20 years ago Michael Goldhaber warned us about the complete dominance of the internet, increased shamelessness in politics, terrorists co-opting social media, the rise of reality television, personal websites, oversharing,…
I’m going to take Daniel Goldsmith’s excellent post Praxis and the Indieweb as a point of departure for this post. Like Goldsmith, I am a fan of the Indieweb, or…
This handsome boy is Boomer, the newest addition to our family. I saw him a couple of times outside the library, scrounging food. He was quiet and meek, friendly but…
Anyone having supervisory responsibility for the completion of a task will invariably protest that more resources are needed. Hacker’s Law of Personnel, coined by Andrew Hacker in The End of…
Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class Paul Embery Polity, 2021 The Labour Party’s dismal performance in the 2019 UK general election has generally been attributed to its…
The fish farms that proliferate along the BC coast under the auspices of the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans are devastating our marine environment. Salmon farming is wreaking ruin…
A dark day on Friendly Lane, Prince Edward Island, as the Supreme Court of Canada ends Mike Duffy’s quest for redress against the Senate and RCMP. Duffy was seeking $7.8…
For years Pierre Poilievre has been the loudest and most annoying Con attack beast in the House of Commons. A pension porker who learned his ugly trade on the knees…
The paragraph be below is from a post to this site something over a week ago. I keep thinking of the follo post from a reader with sympathy for the…
A lot of eyebrows were raised when Russia announced it had a Covid vaccine, the first to be available publicly. Fittingly the Sons of Lenin named it “Sputnik,” after the…
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With its latest lockdown, the Québec government has introduced authoritarian measures that are disproportionately affecting vulnerable people. Photo courtesy the Montréal Gazette/YouTube. On January 8, Québec entered a strict second…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Steven Lewis examines how Canada can and should learn from Australia’s success in controlling the coronavirus, while Robert Danich writes that conservative…
The case that House Managers presented yesterday — and will continue to present today — is a master class in good lawyering. E.J. Dionne writes that it is airtight: The…
There is some further thinking about the TVOntario program I watched last week on the polarization of Canada. A Quebec participant had others laughing when he made the comment that…
Was Jason Kenney channelling Marie Antoinette when he appeared in front of an Edmonton grocery store’s cake counter yesterday to announce a one-time $1,200 pandemic payment to front-line workers? Many…
It was with a strong sense of trepidation that I went to my latest meeting with the urologist, earlier this month. Although it was still rather too early to make…
(continued from part 1…) As we explore the accusations made against Marilyn Manson please keep in mind that the purpose here is to evaluate everything individually. With someone like Marilyn…
The Tories like nothing so much as eating their dead – after they’ve knifed them in the back. Diefenbaker was felled from within. So was Joe Clark. Andrew Scheer, ditto.…
Or, Why A Critical Reading of History Is Now Critically & Urgently Needed The details are important, but an understanding of the major patterns of history are even more important.…
