My Return To Blogging
I have updated the look of the blog thanks to the new template designs that are now available, one of the reasons I have not been updating my blog, was…
On double standards
Simon Enoch, Paul Dechene and Stephen Whitworth have already weighed in on the City of Regina’s choice to blow its nose on a petition that reflects citizen engagement in action.…
brandon toy: i have come to believe that the true insanity is doing nothing
Brandon Toy, writing in Common Dreams. I hereby resign in protest effective immediately. I have served the post-911 Military Industrial complex for 10 years, first as a soldier in Baghdad,…
Saturday Photo: Gardening Where You Might Not Expect It
I’ve been delighted to follow the increasing number of people who seem to be finding corners of the city to garden in. These two photos were taken in les Champs…
Tory expense fun, it’s not just for the Senate
Ahoy Tory riding associations! Canadian Press follows the dollar trail to show us how political donation limits are playing out in Canada: “Eye-popping Tory riding war chests raise eyebrows.” This…
Tory expense fun, it’s not just for the Senate
Ahoy Tory riding associations! Canadian Press follows the dollar trail to show us how political donation limits are playing out in Canada: "Eye-popping Tory riding war chests raise eyebrows." This…
Tory expense fun, it’s not just for the Senate
Ahoy Tory riding associations! Canadian Press follows the dollar trail to show us how political donation limits are playing out in Canada: “Eye-popping Tory riding war chests raise eyebrows.” This…
Enbridge to delay required pipeline safety fix for three more years
Enbridge “will delay required crude oil pipeline safety fix for three more years”, according to a document received by the Council of Canadians via an access to information request. The…
Canadian Atheism Panel
Tomorrow morning (9am out here), I will be joining Ian Cromwell, Jesse Brydle from Halifax, Donna Harris from Winnipeg, and Veronica Abbas from Peterborough for a panel on Freethought in…
#yegvote Google Hangout #2
TweetFollowing out successful first #yegvote Google Hangout a few weeks ago, Mack Male, Ryan Hastman, and I gathered online for the second #yegvote Google Hangout focusing on this October’s municipal…
what i’m reading: two youth novels
There is so much truly excellent youth fiction out these days, and it’s not all vampires and zombies. Here are two wonderful teen novels in two totally different veins. There…
In 1960 Detroit had the highest per capita income in America
And a population of two million. Now with 700,000, half functionally illiterate, the city is bankrupt. But the suburbs are fine. Troy is fantastically wealthy and Auburn Hills is nice.…
How Telus is misrepresenting figures to justify price-gouging
This week a new report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development confirmed what Canadians have been saying for years: that we pay some of the highest prices in…
Krugman Warns of China’s Unstable Economy. Will Ottawa Listen?
Maybe Steve Harper picked a bad moment to bind Canada’s economic future to China’s. The way Paul Krugman sees it, China has a structural time bomb within its economy and…
Legendary White House Correspondent, Helen Thomas, Dead at 92
She covered every administration from Kennedy to Obama and ruffled a few feathers along the way. Helen Thomas, whose bottomless curiosity and unquenchable drive made her a prominent White House…
Off the grid
Been without power and phone for a day – so we’re heading back to TeeDot a day early. Got a lot of meat to get into a freezer! Oh, and…
The End of Growth
It’s not the custom of people my age to go back and re-educate themselves on economics and I know why – ugh! I thought I understood economics from three or…
6260…Boys In Skirts
Great Britain is going thru a heat wave. A heat wave in Great Britain btw means the temp is close to 20. The management at Whitchurch High School in Cardiff,…
July 20: I really don’t want to say this, but….
…it has to be said.I do not think columnist George Sullivan is an evil man. I’m sure he does not think of himself as being prejudiced. My own feeling is…