Why Are The Cons Supporting The Language Bigots in Quebec?
As we all know Erin O'Toole is growing more and more desperate. His newser this morning was a horror show. He's lying like a thief, his polls are tanking, his…
2021
Council Rewards Its Friend. Again.
Our council has found yet another way to reward its friend, despite the recommendations in the report from the Saunderson Vindictive Judicial Inquiry (aka the SVJI) warning about “apparent” conflicts…
Another Example of Why Candidate Vetting Matters
As someone who was blessed to work on Parliament Hill for close to a decade, there are certain things that I have come to appreciate over time that I might…
Is "Jesus Fever" Finally Breaking in America?
America’s Old Testament Taliban, a.k.a. Christian evangelicals and fundamentalists, are finally losing ground. But they won’t go without a fight. Just 47% of the US population are members of a…
Seeing Through The Code
For decades, Republicans talked in code. Welfare meant help to people of colour. Opposition to communism really stood for help to the military-industrial complex. Then they elected Donald Trump, who…
People Share What They Changed Their Attitude to Unions
In America anti-union sentiment is strong due to the marketing efforts of large business owners that don’t like paying workers. Amazon’s anti-union efforts are a great example of this. In…
My latest: Hitler, Hillier and hate
What would Hitler do? That’s what preoccupies Randy Hillier, apparently. Hillier is a member of the Ontario legislature. He doesn’t belong to any political party, because Doug Ford kicked him…
Talking the Third Wave of COVID-19 with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Lindsay Maskell & Jason Lietaer for the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the latest on the third wave…
Trudeau building bridges in Quebec.
It is rare that prime minister Justin Trudeau would be considered best friends with Quebec premier François Legault. It is just that timing is everything in politics. If Trudeau’s liberals…
What happens now to Alberta’s ethically tainted K-6 social studies curriculum, found to be ‘rife with plagiarism’?
What happens now that everyone knows the authors of the Kenney Government’s hurriedly revised kindergarten-to-Grade-6 social studies curriculum plagiarized significant sections of the document from a variety of sources? In…
Interview with the Guelph Back-Grounder: On Teaching Critical Thinking
In early February, just before immersing myself into the current quad of online teaching, a friend of a friend interviewed me for a local independent journal. I thought it would…
The Shifting Ground – The Migration Planet and Oopsie, War by Miscalculation
If you listen closely enough you might hear the faint thunder of their footsteps even from half a world away. What you’re hearing is the telltale sound of the Migration…
“The countries applying the Zero COVID strategy have experienced far less social and economic deterioration than other countries.”
Canada Is One Big Pandemic Response Experiment. It Proves ‘Zero COVID’ Is Best So concludes a major French study that scanned many nations. Andrew Nikiforuk – TheTyee.ca Tyee contributing editor…
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn leads independent booksellers fiction bestseller list for week ended March 28
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, March 28, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Corrupt Doug Ford government siding with big business interests and hurting ordinary Ontarians on Covid, Highway 413 and most everything else
Considering Doug Ford and the Ford family’s criminal history, is it any surprise that Ford’s Progressive Conservative government would be up to its eyeballs in corruption? This exhaustive investigation by…
Talking the Third Wave of COVID-19 & Mark Carney on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Lisa Kirbie. We discussed the Third Wave of COVID-19 hitting across…
Let’s Live in Mushrooms – It’ll be Fungi
Our current selection of building materials tend to be carbon intensive and can have long lasting unhealthy impacts on humans. This issue (and others) have led some to look into…
Stoicism: A Philosophy of Powerlessness
Stoicism is recently faddish and in vogue, but it is fashionable only to those who don’t understand it. It is not surprising that Stoicism is attractive to many people now,…
CD editorial board: Statement on the resignations
This is a statement by a majority of the members of the Canadian Dimension editorial board regarding the resignations of several members last month. A dissenting view by CD founder…