Rethinking Education
Chomsky is right: in the Western world, what we call our “education” system, is in practice a system of indoctrination. This is its primary result, regardless of good intentions or…
Chomsky is right: in the Western world, what we call our “education” system, is in practice a system of indoctrination. This is its primary result, regardless of good intentions or…
Loyal subjects: that is what we have been trained to be – first to the British Empire, then to the American Empire, and now, to Beijing and the global coporate…
After some time away, the Magpie Brûlé is back with a new season. In this episode, I go into the news of the past week from Kamloops, the reaction nation…
For months now media, pundits and many Canadians have been speculating about when the next Federal Election may come. Some thought it would have come already, pinning their bets on…
Yesterday in Ontario we got some big news about the state of our fight against COVID and one part in particular; schools. Schools in most of the province have been…
There was a period following WWII when we approached utopia. Well, OK, maybe that’s overstating it, but we had created probably the finest society, in terms of the economic welfare…
I used to know how much a child’s casket cost because we had to fund raise so often for burials. https://t.co/OTh4zStsLy — Cindy Blackstock (@cblackst) June 1, 2021 “There Are…
It’s been almost a week since news broke in the media of the discovery of the remains of 215 children in an unmark, mass grave on the grounds of the…
This has been a hard week mentally and emotionally for a lot of us, and I have to admit that it’s wearing on me. If you’ve heard some of my…
The news has been a little overwhelming for me in the last few days. Residential schools, MMIWG issues and the 100th anniversary of the bombing of Black Wall Street in…
A new visual to show Saskatchewan's vaccination disparity by gender. Since data is released weekly I've stacked each week's release on top of the other to show the accumulation. Notice…
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Lindsay Maskell & Tim Powers for “Political Heat” panel. We talked the Ford Governments naming of a new Chief…
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Lisa Kirbie. We discussed the news of the discovery of remains…
A Radio Ad Running in Saskatchewan Says Residential School Trauma Is a Myth, & I'm Pretty Sure No One's Noticed, Nevermind Concerned? https://t.co/rR813u866c — Tammy Robert (@tammyrobert) September 23, 2018…
Half of the world’s people live in the countryside. Three quarters of the people living in poverty live in the countryside. Two-thirds of the income of the rural poor comes…
Are you familiar with John Cena? If not, good for you; he’s not really worth knowing about. So for the uninitiated, John Cena is a former professional wrestler. According to…
On Friday I was happy to record the latest episode of Bluesky Strategy Group’s “What You Need to Know: A #CdnPolicast” with my colleagues Neil Brodie and Alyson Fair. We…
What is libertarian socialism, and why should we be interested? Libertarian socialism is a long term goal, I would say, agreeing with Chomsky, who is the most prominent libertarian socialist…
A normal country would declare several days of mourning after a mass grave of children was discovered. — Nora Loreto (@NoLore) May 29, 2021 Canada is a normal settler-colonial country…
As I have said elsewhere, I don’t do a lot of finger-pointing at oil companies when placing the blame for global warming. They produce the oil and gas because we…