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…
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A Scar on the land and the people – PEI
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…
Cheating at voting (bots etc) not acceptable
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…
Has Mr. Katz done Alberta democracy a favour?
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…
Hi! My Name is Sandy, This is Your Wake-Up Call!
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…
Canada Has Lost it’s Democracy
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…
New blog affiliates
Please welcome to Progressive Bloggers: LisaKirbie.com
A Linux adventure in Mexico
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…
One Cowichan
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…
Harper and Conservatives’ "Pedal to the metal" with new FIPPA Treaty
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…
Motivations
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…
An extermination of a whole group of Indigenous people is in process as I type…
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…
Binomial distributions and multiple choice tests
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.…
Idealism for Ideals
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.…
ANALYSIS: Did Quebec’s Student Movement Divide The Left?
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…
Sustainable Urban Resilience: A Contradiction in Terms?
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
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…
Thank You Mr. Harper, But No Thank You
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…
Conrad Black – convicted criminal, bully and Lord – Part 2. AKA Buy Theives of Bay Street.
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…