The King of Versailles
I watched the documentary “The Queen of Versailles” when it was in the theatres. It’s a powerful piece of work. I had several reactions to it, but I’m going to…
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PEI Liberal MLA shows no shame to emotional crowd at Province House.
At least that is the headline I would very much like to see, on the news tonight, in the paper tomorrow. Of course it’s not likely. All we’ll see is…
My link to The Linc
Lincoln Alexander served as the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1985 to 1991. Alexander was also a Governor of the Canadian Unity Council. In 1968, he was elected to…
Support our Light the Night Walk
Grant LaFleche, writing for the St. Catherine’s Standard, wrote a column yesterday calling on atheists to be more charitable. It’s a common trope that atheists and Humanists don’t give as…
Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2012-10-18 23:07:00
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CBC – Doc Zone – Episode – Sext Up Kids
Saw this documentary on CBC the other day and it was scary. Kids are overly sexualized and even hyper-sexualized from a young age and it is having hugely negative consequences.…
An All-Sports Radio Station in Canada! The time has come. Or gone. Or was here but went. Or is never going to happen. Pity.
Still, it would be a nice idea, sometime. Precis/Abstract: Sports radio in Canada had a unique, unfulfilled opportunity to cover the spectrum of sports. With media concentration, the unfulfilled opportunity…
Canadian Sovereignty For Sale to Fuel Power and Money Addiction
Am I seeing this correctly? Could this possibly be happening to my country, Canada? Are we giving away our right to act as a sovereign nation to satisfy the greed…
REVIEW: Prof. Smeaton’s Analysis of the Great Recession
I must confess: I have half a dozen good books sitting on my shelf that haven’t quite gotten around to reading yet. It is probably no accident that most of…
Video: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis – Same Love feat. Mary Lambert
All kinds of awesomeness from Macklemore, a.k.a. Ben Haggerty.
Dalton McGuinty Resigns
National Post Storey
CEP votes overwhelmingly in favour of CAW merger
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2012/10/15/wdr-cep-vote-caw-merger.html
Robert Ghiz – This land is my land – PEI
The song was sung last week in the woods of Bonshaw Hills, Prince Edward Island, amoung old growth forest, Acadian forest, between hundred year old Hemlocks, beside streams, it’s words…
A little respect for downtown residents – please!
I needed to go to Toronto today, and had to cross King Street in Waterloo at the start of my trip. But there was a run of some sort going…
Bullying, anti-bullying, and anti-anti-bullying
A couple of days ago a 15-year old Canadian girl committed suicide after a long bout of internet bullying that followed her even when she switched schools. Prior to hanging…
Google Docs: one-year review
About a year ago, my institution made the campus-wide transition to Google electronic mail. Concurrently, Google’s suite of office applications known as Google Docs also became available, as it comes…
‘Hipster’ is not a real job. Neither is not having a job.
Last week, the CCPA released a report (authored by yours truly) about youth un- and underemployment in Canada. It showed that, while youth unemployment in Canada is not insubstantial –…
Talking, Sharing and Healing Circles
It’s been some time now since I’ve posted, but, an upcoming event that is of mega importance is coming up in Vancouver. Occupy Vancouver is moving closer and closer to…