On the Covington Catholic School Incident
The best part of this issue, if there can be a good part, where a bunch of high school boys surrounded Nathan Phillips to get a little kick from exercising…
The best part of this issue, if there can be a good part, where a bunch of high school boys surrounded Nathan Phillips to get a little kick from exercising…
I believe there is an ancient Chinese proverb that goes: don’t mess with China. China, a country we are trying desperately hard to establish firm trading ties with, is still…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Penney Kome writes about the importance of treating poverty as a social disease rather than a purely individual circumstance. And Jackie Esmonde…
My week on Twitter : 2.05K Mentions, 160K Mention Reach, 6.65K Likes, 1.37K Retweets, 1.28K Replies. See yours with https://t.co/TQhKFs0QZY pic.twitter.com/9R6Sn7SqXo — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 20, 2019
Had an opportunity the other day to measure the mood of local liberals after the humiliation of last June’s provincial election. It was the annual meeting of the provincial party…
The $6,000 administrative penalty levied against the Canadian Taxpayers Federation for failing to register as a third-party advertiser under Alberta’s election financing law is a long-overdue official recognition of the…
At the moment it’s minus 23 Celsius, and it’s supposed to start snowing soon. Big winter storm coming, danger of frost bite according to Environment Canada. Typical January weather in…
I posted this challenge on social media recently. This is what we do to be sociable: play online games and forward memes. Discussing the world and screaming into the void…
It’s happening all around you – in front of you, behind you, on both sides, above your head, beneath your feet. It’s happening on land, in our seas and in…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Linda McQuaig writes that Canada’s federal government should look at buying the soon-to-be-vacated GM plant in Oshawa to begin production of electric vehicles.…
A series of ten Buddhist drawings make up what are known collectively as the Ten Oxherding Pictures or sometimes just as the Ten Bulls. Each one graphically illustrates a stage…
There’s one seed left. The Agenda talked with Michael Mann and a few others in the field about “Burnout and Despair: Studying the Climate” Mann focused on the many ways…
There’s likely going to be an election before Victoria Day. If – by some miracle – the Liberals manage to win the Topsail-Paradise by-election next week you could be at…
Social media are a trap just waiting for the unwary politician. While I have tested some of the major social media apps, I try to stay away from them like…
It shouldn’t surprise us, I suppose, that Derek Fildebrandt has publicly gone all Charlton Heston on us. I speak, of course, of the recently rebranded Freedom Conservative Party leader’s Hestonesque…
During the years I’ve been working on the blog there have been a few characters that have stuck out not only for their racist, antisemitic, homophobic, and/or Islamophobic views, but…
Let me set the scene. The year is 1946. The United States is deeply segregated. The birth of the civil rights movement that would begin as African-American soldiers returned home…
Metric – The Shade
In my last post I looked at how Andrew Scheer had been caught accusing the United Nations and Justin Trudeau of trying to erase Canada's borders.With what turned out to…