Photos: Vermilion-Lloydminster Progressive Conservative PC MLA and former Tory cabinet minister Richard Starke. (Photo from Dr. Starke’s Facebook page.) Below: Alberta conservative rivals and temporary co-leaders, Brian Jean and Jason…
Stumbled on to this interesting little 16mm film made by a couple of Standford grad students in 1967. Some computer history and plenty of innuendo. Enjoy!
The threat of white supremacist terrorism is a constant in U.S. history, writes Shane Burley, author of the forthcoming book, Fascism Today: What It Is and How We End It.…
Are you curious to know the results of our Freedom of Information request for an updated budget and timeline for the $8.8 billion Site C dam project on B.C.’s Peace…
Former BC Liberal Premiers Christy Clark (Kris Krug/Flickr) and Gordon Campbell (Province of BC/Flickr) One of the biggest mistakes Barack Obama made was not doing more to expose George W.…
…but there is at least one police force in Ontario fighting hate. Well done, Peel.
Most media accounts will give you the impression Trump son-in-law, Jared Kushner, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee for two hours today, asserting that neither he nor anyone else involved…
Foreign Policy’s Thomas Ricks writes that the doubters were wrong and Orwell’s mistake was he got the year wrong. Harold Bloom wrote in 1987 that Orwell’s great novel of totalitarianism,…
The Gullibillies thought he was going to make America great again and he will, just not for them. Six months of Donald Trump has shown that the imperial president does…
Um, off by about six months, folks
We’re just a couple of weeks off from World Overshoot Day, 2017. That will mark the day on which humankind has exhausted an entire year’s supply of Earth’s natural resources.…
EFT, also called Tapping, is a great mind/body tool that’s been shown to alleviate stress and change stuck emotional patterns in our nervous system. In this video, Christine Penner Polle,…
The battle with climate change comes down to numbers. Countries joining the fight usually pledge to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by some percentage of what they were at some…
As we pivot to a new world of economic equality, we’re looking at the Universal Basic Income as a means of bringing us towards that very Star Trek place of…
Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of July 24, 2017. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, Wills, Estates,…
He’s loved of the distracted multitude,Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes.-Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 3 For a long time I have found little to fault in Justin…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 24, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: OJ Simpson faces good chance at parole in Nevada robbery Former House…
Assorted content to start your week. – The Star’s editorial board calls for Canada to take its poor ranking among other developed countries as a prod to action in building…
The largest railway system in the world runs in India and it consumes a lot of energy to run it. Back when oil was more expensive they started looking into…
A large portion of Donald Trump’s supporters, Chris Hedges writes, are Christian fascists. The data suggests that 81 percent of white evangelicals support him. And he has been delivering for…
