Sometimes It Doesn’t Go Their Way
Upon the re-election of Naheed Nenshi, the neoliberals have a message for Canadians who haven’t gotten with the program: Not everyone was happy about Naheed Nenshi being re-elected to a…
October 2017
Minimum transparency
According to BC’s Budget Transparency and Accountability Act, September 15 was the final day for BC Hydro to make public its quarterly report for the period ended June 30. It…
B.C. Regulator Finds Numerous Frack Water Dams Unsafe, At Risk of Failure
This article originally appeared on The Tyee. At least seven of 51 large dams built by the province’s shale gas industry in northeastern B.C. were not safe and required “enforcement…
Ivanka Be Sedated
SFH, meanwhile, offer this to our fellow punk rocker. Gabba gabba hey, punk grrrl!
Geothermal Would Create 15 Times More Permanent Jobs Than Site C, Panel Told As BCUC Hearings Draw to Close
Opportunities provided by 21st century renewables, such as geothermal, wind and solar, have either been ignored or the costs over-inflated in BC Hydro documents justifying construction of the Site C…
Exploring the Potential: Innovating Uses of Technology in Teaching and Learning
Don McIntoshAn Old Curmudgeon’s View of Technology in Education I put together a director of vendors of online learning products and services – more than 2000 products there, including hundreds…
Why did Scheer run away from his own press event?
Seriously. He did. Here’s the Globe: Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer abruptly ended a news conference and stopped taking questions from reporters on Monday when asked whether he was aware his…
The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be
John DanielOpen Education in a Closing World The end of WWII marked the emergence of a new world order maked by the universal declaration of human rights. By the end…
Now There’s an Idea
Brookings Institute fellow Ranj Alaaldin has a clever idea about how Trump can strike back against Iran, back the Iraqi Kurds in their independence struggle against the Shiite-controlled central government…
The morning after… Post-Election radio panel on the Ryan Jespersen Show
It was a late night watching the results come in last night, but I was up early this morning to join Ryan Jespersen‘s post-election panel discussion about yesterday’s municipal election…
Recipe For Hate mania strikes Ottawa!
I’m serious. Check out the reaction of these hundreds of total strangers to the news that Recipe For Hate – which Publisher’s Weekly called “riveting…Tension starts high and stays there…
Kids Will Be Kids
Even as they’re embarking on their 30s, our children can sometimes sugar coat things especially if they don’t want their to upset their parents. I have a daughter who lives…
Technology, Resources and Innovation
David Porter, Lena Patterson, Chris FernlundeCampus Ontario – Rethinking eCampus Ontario – owned by 45 universities and colleges in Ontario, funded by the provincial government As we move forward, tech…
On Embarrassment
Being bipedal animals with consciousness, humans have this propensity for remembering and obsessing, but other animals get embarrassed, too. I had a housemate, once, with a mean cat. At the…
A North Korean defector
North Korean defector Choi Seong-guk draws cartoons to convey life in the North and the challenges defectors face when they move to the South. (Saša Petricic/CBC) This certainly fits with…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Economist examines the latest research showing the amount of money stashed in tax havens is even higher than previously estimated. And…
World Conference in Online Learning – Opening Plenary
Opening Plenary Laura CzerniewiczChanging Pedagogies Two short stories about pedagogy: 1. There have been protests recently in South African universities. Interestingly, some of these have been about pedagogy. They demanded,…
Good Health Stems from Walking, Biking, and Transit
Regularly walking and biking are good for one’s health, but did you know taking public transit is too? That’s right just by not taking a car to work like most…
Time Is Running Out
If you want to know what future resistance looks like, Chris Hedges writes, take a good long look at what transpired at Standing Rock: Day after day, week after week,…
Truly, Madly, Deeply Deranged
That is the only appropriate description of that old deranged felon and adulterer/alleged rapist, (a.k.a., the standard hypocritical misconduct for the unhinged evangelical set) Jim Bakker. Not mentioning his time…