“We Are Sleepwalking To Disaster . . " *
Many in the blogosphere are doing a stellar job covering the climate-change beat, including The Disaffected Lib, who has had several recent thought-provoking posts on the subject. So I really…
Austerity Kills
In their book, The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills, David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu demonstrate that, around the world, austerity has had devastating consequences on public health. Consider what economic…
Egyptian President Morsi Gets the Hook! Army Steps In As Demands For His Resignation Grew.
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger A relatively short lived term as President was the fate of Mohammed Morsi who outraged millions of Egyptians with his style of governance. Democracy was won in…
Technology Integration in K-12
I was asked, I'm curious as to what you think the three most important things for newteachers to know about technology integration in k-12? 1. Community – teaching can be…
A long way from best in class #nlpoli
Cathy Bennett’s leadership launch event was organized as one would expect. Her speech was scripted and, hand gestures and all, well rehearsed. From the start there was the flush of…
Stephen Harper and the Decline of the Fish Regime
Well I can only imagine the scene in the dungeon of the PMO tonight.A desperate Stephen Harper trying to decide which one of his multiple personalities might make Canadians love…
Northern Lights Animation
I have a few more of these aurora animations to create and upload to YouTube. Here’s a fun one to start with tonight though.
Bolivian President Evo Morales Plane Diverted Under US Pressure
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger We are experiencing a time where bizarre is the new norm. Bolivia’s President Evo Morales flight home from a Russian visit was detained, stalled, diverted. Some say…
Campaign Diary Volume 2: Mapping St. Albert priorities while my web page dries out
A work in progress … a screenshot from my campaign website, as it emerges… ST. ALBERT, Alberta One of the small ripples and eddies from the disastrous floods that inundated…
6208…Cooking Kids In Canada
Rick Kaulbars, personal and Facebook friend of mine, posts the following thoughts on FB. In North America, 33 toddlers a year die in overheated parked cars. WIthin 20mins. the car…
The $55 Billion Private Power Racket and Real Story Behind Hydro’s Debt
The Liberal Government and its private power pals are taking a page out of the neoliberal handbook, which aims to privatize anything of value. Here’s how it works: 1. You…
For a Diversity of Tactics
I went last night to a presentation by two women from Deep Green Resistance. It was an interesting presentation focusing on the question of how we make change in our…
F-35 Falls Behind Schedule, Again
Testing can become costly and time-consuming when you’re building an aircraft before you know if it will actually work as advertised. It defeats the whole notion of schedules and target…
They ‘Will Lie, Trick, and Deceive’: Jailed CIA Whistleblower’s Warns Edward Snowden
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger It is becoming hard to keep track of all the ‘Whistleblowers’ and the tunes that they are whistling. It is clear that many countries spy, snoop…
E.U. slashes roaming fees while Big Telecom in Canada tries to delay the implementation of the CRTC Code
Here in Canada, Big Telecom is taking Canadians to court to try to delay the end of expensive 3-year contracts until nearly 2017. Meanwhile, over in Europe, the E.U. has…
Groups demand that U.S. companies reject Canadian tar sands
by: Sierra Club Canada | Press Release: Corporate Climate Campaign led by Sierra Club and ForestEthics Gains Momentum San Francisco, CA, June 2, 2013 – Fifty-eight organizations, led by the…
Hudak PC candidate: Female voters are "less informed"…including about control over their own bodies?
That’s Wayne Wettlaufer, former PC MPP who served with Hudak and Mike Harris running to win his seat of Kitchener Centre back for the Conservatives. Wettlaufer also must think women…
The Jet Stream, The Calgary Floods, And Global Warming
One day I want to do an in-depth post on gradually changing attitudes among climate scientists re attributing individual events to global warming. This is not that post. Instead I’ve…
How to stop a media bias argument in its tracks, even with a Toronto Star journalist
The big myth in Canada is that there is a liberal media bias in Canada. That belief, honed by Canadian right-wing bloggers based on their southern counterpart’s laborious whine about…