Graffiti of a Palestinian flag is seen in Hermannplatz in Berlin’s Neukölln neighbourhood. Photo by Oren Ziv/Flickr. Across Western countries Palestinians, pro-Palestinian activists, and all who support their struggle against…
The best way for a regional government to reduce food waste is to set goals. Previous and common efforts focus on messaging and even in increasing the cost of managing…
Members of Alberta’s labour relations community were scratching their heads Monday and yesterday about Bill 5, the Public Sector Employer Amendment Act, 2023, last on the list of the first…
It is highly unlikely that many people in eastern Canada would worry about alienating Alberta. Over the years, there might have been some envy of the scenic beauty of the…
My brother just sent this to me – it is amazing! In The Hall Of The Mountain King, by VoicePlay
I’m something of a “crypto skeptic”. I don’t necessarily accept as valid the idea that cryptocurrency is a natural replacement for state controlled fiat currencies, or that Blockchain and its…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Larry Patriquin reviews Nancy Fraser’s Cannibal Capitalism, with a focus on explaining how we’ve been pushed into a system based on squeezing…
Wishful Thinking or Useful Tool? Alternative History is a popular sub-genre of historical fiction that asked ‘what if‘ some key event had gone differently. This can be a lot of…
Why is remote learning suddenly so difficult to access when we have all the tech we need to pull it off? When I was in grade 12, I started to…
I guess we never really outgrow Halloween, especially when the auguries spell something scary for Doug Ford. And editorial cartoonists are certainly trying to put the fear of God into…
Rally in Toronto organized by Toronto4Palestine, October 28, 2023. Photo by Sikander Iqbal/Wikimedia Commons. Over the past three weeks since it launched its brutal military bombardment of Gaza, Israel has…
Yale political scientist and anthropologist James C. Scott, author of the whimsical 2013 book Two Cheers for Anarchism, suggested pursuit of justice demands occasional insubordination and disregard for rules. He…
AI generated image Artificial Intelligence keeps popping up everywhere from generative AI which created the image above to the financial sector. What AI is currently doing is copying and reformatting…
It caught us by surprise last week when Justin Trudeau caved in on the carbon pricing on heating oil. It was good to see him get off his high horse…
Here’s some to laugh at today: It’s ok to consider Reeses Pumpkin Peanut Butter Cups as a fruit during Halloween season. — TG ☕️ (@TG22110) October 22, 2023 Canadian politicians,…
There were two speeches at the Alberta Legislature yesterday! Lieutenant Governor Lakhani (Photo: Legislative Assembly of Alberta/Flickr). The Speech from the Throne was long, boring, unpersuasive, evasive, unoriginal, and weirdly…
Forty-one states and the District of Columbia have sued Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, accusing it of using features that hook children to its platforms even as…
I have never seen it this bad. And I’ve seen it when it is really, really bad. But never like this. Anti-Semitism, that is. Hatred and/or prejudice towards Jews. Some…
Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Thus begins the 1897 translation by Samuel Butler…
Perhaps Danielle Smith forgot she where she was when she told the attendees at the Pembina Climate Summit that clean electricity by 2035 was impossible and anyone who thought otherwise…
