Could you imagine being Dr. Shahab right now?After standing alongside @PremierScottMoe through this health crisis and then following a racist attack, Moe refuses to condemn the attack by pussyfooting around…
After being declared COVID-19 free last June, New Zealand is ever-so-cautiously moving toward reopening its watery borders to some international travel. With Australia, that is. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda…
A couple of months after Mr Kenney lost control of Covid-19, he lost control of his party. Consequently on Dec 13 Albertans find themselves here: our covid testing system is…
Once more, it’s time for citizens to rise to defend the forests. North Cowichan Council is holding a critical budget meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 15, including the forests. After almost…
We’ve recently been told that next semester, starting in February, will operate the same way as this semester did: running quadmester terms with in-school students attached to each school in…
Portrait of Chinese President Xi Jinping at a protest in Hong Kong. Photo by Etan Liam/Flickr. At this time last year, I was traveling across the Chinese cities of Beijing,…
Yeah, I know, but I just wasted an hour of my life watching a TV show that supposedly had the greatest Christmas commercials this year and they were all pretty…
Joe Biden at Royal Missionary Baptist Church in Charleston, South Carolina, April 20, 2020. Photo from Flickr. Since the 1970s, US real wages have largely stagnated. After a century of…
Everywhere you go, people are more alike than they are different, and every society and every culture and nation have their challenges. Yet, at any given moment in time there…
…requires no commentary on my part: Overheard at a "freedom rally" in Regina… a day in the life of a journalist in 2020 I guess?♂️ pic.twitter.com/4sw9jOsGuS — Connor O'Donovan (@ConnODonNews)…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Jackson summarizes and discusses Lance Taylor and Ozlem Omer‘s new book showing how the combination of wage suppression and growing inequality…
Donald Trump is like the legendary wolverine that breaks into a trapper’s cabin, gorges himself on anything he can eat and then, before clearing out, pisses on the rest. Trump…
Like many writers, especially those of us who grew up before the digital age, I keep a notebook. I use it to capture ideas, capture thoughts about I’m reading, take…
Jennifer Rubin writes that the number of Americans who believe utter rubbish is astounding — and dangerous: A spate of surveys shows a significant majority of Americans (maybe 60 percent,…
There are issues that people will step up to and there are issues that cause them to smirk and back away. I was reading a very intelligent story the other…
Charley Pride is kissin’ angels, in the morning. The iconic country star passed away of COVID-19. #BREAKING: Groundbreaking Black country musician Charley Pride has died of #COVID19 complications at 86.…
Hi, I’m Stephen Downes videoing in from Casselman in Ontario, Canada. My talk today is called What’s Next for MOOCs. Now that might be a bit of a surprise for…
It was April 12, 1861 when the South Carolina militia attacked the US Army’s Fort Sumter, sparking the American Civil War. We might have thought this travesty was over when…
