Interesting Discussion Of Gendered Criticism Of The Selfie
There’s a lot more to a selfie than meets the eye (Salon) by Alicia Eler The moral panic around teen selfies is old fear dressed in new tech. Selfies aren’t…
September 2019
Sept 7: Not a good day. When was the last one?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/election-leaders-1.5260586 https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/secularism-law-1.5261713 There’s a lot that’s ugly about Canada as it faces a national election. The platforms of our Liberal and Conservative parties are ugly (and shallow and ignorant) to…
Ireland’s Historical Reliance On The Catholic Church For Social Welfare Service Provision Came With A High Human Cost – Abuse, Torture, Coverups
This article is an emotionally difficult read, but worth your time. Major trauma warning Ireland's hidden survivors (BBC) By Leanna Byrne The article illuminates attitudes, policies, practices, organisations, and cultures…
Ireland’s Historical Reliance On The Catholic Church For Social Welfare Service Provision Came With A High Human Cost – Abuse, Torture, Coverups
This article is an emotionally difficult read, but worth your time. Major trauma warning Ireland's hidden survivors (BBC) By Leanna Byrne The article illuminates attitudes, policies, practices, organisations, and cultures…
Ireland’s Historical Reliance On The Catholic Church For Social Welfare Service Provision Came With A High Human Cost – Abuse, Torture, Coverups
This article is an emotionally difficult read, but worth your time. Major trauma warning Ireland’s hidden survivors (BBC) By Leanna Byrne The article illuminates attitudes, policies, practices, organisations, and cultures…
Reanimate, Reimagine, Revisit, Repurpose
A lot has happened since 2011... I am repurposing this blog as a mode of personal and political expression. It will no longer be focused strictly on privacy, technology, and…
Reanimate, Reimagine, Revisit, Repurpose
A lot has happened since 2011... I am repurposing this blog as a mode of personal and political expression. It will no longer be focused strictly on privacy, technology, and…
Reanimate, Reimagine, Revisit, Repurpose
A lot has happened since 2011… I am repurposing this blog as a mode of personal and political expression. It will no longer be focused strictly on privacy, technology, and…
Alberta Is Now Absurta
What’s going on in Alberta? Should we fear this on a national level?
Why "50 by 30" Matters This Year
Last year the IPCC warned of an urgent need to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent by 2030. Since then fossil fuel consumption and GHG emissions have increased…
Andrew Scheer, Hamish Marshall, and the Rebel Party
Ever since Andrew Scheer hired Hamish Marshall, he has never really had to explain why he would hire as his campaign manager a man who help found the hate mongering…
Andrew Scheer and the Economic Monster
As we all know Andrew Scheer would prefer to spend all his time trying to smear Justin Trudeau with his own unique brand of political pornography.But while that does get…
10 Years Ago: Crapple InPod
Can you not wait to buy Crapple’s new InPod with Dolbee 5.1 surround sound in your head, from advanced headphones that are actually inside your noggin’? They’ve found a way…
Regina’s Finest? The Dead South.
Definitely worth a listen.
Two Sides of The Same Coyne
Andrew Coyne looks at the Trudeau Conservatives and the Scheer Liberals, or is it the other way around? Does it matter? The two main parties, after all, could not be…
Excess
Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, looks at the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest and sees one thing, mankind’s lust for excess. Whether it’s vanishing fish stocks, exhausted farmland, emptied…
Social Justice
As an elected Green, I believe in the values of the global green movement. The Global Greens Charter identifies six guiding principles: Ecological wisdom Social justice Participatory democracy Nonviolence Sustainability…
Saturday Photo: The Connecticut River and Boundaries, Walrus Talk
The photo is of the Connecticut River which separate New Hampshire and Vermont. It’s just one example of how boundaries–arbitrary and otherwise–divide and influence people. In this case, the state…
It’s Going To Be Bruising
All signs are pointing to a knock down drag out election. Chantal Hebert writes: Based on Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer’s performances over the course of back-to-back sessions with the…