Barriers
In my teaching career, one of the most powerful lessons for my students emerged from Atticus Finch, Scout’s beloved father in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird. A lawyer with…
Lorne
Integrity And Dishonour On Display
It there were two people in a room, a politician and a private citizen, and you were told that one was deeply dishonourable and one very principled, you would naturally…
On Canada Day
On this Canada Day, I could write about all of the reasons I am very thankful for having been born and raised in this country. Instead, I will ask whoever…
I Don’t Know About You …
… but despite our many earth-bound problems, I find this sort of thing absolutely fascinating: Recommend this Post
Contrasting Pictures
This post could perhaps more aptly be entitled A Tale of Two Centuries. The top picture, from yesterday’s Dyke March in Toronto, represents some of the best of the twenty-first…
Oh So True
H/t Canadians Rallying To Unseat Stephen Harper Recommend this Post
The Age of the Disposable Worker
On this blog I frequently lament the fact that we live in the age of the fungible worker, the one who is easily exchanged for another should his or her…
For Those Who Don’t Mind Gov’t Surveillance Because They Have Nothing To Hide
You might want to take a moment to read Rick Salutin’s thoughts on the implications of living in a country where environmentalists and others who oppose the government’s corporate agenda…
A Rare Moment of Praise For The U.S.
Despite being deeply cynical about Amercian poltics in general, and Barack Obama in particular, a rare opportunity to praise both has just arisen. Although relatively modest in scope, in response…
Duh
Who could have seen this coming? Recommend this Post
Just Because …
…he deserves all of the ridicule and contempt we can muster. Recommend this Post
The Peripatetic Pamela
It would seem that the good Senator from somewhere, Pamela Wallin, is on the road so much that she has been denied health coverage in both Ontario and Saskatchewan, at…
On Corporate Welfare
David Lewis, the one-time head of the federal NDP and father of Stephen Lewis, used the phrase corporate welfare bums in his 1972 federal election campaign to describe the various…
The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight
Many years ago I read a novel by Jimmy Breslin called The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, which dealt with profound ineptitude within a certain New York mafia family. It…
It’s Never Enough, Is It?
Forget for the moment that Macdonald’s is one of the world’s biggest corporations; forget for the moment that a steady diet of its food will likely shorten your life; forget…
Rather Apt, Don’t You Think?
H/t The ChronicleHerald Recommend this Post
Harper ‘Stunned’ By Magnitude of Alberta Flooding
I guess it doen’t take much to stun a climate-change denier like Harper: Recommend this Post
Shh! Don’t Ask!
I have to confess to feeling a small measure of guilt each time I reproduce someone else’s words with little editorializing on my part. Yet my ego is sufficiently robust…
He Certainly Has Mr. Harper’s Number
It is always heartening to me, and I am sure to countless others, to see that some members of the Canadian electorate are not asleep at the proverbial wheel but…