According to the unintendedly ironic and transitory layout on CBC Calgary’s news page yesterday afternoon, it looked as if former Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith is up Schitt$ Creek. Actually,…
From Barrett Brown, a wrongfully jailed journalist… in the USA. He’s imagining speaking to the founding fathers about the country’s progress: Benjamin Franklin: “It was among my fondest dreams that…
You’re right, we’re not married yet, but this post isn’t about what’s happened to me (despite some very public swings because of who my partner is). This is about a…
Some male Dalhousie dental students posted about how you should “bang” young women until they are unconscious; choosing which woman you’d like to “hate fuck”; commenting that you’d like to…
Just a quick note to say that I’m dealing with a death in my partner’s immediate family and will be posting far less frequently, if at all, for the immediate…
Daphne Bramham: Susan Point an artist for the ages (with video) Her work adorns manhole covers, police cars, Olympic oval and welcomes visitors to Museum of Anthropology BY DAPHNE BRAMHAM,…
As a dues paying member of the blogosphere, I feel compelled to do at least one of the annual blogs: the year in review, or the predictions column. Since the…
Four countries voted against a UN resolution to stamp out Nazism across the globe. Canada was one of them. Why?
Airdrie MLA Rob Anderson, understood to have been one of the key leaders in the controversial effort to get the majority of the Wildrose caucus to defect to the Progressive…
John Klein: 30 years ago yesterday, here’s what was on TV, and what the weather was like in Toronto. Originally posted on Grandparents' Journal: January 5, 1985 Lovely sun at…
Fallout from the march of the Mudville Nine from the Opposition Wildrose benches to the government’s Progressive Conservative caucus continues to drift across Alberta. So serious is the contamination in…
Here’s a clever video that took more than a year to complete by a young Saskatoon man. It reminds me somewhat of my shorter-lived face-a-day project modeled on Noah Kalina’s…
Here’s Harper’s legacy, as he’s attempted to plunge our country into darkness: The group surveyed attitudes towards democracy and governance in interviews with 50,000 people in 28 countries. It found…
Why are Albertans so angry about the defection of 11 Wildrose opposition members to the government’s benches? I mean, why are they really so furious? The reason — and it’s…
Originally posted on Grandparents' Journal: My grandmother I knew as “Nana” lived in Toronto when I was young. She’d moved back there from California, before I was born. She kept…
Support for the Wildrose Party is plummeting as supporters angered by the defection of 11 MLAs to the governing PCs have turned on the five Wildrose MLAs who didn’t cross…
The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age Anonymous. WikiLeaks. The Syrian Electronic Army. Edward Snowden. Bitcoin. The Arab Spring. Digital communication technologies have thrust the calculus of global…
Ontario isn’t as GD senseless as Saskatchewan’s government. They actually have somewhat of a Feed In Tariff program underway. The Ontario Power Authority has just extended its solar feed-in tariff…
Lacombe-Ponoka MLA Rod Fox sure didn’t sound very enthused about his recent switch from the Wildrose Party to the Progressive Conservative Party in the apologetic open letter he wrote to…
If there was one sure sign of the desperation of Thomas Mulcair and his federal New Democrats, it is the promise to institute proportional voting in Canada’s elections. What we…
