http://www.economist.com/node/21529014Great article in The Economist about education reform and progress around the world, and Ontario is right at the top:“Ontario really is impressive,” enthuses Sir Michael Barber, former head of…
I should confess that when it first came out, I dozed off during the Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. That's not the kind of admission you'd expect from someone who…
Things aren’t always as they seemLives ripped apart tend to leaveJagged edgesBetter tread carefullyShe’s not quite the womanYou knew back whenYour naivety made you creativeDon’t forget how I was helpless…
Things aren't always as they seemLives ripped apart tend to leaveJagged edgesBetter tread carefullyShe's not quite the womanYou knew back whenYour naivety made you creativeDon't forget howI was helpless when…
Things aren’t always as they seemLives ripped apart tend to leaveJagged edgesBetter tread carefullyShe’s not quite the womanYou knew back whenYour naivety made you creativeDon’t forget how I was helpless…
Tomorrow is an early morning and a long drive to Killarney Provincial Park. The car's packed. The boat is strapped onto the roof. Hope them foam blocks hold. Hope I…
A Norwegian news photo, taken by a surveillance camera, shows Anders Breivik in riot police gear (real, or fake?) shortly after having placed his car bomb in downtown Oslo. (Via…
Argh. Some time ago, one of my acquaintances was trying to cheer me up. She was trying to convince me that it is possible to turn positive into negative. She…
…so they can act like poor sports and declare that the online winner is a BIG FAT LOSER, by their Upstanding All-American American Apparel Standards. Nancy Upton, the gorgeous prankster…
The other day on his “700 Hundred Club” program, Pat Robertson made a most astounding pronouncement in response to a man asking what advice he should give to a “friend”…
friedman_quote.jpg In her famous book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, author and activist Naomi Klein quotes the Godfather of free market capitalism, Milton Friedman, whom...
Montreal visual artist Bettina Forget is working on an art project in which she videos a random minute each day for a year. The videos will be edited into a…
A Globe editorial aligns itself with the criticisms that were laid out by the Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner. Hudak's proposal to make public a sex offender registry is a cheap…
Thursday, September 15, 2011 At the end of the summer, West Coast and our allies in the campaign t...
From the estimable Where I Wander blog:
A market system that fails to price the full cost of carbon is socialism -Dan Moutal
National Religious Broadcasters (US) plans to hold a news conference in Washington tomorrow today to release results of a study on what they perceive is religious viewpoint censorship in ‘new…
Alison Redford is a successful, independent woman - mother to a nine year-old girl, a lawyer who advised Brian Mulroney and Joe Clark on policy before travelling the world promoting…
Because where else can you find a provincial Liberal Party attacking the leader of the Conservative Party - for not being conservative enough!?Granted, the BC Liberals are not your standard…
…when police officers do it. More outrageous brutality, this time against an 11-year-old kid, from the people who brought you Robert Dziekanski. No public accountability. Just more impunity—as once again,…
