By now it seems hard to deny that Faith Goldy is an anti-Semite: Her calling Jews “Democrat mega-donors.” Her referring to Richard Spencer’s Charlottesville statement, which calls for the exclusion…
“Can you imagine anything the scientists would say that would persuade the US administration that it needs to take more seriously?” Presenter Evan Davis puts that to former Trump adviser…
It strikes me as the height of naivete to expect something as foundationally amoral as a neoliberal government to recognize a “moral obligation to act” even on something as existential…
They’re already soiling their dainties down in Florida in fear of the arrival of Hurricane Michael later this week. Their climate change denier in chief, governor Rick Scott, calls it…
It's a really scary time for dudes right now. So I wrote a song about it. Go #vote friends! #TheResistance #1Thing @ACLU @WC4SJ #letsmakesomenoise pic.twitter.com/hz7E3xMRqR — Lynzy Lab (@mercedeslynz) October…
Two memes I found that put anew twist on the legend of KingArthur. There is a high level ofdiscontent with American-styledemocracy and the number ofmonarchists in the USA issurprisingly high…
“Bleat, bleat. Bleat, bleat.” That’s about as much sense as you’ll get out of Canada’s environment minister, Catherine McKenna. The latest and most worrisome report of the Intergovernmental Panel on…
-1. Getting Ready Connectivism is based on the idea that knowledge is essentially the set of connections in a network, and that learning therefore is the process of creating and…
Mark Mitchell has a post in Facebook in which he writes: Apparently, those of us who support ProRep are wrong to use facts and logic in our argument, when the…
A few of the apocalyptic headlines from the past few days: Final call to save the world from ‘climate catastrophe’ – BBC news Landmark UN climate report warns time quickly…
The time for pretending is over. World leaders have a “moral obligation to act” to avert the worst impacts of climate change and that’s going to take a huge and…
I have the basic structure of the course in place and now I want to fill it out with some content. The course starts in a couple of days and…
"… Carbon pricing is cited as the bare minimum first step to avoid catastrophe by the world's top climate scientists in the newly released IPCC report. BC has had a…
We are moving to Vancouver Island! As soon as I find a good library job there — which may be very soon — we are giving notice, packing up, and…
September is always a busy month for me, and typically I don’t get the luxury of reading the new significantly, but this time was different. It’s been a car crash…
The persistently optimistic, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, gives humanity twelve years to mend our ways. Within a dozen years, i.e. by 2030, the world must have massively curbed our…
It's Thanksgiving Day in Canada, and in this crazy screwed up world we do have a lot of things to be thankful for.We're a big, beautiful, still relatively young country.…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Simon Wren-Lewis notes the importance of including the working class among the groups identified as part of a progressive movement. And Gary Younge…
If, like me, you are on Facebook, I would like to alert you to a hoax currently circulating, one that I received in my Messenger this morning. The best thing…
E. J. Dionne doesn’t mince words. He writes in this morning’s Washington Post: The Supreme Court’s legitimacy is in tatters. Conservative forces in the country, led by the Republican Party,…
