The Manitoba provincial government’s proposed re-organization of K-12 education completely ignores the connection between poverty and educational outcomes. Photo from Twitter. The proposed re-organization of K-12 education in Manitoba being…
Assorted content to end your week. – John Michael McGrath discusses how Ontario (like so many other jurisdictions) has walked directly into a third wave, resulting in people dying for…
Nuclear technology does more than make powerful weapons. It also makes for powerful politics. It allows Kim Jong-un, ruler of a sordid little dictatorship, possibly the most backward nation on…
For a long time during this pandemic, Susan and I were in the “not eligible” age bracket for the COVID-19 vaccination (65-79 years old) here in Ontario. Why our age…
It’s not that I have anything against e-bikes. I think they are great for people who want to use them as basic transportation or for whom cycling would be difficult…
Some political pundits seemed surprised the other day that conservative leader Erin O’Toole was trying to build bridges to unions. Not all union members vote for new democratic party politicians.…
The 2021 PEF Student Essay Contest is now open! Calling all Canadian students anywhere in the world and all post-secondary students in Canada who are working on papers taking a…
The BC Government could have learned from hydropower disasters in Newfoundland and Labrador and Manitoba as those were unfolding. Spending went out of control on Muskrat Falls and Keeyask. Because…
Stories I’ve seen so far paint George Floyd as someone who needed to be taken down. Would the language used to describe a white person in a similar situation be…
I walk from Centretown from Hintonburg for lunch at Meat Press and a sweet desert from SuzyQ Donughts. Then it’s transit back home via the Ottawa LRT and a short…
spring comes and mail trickles in and trickles out as if written in blood winter’s talk hangs unresolved and useless as smoke and well-reasoned routines are questioned with a runaway…
We are happy to say that the original print run of J. Sakai’s The Dangerous Class and Revolutionary Theory: thoughts on the making of the lumpen/proletariat has sold out. Originally…
Alex scores an interview with the amazing Bad Nerves on the Havin’ A Chat Podcast – and there’s a Hot Nasties shoutout after the 50-minute mark!
Adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism weakens our collective fight against racism while posing a direct threat to academic freedom in Canada. Image by Stephen Melkisethian/Flickr. Over the last…
It was a boxing match, nine years ago last night, that many believe changed the course of Canadian history. The night the then Liberal MP Justin Trudeau took on the…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Michael Atkinson and Haizhen Mou discuss their new polling showing that Canadians are particularly concerned with climate change and good jobs as…
It’s another month, and another season, with snow melting (though also falling, as i type this), and as always, lots of possibilities of what the next season may bring. We…
So my renewal for this domain came up. I thought long and hard for whether to bother renewing it… since its obvious to all that my blogposting on this has…
So my renewal for this domain came up. I thought long and hard for whether to bother renewing it… since its obvious to all that my blogposting on this has…
It’s April Fools Day and in normal times it’s one of those days that I usually look forward to. The jokes and pranks and the social media hits and complete…
