August 2010
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June 2009
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WatchGepe - ‘Victoria Roma’ (Dir. Ignacio Rojas & Christopher Murray)
April 2009
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March 2009
5 posts
Watchclaytoncubitt:
‘powerlinerflyers’ - wes johnson
If those birds were aware of how postmodern they look, they’d probably blush. If birds could blush.
February 2009
2 posts
WatchLykke Li covering Kings of Leon, “Knocked Up”
“Beauty isn’t beauty if it doesn’t inspire awe for a specific...”
– Art Critic Peter Schjeldahl
January 2009
3 posts
December 2008
3 posts
“The American Public has a Right to Know That They... →
Harper proposed coalition with Bloc Quebecois in 2004 - The Hook
Excerpt from a 2004 letter from Harper to the Governor General:
“We respectfully point out that the opposition parties, who together constitute a majority in the House, have been in close consultation. We believe that, should a request for dissolution arise this should give you cause, as constitutional practice has...
November 2008
5 posts
Labour and Social Justice 12
via Janet Steffenhagen:
The B.C. Federation of Labour passed the following emergency resolution today at its annual convention, offering support for Social Justice 12 and blasting the Abbotsford board of education. The resolution states:
BECAUSE the Abbotsford School Board has demonstrated homophobic and transphobia behaviour by preventing the instruction of the Ministry of Education approved...
October 2008
14 posts
Chrysotile asbestos stays off global... →
The world’s second-largest chrysotile producer, Canada, was the only Western democracy that opposed adding it to the list during the last round of talks in 2006.
NDP MP Pat Martin said Tuesday the Canadian delegation did not even participate in the discussions this year but got others to work on their behalf instead.
He accused the Canadians of browbeating developing nations such as India,...
Sorry about our pollution... Have some money!
Under the headline “Harper vows $100M to fight climate change” follows a story that has nothing to do with fighting climate change, which the Prime Minister Harper’s government has steadfastly refused to do. Rather than writing laws to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions, Harper wants to give money to poor countries, which like the rest, have to deal with the...
Recently, as I was finishing reading Milan Kundera’s novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, I came across a news item regarding a recently surfaced intelligence report showing that Kundera informed on a suspected spy in the Czech Republic in 1950 when he was a student. Kundera has broken his customary media silence to deny the report.
Regardless of whether or not he did behave as the...
Concerned educator describes BC offshore school in...
Via Janet Steffenhagen:
- Has no library. (“When inspectors are present, the school has a staff member sit at a desk equipped with an unplugged computer monitor to give the impression that she is stationed at the entrance to a non-existent library.”)
- Requires teachers to provide texts and other materials at their own expense. (“There are courses with no support materials...
“A Thanksgiving Prayer” - William S....