If you too are one of those crazy people who believes one person can make a difference
If you too believe in the power of one here are some things that you can do that will change the world, I promise. If its Yellow Let it Mellow:…
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Steven Salaita to Speak at University of Alberta, January 13th
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Should the CBC Walk the Proverbial Plank?
http://montrealsimon.blogspot.ca/2015/01/what-needs-to-be-said-about-cbc-scandals.html The only valid argument for saving the CBC is that it has a MANDATE, coast to coast to coast, to be there for all the people of this country,…
Passive House in Alaska Heated By Sun
More Canadian homes need to be built like this to survive coming fossil fuel shortages. It certainly saves a lot of money for the homeowner. Passive House in Alaska using…
Terror as wedge issue: anticipating PM Stephen Harper’s ‘anti-terror’ legislation
It remains to be seen what Prime Minister Stephen Harper will do with his new “anti-terror legislation,” announced in the emotional aftermath of the shooting on Parliament Hill as the…
A Gram of Prevention is Worth a Kiloliter of Benzine
If you don’t know how to fix things, stop breaking them. Stewart, however, said it could take months for the steam to cool and the pressure to drop. He said…
Prentice sales tax balloon has Albertans taking note — and potshots
Give Premier Jim Prentice his due, by floating his balloon about a sales tax in Canada’s only remaining sales-tax-free zone he really has Albertans sitting up and taking notice. Read…
Fear Campaign
Fear is a primal response, instilled in us by evolution as a survival mechanism. Recognizing when to be afraid has kept our species alive on a planet where we are…
Did Nothing All Day. Sears Catalogue Came!
John Klein: This day, 30 years ago in Toronto, the Spring and Summer Sears Catalogue was delivered. Today, Target prepares to close in Canada. It’s a coincidence. Originally posted on…
A provincial election would be cynical and foolish, but ….
The Alberta Legislature press gallery, the most chronically underworked legislature press gallery in the country, is all abuzz with election gossip. The Progressive Conservatives have kicked their candidate selection process…
When The Tories Left Office
I was too young in 1991 to put the news I was hearing into context. My family had worked for months on my Dad’s campaign for the Sask Liberals in…
Heading for the courts, CAMH’s Zahn can’t sweep workplace safety under the rug
You have to wonder about Katherine Zahn. Not much has been going right lately for the CEO of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Data shows incidents of…
More lives than a movie zombie: ‘Canada’s Worst MP’ Rob Anders is back, eyeing Wildrose leadership
Just when we’d despaired of ever hearing again from Rob Anders, the man who will be Canada’s worst Member of Parliament only a little longer, he announced “a sense of…
Lang Should Be Fired Or Suspended
CANADALAND's investigation of @AmandaLang_CBC , by @sdbcraig , is now online: http://t.co/W7s8XUoX03 pic.twitter.com/FL23x8af34 — Jesse Brown (@JesseBrown) January 12, 2015 It’s been brewing for Lang for quite some months now.…
It’s not spring in Alberta yet, but there are hints of a spring election in the air
There were two hints yesterday that Alberta Premier Jim Prentice is edging closer to calling an early election this spring, maybe three if you’re of a particularly conspiratorial turn of…
Snake Throwing Video
When a ‘night out with the boys and snake’ goes terribly wrong, you get an international disgrace. Remember the snake thrown behind the counter at Tim Horton's Dec 8th? YEP!…
The promise and peril of digital diplomacy
The following oped was in the Globe and Mail last Friday. It is a response to the news of a new digital diplomacy initiative at the Munk School of Global…
The Hobbit Ends
I saw the last Hobbit movie on Friday, with Jeri. We had food at Montana’s just before. I had the veggie feta burger and it was very good, it tasted…
Isn’t ‘journalistic integrity’ an oxymoron?
Did you know that Shaw Media has a book of standards for its journalists? It makes you wonder why. Did you know that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation used to have…
Cheap oil’s the disaster it is for Alberta because our province is so badly run
The decline in oil prices to the sub-$50-per-barrel level may not be a pleasant experience for those of us here in Alberta, especially the Progressive Conservative rulers of our province,…