A Canadian View of the US Government Shutdown
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New studies show generosity and cooperation are both natural and intelligent
A new study shows a mathematical proof that generosity leads to evolutionary success. Biologists offer a mathematically based explanation for why cooperation and generosity have evolved in nature “Ever since…
Homeless Outreach
Carmichael Outreach sent me a press release. I like to pass those along for interesting events, so here it is. {I was also tickled that a little ol’ blogger like…
Billionaire Tom Steyer blasts Harper’s agressive Keystone lobbying
Billionaire Keystone XL pipeline opponent Tom Steyer (photo: Getty Images) OTTAWA – An anti-Keystone XL pipeline crusader has written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, suggesting Canada’s aggressive lobbying for the…
On Celebrating Talent
Convalescing from a wicked cold that’s beating the crap out of me, I watched a trio of movies about amazing musicians: Joe Strummer, Ginger Baker, and Sixto Rodriguez. In the…
20,900 pageviews.
There have been more than 20,000 pageviews of my candidate list for the 2013 municipal election.
There are regular lies and misrepresentations…
… and then there are Conservative Party of Canada lies and misrepresentations! And the latter category can contain some whoppers!!! This is what has me pissed off: Please find below…
Veterans Affairs: regional office closures. Stop ‘em
See if you can get through this three minute video without tearing up. Despite having all kinds of complex feelings about Canadians involved in places including but not limited to…
UK Cons aim to consolidate angry old people vote
“The trouble with kids these days…” is not exactly the way I would have expected one of Britain’s youngest Prime Ministers in recent history would launch his latest policy announcement…
Judge blasts Alberta government for silencing oilsands critics
Oilsands infrastructure near Fort McMurray (photo: Kris Krüg) EDMONTON – Alberta’s Environment Department has been rebuked by a judge for working behind the scenes to silence groups that question the…
I Didn’t Know That…
One of the great delights of learning is to be able to read or hear something new, something unknown, something that challenges the mind or your previously formed ideas and…
Climate Change will hit Canada harder: international report
OTTAWA – The latest international report on climate change confirms that global warming is amplified in Canada and the trend is going to continue, the David Suzuki Foundation said Monday.…
The deeper reasons for the “war on drugs”
There is a deeper reason for the war on drugs, which is the central reason for the policy, even outweighing profits from private prisons and seizure of property by law…
Kevin Page at Journalism School and #UofR
Former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page, now a professor at the UofO, was a guest at the UofR’s J-School, then CCPA sponsored lecture on Thursday night. I live-tweeted the events,…
50 Years: Has Anything Changed?
I remember that day, in 1963. I was in high school. Penmanship class, after lunch. I think it was the last year for penmanship in Ontario high school, but even…
On Euroscepticism
One of the most influential books I’ve read in the past couple years was Steven Pinker’s Better Angels of our Nature. In it, he attempts first to build the case…
Dinner with Justin Trudeau: Gimmick or Doing Politics Differently?
“Have dinner with me, Susan.” What a charming invitation. Too bad it’s part of a fundraising campaign directed at 300,000 supporters of the federal Liberal party. But wait…let’s think about…
Stephen Harper “won’t take ‘No’ for an answer” on Keystone XL pipeline
Photo: Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press Read this story from the Associated Press on Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s bold statement on Keystone XL at a talk in New York. Harper’s true climate…
Harper government claims to be leader on climate change action
OTTAWA – The Conservative government has responded to an international report on “unequivocal” global warming by slamming past Liberal inaction and renewing its warning of an alleged NDP carbon tax.…