The options for Mr. Trump.
Donald Trump has the media guessing. As America heads towards its November election, president Trump is watching his options narrow. As he just plays more and more golf, you cannot…
July 2020
Building on our successes #nlpoli
“First and foremost, be totally honest with the electorate,” former Premier Clyde Wells told Anthony Germain on CBC’s Sunday Edition last weekend. He was giving some general advice to the…
Failing the Easiest of Tests
This space has been a bit quiet for the past week as I’ve been taking some time to recharge my batteries, get outside in the beautiful air and see some…
Gun crazy
As a Father’s Day gift, my youngest son Blake took me to the Wild West Shooting Centre at West Edmonton Mall so we could share some father-son blasting time. During…
Again, Really? Wexit – or the "Prairie Plug"?
Don’t we have enough on our plates right now without this annoying Wexit nonsense? Apparently the folks at Abacus polling had too much time on their hands and decided to…
Responses to Pew on the Future and Ethics in AI
If you expect change, what do you think the “new normal” will be for the average person in 2025? What will have changed most? What will not change much at…
Canada Day 2020: Far-Right Rally Tries, Fails to Storm the Hill and Armed QAnon Believer Attempts to Enter Rideau Hall
With promises of thousands of people showing and multiple suggestions that there would be violence if they were opposed, a far-right rally which had been planned since shortly after the…
Everyone wins with bike-car compromise in Stanley Park
ADRIENNE TANNERVANCOUVERSPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAILPUBLISHED JULY 4, 2020Adrienne Tanner is a Vancouver journalist who writes about civic affairsThe last time I biked the seawall around Stanley Park, I…
Review: Sonic Agency
A book concerned with "positioning sound and its discourses in dialogue with contemporary struggles," that attempts to seek out "ethical and agent...
Review: Sonic Agency
A book concerned with “positioning sound and its discourses in dialogue with contemporary struggles,” that attempts to seek out “ethical and agentive positions or tactics” grounded in “experiences we have…
Found Letters from 1944: Frank and Ray and Johny
My daughter just found an old tin in the back of a cupboard. I have no idea where I got it, but it has two photos and two letters: Frank…
A Much-Needed Perspective
I don’t know about you, but I have always felt deeply uneasy about fervid professions of patriotism, especially the kind that Americans are given to. Their earnest hands over their…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Linda McQuaig writes about the Libs’ choice to use infrastructure programs primarily to generate massive returns for private investors, rather than ensuring…
Desk Professionals: Technology Standards and Standards development process
Standards and Compatibility DO matter (All true even when non regulation is crucial as in White spaces, white times...) Professor Robert Jay Lifton, American, psychiatrist chiefly known for his studies…
Desk Professionals: Technology Standards and Standards development process
Standards and Compatibility DO matter (All true even when non regulation is crucial as in White spaces, white times...) Professor Robert Jay Lifton, American, psychiatrist chiefly known for his studies…
Desk Professionals: Technology Standards and Standards development process
Standards and Compatibility DO matter (All true even when non regulation is crucial as in White spaces, white times…) Robert Jay Lifton, American psychiatrist chiefly known for his studies of…