Vancouver Island Needs Island Transit
Most areas on Vancouver Island already have regional transit, some areas having much more effective transit than others. Transit is environmentally-friendly, as it takes more vehicles off the road, and…
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Paul Fromm, the London March, and the Fine Art of Turd Polishing
First, let us begin by stating if the boneheads in London, ON wish to hold another march and rally in the same manner that they did yesterday, we unreservedly support…
Justin’s not so positive acceptance speech
The full text of Justin Trudeau’s speech can be found here. I wanted to highlight the section talking about the Conservatives and Stephen Harper. It is the first major section…
Quick #LPCLdr, By the Numbers
Very quickly I’m going to cover some of the numbers that have come out of the race tonight, including regional breakdown and some interesting ridings. This is all in the…
Trudeau’s Win by the Numbers
Over the past year, there have been thousands of articles written about Justin Trudeau, his father, and his leadership campaign. Since it hasn’t been a big secret he was going…
Representing addiction in documentary cinema
In just under a month on May 11th, I’ll be speaking in Vancouver at a conference about the intersection of documentary, addiction, madness and social health. I’ll be speaking about…
Surprise! Justin Trudeau wins the Liberal leadership
I thought he gave a great speech, Liberals have good reason to be optimistic going forward. Update: This post was done by my friend J.K. He is more optimistic than…
McLuhan – Understanding Media – Summary of Chapters 11-14
My contribution to the Understanding Media Reading Group Chapter 11 McLuhan writes, in Chapter 11 of Understanding Media, that “The mysterious need of crowds to grow and to reach out,…
Justin Trudeau is just plain Wrong about Micro-Targeting being negative.
Uh-oh. I read this article on Friday and it got right under my skin. Taken together with past statements by Justin Trudeau that he would not allow negative attacks on…
Ding Dong the People’s Song and the Progressive Hero
Well it didn't make it to the number one position on this week's music charts. Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead has failed to reach the number one spot in…
"Final" turnout numbers (Updated)
Teddy here again; this time on the right day! I’ve gathered the data from the turnout results and present them to you in this table: It would seem requiring registration…
Stiglitz and Muclair VS. Trudeau and ?
Just returned from the NDP policy convention. While I’m not pleased that those assembled voted to replace the preamble with a more touchy-feely document (the vote was something 900 to…
The animals on our screen – A review of The Ghosts in Our Machine
Over the last decade of programming political documentary for Cinema Politica I can say with confidence that there are two subjects that have always been decidedly divisive and caused the…
London, Ontario: Today’s Bonehead March in Perspective
They had been planning this for a while (goodness knows they had to make up for the disaster that happened last year) and though we expected it soon, we didn’t…
Saving Canadian English, one word at a time.
Is Canadian English dying? Or should I say, Canadian English is dying, eh? First, is there such a thing as Canadian English? The answer is — and this is classically…
Joe Oliver and the Pipeline Parable
The last time I saw Joe Oliver he was still trying to sell his dirty oil pipeline.Still trying to convince us that the water from the tailing ponds was safe…
Liberal Leadership Vote Turnout
Teddy here. I’ve complied the data from ballots cast as of 3pm on Sunday Saturday (turns out I don’t know what day is its!) Note that while this is the…
Verdun, April 12, 2013
Can only remember this much snow a couple of times in my life this far into April and probably only in the last 15 years or so. My father was…
The Great Rebranding
Responding to Michael Feldstein, who on summarizing the recent EDUCAUSE MOOC conference (see my summaries from this blog) represents MOOCs as yet another form of artifact in support of traditional…
It’s Lakeland 2.0! Limited Time Only!!!!
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Todd Bentley is preparing to crank up another revival. And GOD TV, the cable TV and internet TV station has just…