Hallelujah! There has been a precipitous drop in the number of Americans who identify as evangelical Christians from 23 per cent of the population in 2006 to just 14 per…
“Same old, same old” used to convey monotony, something dull, repetitive and boring. Our same old, same old world is no longer. We may wish it wasn’t. Our world is…
When last we met – if you can call one person writing and another reading an actual meeting – I was discussing the more intriguing and downright weird names Albertans…
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Americans, or half of them, are descending into madness. This item from CNN explores the link between those who reject the idea that Joe Biden won last November and the…
Donald Trump isn’t the only one promoting the Big Lie. Trump’s former economics advisor Peter Navarro is trying to sell it too. Newsweek reports that: Navarro, one of the first…
We thought we knew you. You have disappointed us. When Canada needs you, where will you be? You are our green initiative. You are not the back of the hand…
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, July 11, 2021. The lists are compiled…
When I was a kid, my folks said I was a little slow to warm up to people and sometimes needed a nudge to interact. Then, in grade 11, we…
Angus Reid finds that the Liberal lead over the O’Toole Conservatives isn’t what it was even just two weeks ago. The Trudeau Liberals were comfortably ahead – so long as…
Without a connection rooted in trust with its electorate, the left must compete on terms similar to the other parties, with branding and ads and celebrity candidates. But these approaches…
Filmmaker and activist Avi Lewis speaks during the West Coast premier of This Changes Everything with his wife, Naomi Klein, September 25, 2015. Still image from YouTube. This article is…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Robert Booth and Heather Stewart report on Boris Johnson’s insistence on lifting COVID-19 protections even as case counts rise in the UK. And…
In my last column I highlighted incentives being offered by the Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL) for kids to read, and for teens to stay engaged in learning, through the…
Summer Reading Club is back, and it’s not just for kids. Children, teens, and adults can all find fun reading challenges – and prizes – at your library. Even infants…
Still catching up on posting my columns. The recent horrific discovery in Kamloops of the remains of 215 Indigenous children, buried in an unmarked mass grave, brought home the horrors…
After 75 years of life learning on this planet we call Earth the last 40 or so with a computer of one kind or another on my desk, almost 20…
After 75 years of life learning on this planet we call Earth the last 40 or so with a computer of one kind or another on my desk, almost 20…
Reclaiming Democracy In Canada – And Around The World
In the 1960s, there was a cultural awakening which spread rapidly around the world, and Chomsky is right in calling it both a cultural awakening, and also, an outbreak of…