- Nov 2, 2013
- 2 min
TUITION?
We actually hear a lot about tuition fees. (Of course we don’t tend to do much about the problem of tuition inflation, but it is talked...
- Jul 27, 2013
- 12 min
THE UNRAVELLING OF REX MURPHY or A SHORT LESSON IN IRONY
Rex Murphy is a Canadian icon: a Rhodes scholar, an author, a popular voice in newsprint and on national television and radio. But I...
- Jun 13, 2013
- 4 min
EARTH HOUR: IT’S NOT WHAT YOU THINK
Earth Hour, an annual event organized by the folks at The World Wildlife Fund, attempts to raise awareness of environmental issues by...
- Mar 26, 2013
- 6 min
FUEL
We seem to have bet the farm, the whole town and county too, on $100 per barrel oil. Why is that? Nobody thinks this is a terrible idea?...
- Dec 8, 2012
- 21 min
TOWARD AN OLD CONSCIOUSNESS
I was recently given a report called Toward a New Consciousness: Values to Sustain Human and Natural Communities. The work was produced...
- Nov 11, 2012
- 7 min
LEST WE REMEMBER
Some say that Remembrance Day is a time when we get to celebrate our freedom, a freedom hard-won by the brave veterans who fought and...
- Jul 8, 2012
- 8 min
I SEE WHY THEY CALLED IT A STING
So there was this news story a while back. It caught my attention as the top news item of the day on my newsfeed. The article was about...
- Dec 9, 2011
- 5 min
REMEMBERING MASSEY or FILMS NOT BOMBS
The findings of Canada’s Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences (or “the Massey Report”, if you...
- Apr 11, 2011
- 21 min
WHO’S COUNTING?: MISREPRESENTATION, FORCED VOTES, and SPOILED BALLOTS
Most folks I know, many of whom tend to avoid political discussion most of the time, can get pretty passionate about elections and voting...
- May 21, 2010
- 4 min
CULTURAL HERITAGE, CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Cultural heritage is another of those sticky concepts I get hung up on. Having looked over the United Nations Educational, Scientific and...