The Myth of Financial Literacy
Barrie McKenna has a very good column in today’s Report on Business about Bay Street simultaneously promoting “financial literacy,” more personal borrowing, and high-fee financial products. He makes some of…
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Free Egypt, Free Syria from Regina
Protesters are clashing with authorities in Egypt’s Tahrir Square again. This video’s screenshot amazed me. Occupy Regina supported the Freedom for Syria rally in Victoria Park today.
On Global Day of Action, Occupy Ottawa flexes underrated muscle
By Obert Madondo Even as the threat of eviction from Confederation Park looms larger, the Occupy Ottawa movement is getting stronger, says Arun Smith. Yesterday, the movement held simultaneous marches…
Occupy Links
Some random links about Occupy Regina and OWS in general: November 17 is going to be a big day in the Occupy Wall Street movement. The stock exchange may never…
Another reason why I won’t subscribe to the Ottawa Citizen…
How is this news???? Tell me! Please!!! Seriously? This is People Magazine stuff. Not journalism. Who cares who is dating whom? Eyebrows were raised at the Gold Medal Plates culinary…
Occupy Regina Fined
- Hat with 99% Occupier signatures. The protesters of Occupy Regina were fined, one being arrested for not having ID on him while the City’s bylaw officer Flaman and Regina…
The Politics of Potash
Advocates of low potash royalties are claiming that New Democrats fared poorly in Saskatchewan’s recent election because they proposed higher potash royalties. Of course, potash companies and their boosters would…
Brad Wall Light?
I got to know and like Dave McGrane in the Saskatchewan Young New Democrats, but the following assessment misses the mark: McGrane, an assistant professor at St. Thomas More College,…
Pig Penn
Very puzzling, but markedly less infuriating than the sexual abuse and cover-up scandal shrouding Penn State University, is the thoughtless, pigskin-headed response last night by student mobs to the sackings…
If Ezra Levant pushed his way into your house and wouldn’t leave, wouldn’t YOU call the cops?
OTTAWA – When the CBC’s Mary Walsh shows up unannounced with a camera crew at Toronto mayor Rob Ford’s house, the state broadcaster considers it comedy. When Sun News Network’s…
The myopic terrorism lens
One of the main failures of western understanding of the Middle East and South Asia, and the subsequent failures of actions taken by the west in these regions, stems from…
Social Media, Part II: The Value of Social Media
Like it or hate it, social media is now a potent force in society that is legitimately changing the way people interact with information, with news and politics, with each…
Media Messaging – Using the ‘Right’ Terms
What language do you think progressives should use to try to communicate with the average Canadian viewer?
Dear commerical media quit using “union boss” to describe our leaders
I know y'all are into brevity and everything. I'm with you. But is the pain of adding three extra characters to your titles and content really so onerous that you…
Misled
Angela Hall makes the fatal mistake of presuming that right-wing spin has anything at all to do with reality:Returning to the city where he made a recent campaign promise to…
Social Media, Part I: Information Flows
It is truly an empowering experience to live at at time with our neary effortless access to unprecedented amounts of information. More than just this, however, we are able to…
Take Off, Eh?
As a Halloween treat, Ezra Levant attempts to be funny by masquerading as an obnoxious “Barge Delahunty” intruding on a Rob Ford look-alike (who knew?) in a series of increasingly…
Unrest in Bill’s Republic of Doyle
PotashCorp CEO Bill Doyle waded into Saskatchewan’s election campaign on Friday with an op-ed in the province’s two largest newspapers. It was accompanied by a paid advertisement from PotashCorp in…
Rainbow Pipeline Leak — Six Months Later…
It has been 6 months since Plains Midstream Canada reported that there had been a Rainbow Pipeline leak, 100 km NE of Peace River, Alberta. Initially, the Alberta media were…
Rick Mercer: "It gets better" isn’t enough
Frankly, Rick says it way better than most of us. The crap that leads 300 students in this country to commit suicide every year because they can't stand the bullying…