Alberta Taliban
Priceless, irretrievable, unexplored stone markings in Alberta have been intentionally destroyed by unknown criminals using methods employed by the Taliban to erase investigation of history. Vandals with power tools, acid,…
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Bad week for private companies mining for profits in health care
This hasn’t been a good week for private companies mining big profits in Canada’s health system. Quebec police are probing a hospital private-public partnership deal awarded to SNC Lavalin Group…
Off With Their Heads!!!
In HuffPost Canada today: Mask Ban Bill Nears Final Stage In House Of Commons LOL…what a joke this government is..what about face paint, or glasses, noses and moustaches..? Or, let’s…
Reality checks in – austerity plan based on exaggerated deficits
In February we attended a forum hosted by the Centre for Policy Alternatives looking at the manufactured crisis the Liberals are using to bring in a far-reaching austerity agenda. At…
Protected: Tory Defection: Tom Osborne Confirms His Uselessness
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ConCalls: CoC Federal Court
-(Federal Court, ASS. PRESS) The Council of Canadians (CoC) court challenge is fiiiinalllly underway in Federal Court this morning. Well, sort of. It’s defending itself against the Conservatives who are…
[PR Theory] Power and Public Relations
Sage Handbook of Public Relations, the main textbook for PRL 605: Public Relations Theory at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. As I noted in my last post I’m…
Camera by Bird
Here’s a nifty accidental way of getting aerial photography. A seagull steals the camera!
TrapWire, PRIME, Now Alberta Police Fingered
I was shocked, and disapointed that the CBC article today about police reports including Charter violating intel, didn’t have mention of BC’s PRIME system.
What Would Neil do?
Neil Macdonald: A mighty nation, frightened by an angry mob – So called analysis at the CBC online site…with, of course, the usual diatribes against all Muslims, everywhere, in the…
Principal Cancels Course To Prevent Gay Student From Taking It
The lengths people go to in order to stop gay people from enjoying their life… Thomas Amons, a principal for the Beaumont Independent School District’s Taylor Career and Technology Center…
RIP Premier Lougheed….and Education in Alberta
Is it just me, or is Alberta getting more and more insane all the time? Must be all those bitumen fumes..where else would a teacher be fired for doing his…
#NBCFail: A post-mortem
During the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games, viewers in the United States quickly became frustrated with the company given exclusive U.S. broadcasting rights to the games and used the hashtag…
Harper hates war resisters. We love them. Stop the deportation of Kimberly Rivera
by Peace Alliance Winnipeg During the Vietnam war, tens of thousands of American conscientious objectors sought refuge in Canada to avoid taking part in a war they could not, in…
Banking sick days and public sector unions
I’ve written previously about the idea of banking sick days, and getting a payout for them later. Now the Ontario government has passed Bill 115, which “freezes their wages, bans…
Ontario Shores says we got it all wrong
Earlier this week we ran a story about how a manager at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences had used a YouTube clip from the 2000 movie “Meet The…
Religious Right Declares War on Condoms and Wizards in Ontario
If we’re going to have religious fundamentalists trying to rabble-rouse left, right, and centre, in this country, the conservative media is going to have to figure out how to cover…
No Go Argo
When I saw the trailer for Argo, I had a flashback to the Tommy Douglas Story. It was obvious from the focus of the plot that the CIA was going…
Will new health care technology bring a utopia or dystopia?
It’s easy to get carried away with the continual promise of better health care through technology. From the IBM Watson super computer to vending machines that dispense pharmaceuticals, we are…
Immigration
Working on campus: allowed. Work a shitty job at Walmart for two weeks, and declare the income: deportation. It’s the reality that international students face in Canada. Those students placing…