Video: Kelowna RCMP Kick Unarmed Man In Face
**UPDATE: RCMP Officer most likely will be charged with assault**UPDATE: Buddy Tavares is released and denies initial allegationBuddy Tavares, a 51 year-old man, while being arrested in Kelowna BC was…
But, But – It’s Only Rhetoric! (… Right?)
(Updated below) "It's only rhetoric meant to energize the base". How often have we been hearing this excuse, this self-serving justification to diminish the terrible impact that words and symbols…
LifeSite on the Arizona Shooting – Taking CYA to a New and Disgusting Level
I generally prefer to report rather than takes digs at, after all as Friedrich Nietzsche said, “Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.” However, this article…
Fluoridation, again
Calgary may once again have a chance to get added fluoride out of our water supply. I found this to be a good site arguing against fluoridation. I don’t have…
MP’s – Why are we here?
Recently Steve Paikin of TVO spoke to Allison Loat of Samara Canada about their second report based upon MP exit interviews titled Welcome to Parliament: A Job With No Description…
Accused killer, Jared Loughner, "Christano-fascist influenced?"
I doubt that Jared Loughner who is accused of killing six people (at last count) in Tuscon, Arizona could be described as a Christian. However, he could have been influenced…
The loss of US sovereignty
I lived in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC in 1979, and during this period, I looked up several old friends of mine who had jobs as Congressional aides on…
Review: <I>The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You</I>
The personal essay is a form of writing that is underrated by many on the left, except perhaps in some feminist contexts. It is a form that starts very explicitl...
Jan. 19: Political Prisoners and Prison Solidarity Work in North America, History and Current Context
Certain Days & Kersplebedeb Publishing invite you to: Political Prisoners & Prison Solidarity Work in North America: History & Current Context When: Wednesday, January 19, 6:30pm Where: QPIRG Concordia 1500…
Late Friday Night Ode To … The Future
The future: truly, the undiscovered country, the final frontier. And still we will be facing up against our own demons. Thus I give you Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier:…
Scarier of Two Evils
What’s worse than a “tax and spend” liberal? How about a tax-cut and spend Conservative! Prisons, Planes, and Post-signs – these are the things the Canadian taxpayer is going to…
British Ethics: A Dark Comedy
North Sea Oil Drilling by crawfish head Yesterday, January 6th 2011, the UK Parliamentary committee appointed to look into whether the government should enact a moratorium on deep-water drilling in…
Canada and Burma: 2010 Highlights
2010 was spectacular with the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, but a disaster with the flawed election and nature’s havoc with Giri. We will continue to pursue peaceful means…
Facts Matter In The Debate Over Water Fluoridation
It’s known as one of the top ten public health achievements of the 20th century; a “classic example of clinical observation leading to epidemiological investigation and community-based public health intervention;”…
UPDATED…Guess What Folks? Our Oil is Ethical!
No, I don’t believe the malarkey that our oil is ethical. The only thing this argument does is compare our bad practices to the worse practices of other nations. Our…
Tunisia and Algeria: North African States of Unrest
Reports of civil unrest and suicidal protests in Algeria and Tunisia these past two weeks are highlighting the precarious conditions under which many people across the world live: on the…
A new model for public policy debate?
Rudyard Griffiths and I wrote the below for the Guardian the week after the Munk Debates, and I forgot to post. I have worked on the debates for a couple…
In honor of our (unifying) hockey defeat
A FFIB from the past that deals with political hockey, which is somewhat apropos based on the how our politicians tried to use last nights, world juniors game for political…
Republicans Read the U.S. Constitution Aloud: A Pack of Tricks on the Dead
The Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives began its control of that august body by reading aloud the Constitution of the United States. Democrats jointed them in the…
Intermittent Blogging Ahead
Well, it looks like 2011 will be as bad as 2010, with regards to my professional life (among other things). (Yes, my mother died last June, but I don't expect…