I Shop, Therefore I Am
First and foremost, how do you see yourself? Are you a citizen more than a consumer, or vice-versa? Are high-minded principles and vision your defining characteristic, or is how to…
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Sunday Afternoon Tea With Bertolt Brecht
A little something to share with those nearest and dearest who are disengaged, so to speak: Recommend this Post
A Day Of Rest
Once again in my neck of the woods, we are experiencing punishing cold, cold that is predicted to remain throughout the week, so it seems like a propitious time to…
A Guest Post From John B.
Click here to read an unflattering magazine profile of this ‘titan’. Yesterday afternoon, I wrote a brief post on Kevin O’Leary, the fatuous, obnoxious self-promoter the CBC, likely in its…
The Most Obnoxious Blowhard?
Many of you have probably already heard of this, but I can’t help but wonder if Kevin O’Leary is in some kind of competition with Donald Trump for the title…
Self-Interest Versus The Public Good
We Canadians talk a good game. We want our unemployed to be able to find jobs, we want those with the need to be able to readily access the social…
The Measure Of The Man
Sounds like Rick Mercer has the Harper cabal’s number: Recommend this Post
Want To Experience Faux Poverty On Your Next Holiday?
This seems so wrong on so many levels. Recommend this Post
Engaging Community: Some Thoughts From The Salamander
The other day I wrote a post about the Harper cabal’s systematic efforts to re-engineer Canadians’ critical thinking capacity through the gutting of science libraries and their resources. No books=no…
Like A Scab: Tim Hudak
Like a scab (not the metaphorical kind so beloved of the extreme right) that I can’t resist picking away at, once more Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak looms large.…
Ford Nation Probably Thinks This Is Their Idol’s Best Video Performance Yet
You decide. The video was taken early this morning. Recommend this Post
Refusing To Become What The Harper Government Wants Us To Be
While Stephen Harper’s trip to Israel is receiving wide domestic media coverage, coverage that I have been studiously avoiding out of deference to my at-times delicate sensibilities and constitution, the…
Fear And Loathing In Peace River
While the Harper cabal proceeds full-tilt with its tarsands advertising campaign, the details of which Canadians are being denied, a game of inconvenient truth versus consequences is being played out…
More Thoughts On The Minimum Wage
Although I have written several previous posts on the need to substantially increase the minimum wage so that it becomes a living wage, I have been planning an update. However,…
Walmart: Skirting Around Labour Laws
Excerpted from a slide on how management should speak to employees to discourage union talk. As reported by ThinkProgress, the above is but one of the ‘clever’ strategies for ensuring…
The Harper Legacy: Empty Mantras And Empty Ideology
I hope readers don’t think I have grown lazy or burnt-out when I reprint letters from The Toronto Star. It is just that their observations and ideas are frequently so…
Good Tim, Bad Tim
Tim’s Contemplative Face Anyone who reads this blog regularly is probably aware that I am no fan of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak. A callow lad at best, a…
Little Did They Know
My son alerted me to this video from 1981. After watching it, be sure to read Rosie DiManno’s observations about workplace leave-taking, the second part of which deals specifically with…
A World Badly In Need Of Inspired Leadership
Since he was elected to the position, I have written several posts related to Pope Francis; several of them express a renewed hope that the plain-speaking pontiff can generate some…
Some Interesting And Encouraging Poll Results
According to a Huffington Post survey, more than 60 per cent of Albertan respondents backed Neil Young’s condemnation of the tarsands; as well, an Edmonton Journal online poll found more…