on Kinder Morgan Pipeline Actually Nails It
Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline proposal cannot proceed without a serious reassessment of its impacts on climate change commitments, indigenous rights and marine mammal safety. That was the conclusion of…
Torkil Lauesen on Politics, Struggle, and The Global Perspective
In the 1970s and 80s, Torkil Lauesen was a member of a clandestine communist cell which carried out a series of robberies in Denmark, netting very large sums which were…
Musical interlude
Electrostatic – Duality (Fingertwister Remix)
Misrepresentation of Greens’ Position on Trade Smacks of Desperation
The following has been submitted to the Sudbury Star in response to a column by Michael Den Tandt published in the print version of the Star (referenced below) and online…