Happy Pink Shirt Day!!!!!
Wear pink! Show the world that you think that bullying SUCKS! The Canterbury Community Association is pleased to announce….PINK SHIRT DAY- Anti Bullying Day – February 29th 2012. DID YOU…
Wear pink! Show the world that you think that bullying SUCKS! The Canterbury Community Association is pleased to announce….PINK SHIRT DAY- Anti Bullying Day – February 29th 2012. DID YOU…
<em>This guest blog was written by Mike Marin and Anouk Dey. It originally appeared in the Toronto Star on February 24. The authors are part of a team that produced…
Because as a historian I don’t get many chances (har har) to read books by paranoid manipulative megalomaniacs, I’ve been on the edge of my seat for months now as…
I was sent this neat info-graphic that discusses the need for comprehensive sex ed in the USA. We can be a bit more smug here in Canada, but we must…
The Canterbury Community Association is pleased to announce….PINK SHIRT DAY-Anti Bullying Day – February 29th 2012. DID YOU KNOW that the last Wednesday of February is known as Anti-Bullying Day…
After the last week’s revelations and counter-revelations regarding the Heartland Institute’s campaign against climate science and climate scientists, here’s an appropriate reminder (language warning!) * Don’t forget to go to…
I have received a letter from a student who obtained his doctoral degree with me a few years ago, and after one postdoctoral appointment decided that their heart was really…
This sort of bullying story should not exist in a budding police state, err, I mean civilized Canada. How are the “bullies” who assaulted this girl multiple times not expelled…
This time, why did 8 OCDSB Trustees vote against instructing staff to clarify what is meant by religious accommodation? Religious Practice in Schools “MOTION A” FAILED ON A VOTE OF…
Friday, December 9 saw the final day of debate at second reading on the Cons’ seat allocation bill. And as usual, plenty of valid questions went entirely unanswered. The Big…
The Heartland Institute is a right-wing “think-tank” that describes itself as a “devoted to discovering, developing, and promoting free market solutions to social and economic problems.” However, as DeSmogBlog has…
… Drummond did not recommend eliminating Ontario’s wasteful and discriminatory duplicate education system? Anybody? As well, it was good to hear the Chair of the OCDSB note on CBC this…
A few weeks ago, my friend Seong (he’s from Korea), told me about the effects of Globalization on South Korean farmers. With cheap beef flooding into the country, farmers have…
Today’s NDP leadership debate lands in Quebec. I’m using 14 criteria to evaluate who I’ll be voting for. Let me know if you have suggestions for improved criteria. 2012.02.12 NDP…
Unfortunately I was buried in research over the past week, which not only slowed down my usual production of posts but, worse yet, means I missed the fact that the…
A valuable collection of insight into the exhibition of feminist artwork is now available to the public. FeministDialectic.ca is a new website that features ten curators, artists and museum professionals…
Here’s an amazing article that walks you through the physics calculations that show why the Sun is such a great energy source for Earth. We could make use of its…
“I felt like it is kind of an insult to be a denier for a long time,” said Sen. Bert Brown, last month at a parliamentary committee studying energy policies.…
Interesting how social conservatives in both Canada and the United States are blaming universities for their being “too much edumacation”. On his Facebook profile, former Liberal MP Omar Alghabra, found…
"Oxford Tire Pile #8" by Edward Burtynsky The National Film Board of Canada — producer of such great films as Manufacturing Consent, Ryan, Jesus of Montreal, The Decline of the…