Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 2
In the previous segment I decided to create a course with modules and sections, and set up the modules. I’ll fill out the actual content of those modules over time.…
2018
If the Greens Can’t Stand for Election, Why Can’t They Stand for Principle?
I’m not sure what keeps Green Party membership grounded. Their party doesn’t stand a chance electorally. Justin Trudeau put paid to that when he reneged on electoral reform, ensuring that…
Your Choice – Does Humanity Survive or Perish?
The planet, Spaceship Earth, our one and only biosphere, is in real trouble and it’s mainly our doing. The question is do we keep doing what got us to this…
Why Would Stephen Harper Derail NAFTA Talks?
Is it possible that Stephen Harper is trying to derail NAFTA so that the Conservatives can return to power in 2019?
Take that, She-wolf of the Clueless
And congrats to Bernie, Richard, Evan et al. This is major. And wonderful. BREAKING: Bell Media / CP 24 decides not to run ads by Faith Goldy, an alt-right figure…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Patrick Kingsley points out how children are feeling the effects of the UK’s austerity, including by being driven into avoidable poverty. And…
New column day
Here, on the Frontier Centre for Public Policy’s unapologetic role in trying to minimize the harms of residential schools – to to mention otherwise undermining any attempt at truth and…
An Unreliable Narrator
In fiction there exists what is known as the unreliable narrator, which can be defined in this way: It is a character who tells the reader a story that cannot…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday September 27, 2018. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. View this post on Instagram A post shared by…
A Crazed Donald Trump Takes Aim At Canada. Again.
It had to be one of Donald Trump's most bizarre and deeply disturbing news conferences ever. It lasted for almost an hour and a half. Trump almost never stopped talking,…
If His Tongue Were Notarized
Having delivered a review of the province’s books — which took six weeks to complete — Doug Ford says that Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals were criminals. Martin Regg Cohn writes: Listen…
An Ontario Liberal speaks
She says it better than I ever could: I so loathe those people – the ones who (with Paul Martin) destroyed the Liberal Party of Canada in 2006, and the…
Getting elected in Toronto.
The ‘Hey Rube’ at Toronto city hall is over, for now. Candidates for the 25 wards are busy candidating. The next big event will be municipal election day on October…
Energy Fund Backed by Bill Gates Only Invests in Carbon Reduction
On of the richest people on the planet is sick of climate change and has launched a venture capital firm to slow down global warming. Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) funds…
UCP in damage control mode, its troll farm busy, in face of Edmonton Public School Board budget cuts analysis
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Opposition was in furious damage control mode yesterday after Edmonton Public Schools’ release of “hypothetical” estimates of four budget scenarios for what anticipated UCP cuts could…
Anne McGrath jumps into NDP nomination in Calgary-Varsity, Byron Nelson seeks UCP nod in Calgary-Bow
New Democratic Party stalwart Anne McGrath announced on social media today that she plans to seek her party’s nomination to run in Alberta’s next provincial election in the Calgary-Varsity district.…
Israel Palestine International Law Symposium
Earlier this month I attended and recorded the proceedings of the Israel Palestine International Law Symposium, held in Winnipeg September 7 – 9. While I thought I was better informed…
About that Trump press conference
…I just did a hit with Brian Lilley on CFRA about it. He asked me what I thought Donald Trump’s comments about Justin Trudeau meant. I asked Brian how many…
Finally
I have been clear. I condemn hate speech, anti-Semitism and racism in all forms- be it from Faith Goldy or anyone else. — Doug Ford (@fordnation) September 26, 2018
GREEN PARTY ANNOUNCES COMMITMENT TO PUBLIC WASHROOM ACCESS
MEDIA RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – SEPT 26, 2018 VANCOUVER, B.C. – The Green Party of Vancouver has announced a commitment to public washroom access across the city. Public…