May 2313 min read
I'M ALL FOR BURNING BOOKS (AND SO ARE YOU)
You read that right. I’m all for burning books, as I'm pretty sure you are. Just because you can conjure a pithy line you heard in a film...
May 142 min read
SYSTEMIC OR DISCRETE?
For years we were hearing about the replication crisis in the world of psychology; how so much accepted work in the field had never been...
May 136 min read
JOURNALISM AND PERCEPTION or REMEMBERING JOHN PILGER
Thinking about journalism and public perception, I was reminded today that in 1979 Australian journalist John Pilger entered Cambodia....
May 87 min read
TRINITY
I haven’t written anything about the encampments, the ones that have sprung up seemingly over night, like springtime mushrooms, on the...
Apr 2814 min read
GAZALIGHTING or WHO ARE YOUR HEROES?
No one finds it the least bit interesting when folks suddenly flip reality on its head and offer up the very arguments they just finished...
Apr 179 min read
SOLVED
Last September the CMHC came out with a study suggesting that for Canada to reach housing affordability last seen 20 years ago “an...
Apr 175 min read
REDUCTION OR PRODUCTION?
If you’re the chief coroner, hold an executive position in public health, or are the independent representative for children and youth or...
Apr 112 min read
PREDICTING THE FUTURE
On April 12th, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld sent George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice and email titled “Predicting the Future.” The...
Apr 112 min read
UP 2,245%
In Canada, any person or entity responsible for moving money around has obligations to help combat money laundering and the financing of...
Apr 312 min read
DISHONOURABLE DISCHARGE
Deborrah Smallrich — former army intelligence officer, new mother, and her household’s sole breadwinner — decided to leave her husband...