May They Inspire Us All
Their voices, I hope, are growing too loud to be ignored any longer: Recommend this Post
March 2018
When "Balance" Really isn’t Balanced: An Example of Right-Wing Media Bias
Have you ever noticed a bias against climate change science in many of Canada’s newspapers? I’ll give you a great example I saw recently in the Edmonton Sun in a…
When "Balance" Really isn’t Balanced: An Example of Right-Wing Media Bias
Have you ever noticed a bias against climate change science in many of Canada’s newspapers? I’ll give you a great example I saw recently in the Edmonton Sun in a…
When "Balance" Really isn’t Balanced: An Example of Right-Wing Media Bias
Have you ever noticed a bias against climate change science in many of Canada’s newspapers? I’ll give you a great example I saw recently in the Edmonton Sun in a…
I Want You to Do Us Both a Favour
Please, read this. If you’ve got the time, check this out.
AVALANCHE !!!
The Cambridge Analytica scandal has buried the news this past week, a lot like an avalanche. Having followed, and written about, this story for almost a year even I found…
Saturday Photo: When Will the Winter End?
The little deer have been out in the cold all winter, part of a Christmas installation, I think. But right now even they must be wondering when the winter will…
On Using Straw Man Arguments To Support "Conversion Therapy"
If you have been living under a rock for some time, you may not have noticed the uproar over so-called "conversion therapy" techniques. They have been declared unethical by the…
Hijacking The Internet
Jonathan Freeland writes that the Cambridge Analytica story reveals that the rich and the powerful have hijacked the internet. It was not supposed to be this way: In its infancy,…
Lonnie James. Um, who?
So, Sam Sutherland wrote a great book about Canadian punk rock a few years back, called Perfect Youth. It’s really good. You can get it here. Chris Walter this year…
The March For Our Lives And The Revolt Of The Young
They were still building the stage yesterday evening as the sun went down on Washington.But today hundreds of thousands of students and their supporters will be there taking part in…
Andrew Scheer’s Shameful Contempt for Parliament
Andrew Scheer was without a doubt the worst Speaker of the House of Commons in modern Canadian history.A Speaker so biased, so incompetent, and so depraved, that he allowed his…
To be murdered in Mali.
Our government wants us to send some Canadians in harms way in Mali in West Africa. As the country with the highest mortality rate for peace keepers, we are not…
Musical interlude
Big Wreck – Come What May
How a Kid From Victoria May Become Trump’s Worst Nightmare
If Donald Trump isn’t disparaging something as “fake news” does that make it real? Ordinarily Trump meets scandal head on, denouncing adversaries as liars and media outlets who run their…
Former Playmate of the Year Dishes on Dirty, Dirty Donnie Trump
Seriously, the 45th president of the United States of America, has the sexual appetites of a goat. He cheated on his first wife with a woman who became his second.…
Elizabeth May Arrested Over Justin Trudeau’s Damned Pipeline
She should be an example to us all. There is a place for civil disobedience. The Kinder-Morgan pipeline is that place. Green Party leader, Elizabeth May, along with NDP MP,…
Ministers of the faith #11
These goofy drawings seem to come out of fooling about with some new tool in some new app. Test the tool, see what kind of marks it makes, scribble something…