What’s wrong with local media?
“It’s about trust. Our relationship with our readers is built on transparency, honesty and integrity.” So opens the front-page piece in this weekend’s Connection, titled in all-caps, “Local News Needs…
2018
Where I spent my afternoon
…making Chad, Kathleen and Travis look good. Pundits panel at @OREAinfo #orpc18 moderated by @Travisdhanraj with @kinsellawarren @kathleenmonk and @hckosovogta provided great insights and natural rapport.@kinsellawarren tells it like it…
We’ve Got a Neoliberalism Problem and It Will Control Us If We Don’t Tame It.
When Thatcher, Reagan and Mulroney coaxed us to board the neoliberal train, very few of us realized it would carry us to authoritarianism, inequality and perhaps even fascism. Yet as…
Of Course He Doesn’t Believe It
The White House picked their moment, Friday afternoon of the Thanksgiving Day weekend, to release their own government’s Fourth National Climate Assessment. The Trump White House wanted the report buried,…
Things Can Change Overnight – Wise Law, Employment Lawyers, Toronto
“Things can change overnight in any workplace…” – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Alberta’s Bitumen Pits are a Racket and We’ve All Been Sucked In. A Made-by-Conservatives Fiasco.
You’ve probably seen how the mob will takeover a small but profitable business, bleed it dry and then split, leaving the empty, ruined hulk a dead loss for out-of-pocket creditors.…
I Said It Would Come to This. Those Bastards Are Planning Again!!
Our cousins across the pond, a.k.a. “the Brits”, are planning for climate change. Not 1.5 or even 2 degrees Celsius but 4 degrees Celsius of warming and what that would…
Connectivism and Language Learning
This is in response to the following question from a student in Iran: I am going to start an academic project on the application of connectivism in the context of…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Robinson Meyer rightly criticizes the Trump administration for trying to bury a devastating national climate assessment on Black Friday. – David Leonhardt discusses…
Alberta the Ugly and the Toxic Trudeau Haters
I don't know when Alberta first became the vile hate mongering place it is today. Maybe it was before my time.Or maybe ten years of the greasy oil pimp Stephen…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of November 26, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 26, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: CNN asks for hearing after Trump threatens to revoke Acosta’s press pass…
Alberta Dishonours Itself
As much as I may strive to be a critical thinker, sometimes things happen that tempt me to succumb to certain stereotypes. Take, for example, the notion that many Albertans…
Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau hate each other’s guts. And that makes sense.
Photo credit: Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford, seen together in happier times. That’s what newspaper editors always write when publishing a photo of a couple who have (a) just announced…
the move west: day seven: calgary alberta to sicamous british columbia
It’s very exciting to be past the mountains and in BC! We’re having a really good time. It feels like we’re on some kind of weird vacation where we don’t…
From Freedom To Fascism
Chris Hedges writes that neoliberalism has always been an absurd idea: Neoliberalism as economic theory was always an absurdity. It had as much validity as past ruling ideologies such as…
Would you pay the Montreal ad agency Cossette $500,000 for a logo?
The government of Canada did. For the half-million bucks, they got the logo and a name and some letterhead, apparently. For – and this is the part that should make…
Please no
They let me write another thing: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/worst-christmas-gifts-1.4917150
Biting the hand with the handouts.
We have warned Justin Trudeau repeatedly that those so-called independent senators are going to bite him on the bum. Blame him for all those Christmas presents that Canada Post cannot…
Alberta politicians need to tread carefully when they comment on the coming job losses at GM Canada in Oshawa
We don’t yet know why General Motors Corp. has decided to walk away from its last auto-assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont., which CTV reported last night the Detroit-based company will…
There Really Is Life After Hate Part V
ARC continues the series from our regular contributor. Other articles in the series can be found here: Status of ARC Collective Onward There Really Is Life After Hate Part I:…