Learn To Code Episode 1: Project 0: Unreal Playground
In episode 1 we begin building a simple level for prototyping code. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tn0IcRUOQc
2020
15 years of The Sir Robert Bond Papers #nlpoli
Today marks the 15th anniversary of The Sir Robert Bond Papers. The first post – 03 January 2005 – described the atmosphere at its birth but, most importantly, gave the…
Linda Silas, president of Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, announces bid to lead Canadian Labour Congress
Linda Silas, president of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions representing 200,000 nurses across Canada, formally announced today she will seek the presidency of the Canadian Labour Congress. This doesn’t…
Defending the Indefensible Left and Right
People of the left and, one would hope, also many on the right, look on with horror as Republican politicians unconditionally support their degenerate president. Trump once boasted “I could…
New Year Prediction – The New Veganism
Perhaps not this year, but I can see it coming as clear as the lighting in a laboratory clean room. It started with vegetarianism, a dietary preference to avoid eating…
Learn To Code Episode 0: Introduction and Setup
In episode 0 of Canadian Trends’ LearnToCode I talk about what the series is about and the approach that will be taken as well as go over the steps needed…
Jan. 2: It could be a very ugly year. Correction. It will be…
https://www.sciencealert.com/stanford-researchers-have-a-plan-to-tackle-the-climate-emergency?________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/02/australia-bushfires-tens-of-thousands-stranded-while-attempting-to-flee https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/02/australian-bushfire-crisis-global-figures-and-media-react-to-climate-emergency https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/02/a-warm-welcome-the-wildlife-visitors-warning-of-climate-disaster-aoe https://countercurrents.org/2020/01/australia-burns-fireworks-bush-fires-and-denial Not to worry. Premier Ford of Ontario and Premier Cheney of Alberta say it’s not happening. And they’re real smart. And this is the future,…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Nathan Robinson writes that there’s every reason for younger people – in the U.S. and elsewhere – to support the principle of…
Review: How to Do Nothing
A very thoughtful, very well-written book by an artist who lives in California's Bay Area. A self-proclaimed "field guide to doing nothing...
Balancing the Whip
Happy New Years and welcome to 2020 everyone. Over this holiday period it’s been a good time to take some time with family, reconnect and do some deeper thinking. We’ve…
Review: How to Do Nothing
A very thoughtful, very well-written book by an artist who lives in California’s Bay Area. A self-proclaimed “field guide to doing nothing as an act of political resistance to the…
Recycling your Christmas tree
Bring your tree for chipping, donate to charity Every year, City staff and Lions Club volunteers provide Christmas tree chipping events. After the trees are chipped, they are taken to…
McQuaig: Privatization poses an existential threat to Canada’s public wealth
The Sport and Prey of Capitalists: How the Rich Are Stealing Canada’s Public Wealth Linda McQuaig Dundurn, 2019 Author and investigative reporter, Linda McQuaig’s latest book offers a very readable…
What’s Old Is New
Andrew Nikiforuk writes that Jason Kenney has established his own Ministry of Truth. Kenney calls it the Canadian Energy Centre. Its job is to go after journalists who attack Alberta’s…
happy new year and new decade from wmtc
For the second year in a row, I didn’t even bother with the wmtc i hate christmas tradition. I didn’t see any shopping fervor, didn’t hear or see an onslaught…
happy new year and new decade from wmtc
For the second year in a row, I didn’t even bother with the wmtc i hate christmas tradition. I didn’t see any shopping fervor, didn’t hear or see an onslaught…
happy new year and new decade from wmtc
For the second year in a row, I didn’t even bother with the wmtc i hate christmas tradition. I didn’t see any shopping fervor, didn’t hear or see an onslaught…
The Battle for Equality
Illustration by German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist Thomas Nast, often considered to be the “Father of the American Cartoon”. Image obtained from Wikimedia Commons. We are living in a…
BDS as a way of resistance
Israeli West Bank barrier, Bethlehem. Photo by Magnus Höij (Flickr). Before I left the open-air prison that is Gaza for the first time eight years ago on my first speaking…
Liberals are not dead in Ontario.
It seems we do have a contest for the leadership of the Ontario liberals. While overshadowed by the Trudeau party in Ottawa, this Ontario group is starting to come together.…