Birds Provide Japanese Train Design
Yesterday a Japanese train company apologized for running 20 seconds ahead of schedule. How did Japanese trains get so fast? The answer for how their famous bullet trains move so…
2017
Media roundup: neo-Nazi rag gets charged for promoting hate
Best part of yesterday: our kids said they’re proud of us. Second-best part: Andrew brought his months-old son into the office. But it was a wonderful day, and a long…
Diminished democracy of Justin’s Liberals.
In George Orwell’s 1984, new history was written and old history incinerated. The old think and the new think were not allowed to co-exist. Nowhere is that thinking more obvious…
Is Andrew Scheer the New Jason Kenney?
When we last left Andrew Scheer he was walking through a quiet suburb looking like a dazed Forrest Gump, or a weirdo trying to pick up women.And now we know…
Ronny Cameron Continues To Promote "White Genocide" Trope
The October 21 "Trudeau Must Go" rally organized by Ronny Cameron in Nathan Phillips Square started off very shaky, but as a result of groups such as the Northern Alliance…
Bill 24 passes, making it hard for Alberta schools to obstruct gay-straight alliances and illegal to out members to their parents
PHOTOS: Alberta Education Minister David Eggen, whose Bill 24, An Act to Support Gay-Straight Alliances, was passed by the Alberta Legislature yesterday. Below: UCP Leader Jason Kenney, former Alberta Liberal…
Rick Mercer on Jason Kenney’s Cowardly War on Children
As I'm sure you know, the bloated bigot Jason Kenney is waging war on LGBT children. Again.Claiming that his opposition to Alberta's Bill 24, that is designed to protect gay…
James Sears and Leroy St. Germaine Arrested and Hotel Cancels on Paul Fromm
It seems that this has been in the works for some time but the hammer fell today: Your Ward News editor, publisher charged with promoting hatred By ANNIE ARNONE Staff…
The Real Goal of Open Educational Resources
1. The Goal of Open Access David Wiley says, “The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” In this he’s…
B.C. Flooding Farmland for Site C is Economic Folly
As many countries move away from big hydro projects, B.C.’s government must decide whether to continue work on the Site C dam. The controversial megaproject would flood a 100-kilometre stretch…
Nov. 15: Thieving Billionaires.
The strike of teachers at Ontario community colleges is attracting surprisingly little attention from most Canadian news media – and what attention there is is largely superficial. The basic stats…
Where my grandson baits me with a Norm joke
While agonizingly reading this eight page book about the Lego Batman movie and all of it’s characters, for the umpteenth time, my seven year old grandson turns to me and…
City seeks Community Panel to guide decision making on new arterial through False Creek Flats
November 15 2017 “As the City has moved through the alignment exploration process for an arterial and overpass in False Creek Flats, it’s become apparent that all of the options…
Deal With Dark Money PACs Before Any Bye-Election Call
So Mr. Kenney, the leader of the United Conservative Party has a chance to get a seat in the Alberta Legislature through a bye-election, with the retirement of one of…
Deal With Dark Money PACs Before Any Bye-Election Call
So Mr. Kenney, the leader of the United Conservative Party has a chance to get a seat in the Alberta Legislature through a bye-election, with the retirement of one of…
Thinking about how cis men can and should be speaking publically about sexual violence
I’ve been thinking a lot in the last month about how cisgender men can and should be speaking publically about sexual violence and gender oppression. I’ve been thinking about this…
Deal With Dark Money PACs Before Any Bye-Election Call
So Mr. Kenney, the leader of the United Conservative Party has a chance to get a seat in the Alberta Legislature through a bye-election, with the retirement of one of…
Theatre Of The Absurd
Any facile defence of Roy Moore’s creepy predilections has to be regarded thus. His attorney, Trenton Garmon, even tried to draw Canadian Ali Velshi into the fray. Recommend this Post
Catherine McKenna Says Canada Has a Climate Plan. Prove It.
By Ross Belot for iPolitics. “The first thing you have to do is have a plan; you have to implement your plan, and then you have to ratchet up ambition.…
Today in Extinction News
What a week it’s been on the mass extinction front. It began with an official US delegation to the Bonn climate summit that tried to turn it into a fossil…