Vaatega ruumid / Rooms with a view
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Student Debt and Myopic Public Policy
Gary Mason began his column in Thursday's Globe and Mail by reminiscing about the good old days:Once upon a time, getting money to attend university in Canada was easy. There…
Uproar over prayer in school
http://bit.ly/oFzPff The newspapers are full of criticism of the Toronto District School Board for allowing Friday prayer services for Muslim students in the cafeteria at Valley Park Middle School. I…
Good riddance to one Murdoch newspaper, but here comes another …
The ever so controversial Sunday paper News of the World, which defies even the vilest of descriptions, is finally folding this weekend after 168 years after it got caught up…
Facebook: A Giant Snitch?
While Facebook may not tell on you, your use of Facebook will be disclosed to others.
Yours Truly, BP: The Legacy of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster
The NRDC’s recent report on water quality at vacation beaches highlights the continuing legacy of the BP Gulf oil disaster, which killed 11 workers and spewed approximately 170 million gallons…
Critical Thinking: The Assault On Reason
The following is a review I wrote about four years ago of Al Gore's book, The Assault on Reason, a work that addresses many of the problems arising when the…
Carbon Tax helps Seniors!
Many people think that a Carbon Tax doesn't help anybody especially struggling seniors. In Australia where a Carbon Tax is being proposed thanks to the Greens in Australia, the Labor…
Traffic for people lined up at the Basilica
This was an amazing week in Newfoundland and Labrador politics. Summer arrived with a vengeance, traffic at the humble e-scribbles is back up and the theme this week seems to…
Pop Genius Alert: tUnE-yArDsl
A bit like a Latin inflected MIA, but MIA raps while even on this live recording you can tell Merrill Garbus has a kick-ass set of pipes. If she doesn't…
Autism Genetic Myth DEBUNKED!
Our understanding of autism has been impaired for over a decade by the myth that autism is primarily genetic, a myth that has now been debunked as set out in…
What Obama can do about the debt ceiling
The big news item in the US, other than the Casey Anthony trial, has been the need for Congress to raise the national debt ceiling, in order to avoid defaulting…
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Filmmaker Adam Curtis returns with a brilliant new documentary series that explores the ways in which many of our modern ideas and conventionally held beliefs have been perversely shaped by…
Junk mail
Various journalists are blaming the postal workers for the mail backlog -- they're forgetting that it was Canada Post management that decided to lock out its workers for two weeks…
Musical interlude
Haji & Emanuel - Take Me Away
Why "working for you" is killing the system
“Popular rule is not democracy, Anakin. It gives the people what they want, not what they need.”This line comes from a deleted scene from Attack of the Clones of all…
Friday night
If the last Friday-night music post was something that aged well over four or five years, well ... give this a spin.
3918…Best Joke Ever
Comes from Bill Maher and feautures two icons who died this year, one of them earlier this year, the other one who died today.The joke is that "Liz Taylor has…
A no longer radical, now reactionary campus: The SFSS CUPE Lockout
There’s an almost mythical status to the label that Simon Fraser University used to promote itself in 2005 during its 40th anniversary celebrations: the university was a “radical campus.” The…
News International Implodes Because of Women
Phone hacking is hacking for women. And as we all know, newspapers have been taken over by women. Gross generalization. Sure, whatever. :) Here is what smarter people are saying…