Zero to Hero
Nation, by now most of you are no doubt aware of the story of Edmonton high school teacher Lynden Dorval, who was fired for violating the “no zeroes” policy set…
Nation, by now most of you are no doubt aware of the story of Edmonton high school teacher Lynden Dorval, who was fired for violating the “no zeroes” policy set…
I spent over a week in a ravine, in Churchill, standing with a small group of people, holding an invisible line while machines roared through the land. It was something…
We’ve detected some gaming of the voting system here with certain blogs (otherwise known as cheating). There are lots of suspicious hosts/host names that look like they could be running…
Alberta has the laxest election funding rules in the country, rules designed to favour the rich. Toward the end of this spring’s election campaign, billionaire Daryl Katz nicely illustrated this…
At the end of a U.S. election campaign that has ignored climate change and global warming, Mother Nature has weighed in with a persuasive argument. Sandy’s wake-up call couldn’t have…
I can’t even start to translate what is going on in our supposed “democracy” except to say that I don’t see it as a democracy at all anymore. We have…
Everybody’s biting their nails and holding their breath. What’s going to happen? Who’s going to win? The “Hollywood liberal” machine is out in full force with clever ads by luminaries…
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I had been using WiFi connections all over the US and northern Mexico for the previous six weeks, and was looking forward to getting an almost-permanent residence so I would…
Tonight I attended an event at the Quw’utsun’ Cultural Centre in Duncan BC to address the flow “management” of the historic Cowichan River. The intent was to bring together all…
Prime Minister Harper spoke to a friendly crowd at last summer’s Calgary Stampede when he said that this period of majority government was not a time to relax, but to…
Politics is a show. I think, by now, that’s something we all know. At least, those of us who are engaged enough to pay attention between elections – which is…
Letter of the Community Guarani-Kaiowá of Pyelito Kue/Mbarakay-Iguatemi-MS for the Government and Justice of Brazil We (50 men, 50 women and 70 children) Guarani-Kaiowá communities originating from tekoha Pyelito kue…
Readers of my blog know that I generally regard multiple choice tests (MCTs) as an adequate tool to assess student knowledge of, and proficiency with, a given set of topics.…
In the middle of the summer, I was asked by my friend Joseph Uranowski to write an article on whether or not Justin Trudeau should run for the Liberal leadership.…
Photo: Chicoutimi/Wikimedia Commons Canadian politics can be loud in the streets as much as it can be quiet in the polling station. As the Canadian Press’ Benjamin Shingler stated in…
David Bello, Associate Editor over at Scientific American, has an interesting post up today looking at the supposed tensions between “resilience” and “sustainability”. His argument in a nutshell is that…
The Lougheed Legacy: Christy Clark, and a Divided and Uncompetitive Nation You will note that I did not make this post at the time of Peter Lougheed’s death and the…
Apparently, Either Stephen Harper or his staff take the time to read this blog and have apparently decided to take from it ideas to contribute towards their policy making. For…
What distinguishes this scandal is Black’s jaw-dropping sense of entitlement. By almost every account, he thought of shareholders as sharecroppers, bugs on his corporate windshield. He ran Hollinger as a…