https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/torrance-california-bowling-alley-shooting-1.4967245 Wow! The killers must have been them there migrant women and children from Central America. I mean, Americans never shoot each other._________________________________________________________________ For the last couple of days, I’ve…
Fossil fuel promoters had either not read the FCA judgment, or reject it for their own reasons. Many of these people applauded when a court jailed opponents of Trans Mountain…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the freshest Democrat to hit the White House, is making headlines for mimicking the dance sequence from The Breakfast Club back in college, and wanting to raise marginal…
Why does Canada support war criminals? Why does Ottawa support regimes that routinely commit war crimes and crimes against humanity? Saudi Arabia is a blatant example with its slaughter of…
My name is Jarrod Shook. I am a writer, student, poet, activist, and, for the last twelve years, a number: 892083E. I suppose there isn’t anything exceptional about being a…
Justin Trudeau has been promising a carbon tax for ages. For the past several months a gaggle of provincial leaders, sitting and soon to be sitting, has been raising a…
Photo by J P Davidson The acquittal of Gerald Stanley on charges of second-degree murder last February precipitated a wave of public protest. People watched as the criminal justice system…
Is he a motherfucker, too? For sure. He’s an asshole and a motherfucker. Those are just the facts. So, here’s the song my band did about him. It’s catchy. Sing…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Dennis Gruending writes about the difference between genuine populism focused on the interests of the public at large, and the discriminatory politics of…
The holiday is almost over: for more than a week I’ve ended each day thinking it was Sunday, but it hasn’t been, of course. Not I haven’t been able to…
Art Cullen is from Iowa. That’s Steve King country. And, even though King proudly waves his white nationalist credentials, Trump’s war on Mexican migrants isn’t playing well there: In Storm…
In choosing a direction for Ontario liberals, we should look backwards only enough to ensure that the freedom of the individual is still the core concern. Conservatism, neoconservatism and neoliberalism…
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Dec. 30, 2018. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
The Agenda has a video with Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist. I watched it with my kids, and we had a good discussion about it. Haidt published a book, The Coddling…
Since Ms. Goldy has some hefty legal fees that she needs to pay off in a relatively short amount of time, she has taken to the Internet to beg ask…
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Short response to a questionnaire. 1. What is Digital Literacy Digital literacy is a type of literacy, specifically, the type of literacy that arises in the digital context. By ‘the…
Harry Leslie Smith, who sometimes called himself “the world’s oldest rebel,” died in late November 2018. I was unable to acknowledge his passing on wmtc at the time. Smith, a…
As always, I (a) have plans, and (b) know that the plans never survive very long. That’s OK; I include options and backups in my plans, and I’m always ready…
In my last post I looked at the way Andrew Scheer has been bombarding Canadians with anti-carbon tax propaganda.And lying like only a climate change denier and Con clown could,…
