Tag Archives: history

Saturday Snap – The Risks of Doing An Election-Themed Display

I mean I’m not personally a fan of the guy but we happened to have Justin Trudeau’s autobiography in our collection so I put it on an election-themed display I did (along with a range of books about various topics and issues that are important to supporters of all parties this election season.  I also […]

Friday Fun Link – Arkanoid, Cosmic Avenger, Wayne Gretzky Hockey II

Pace and I have spent the evening watching YouTube videos of the video games I loved as a kid – here are YouTube videos of three of my all-time favourites:    

Perhaps The Single Richest Irony of the Current Federal Election?

The most ironic (and frustrating and hypocritical) thing in this entire election is Liberal supporters who are saying a vote for Jagmeet Singh and the NDP is somehow a vote for Andrew Scheer – as if they hadn’t made electoral reform a *major* plank of their last platform (a platform that got them elected because […]

Music Monday – “It’s just spend a buck to make a buck/You don’t really give a flying fuck/About the people in misery”

“Call It Democracy” – Bruce Cockburn

My Daughter Could Teach The Prime Minister A Thing Or Two About Acceptable Facial Makeup!

Saturday Snap – The (Nightmare) When You’re Back in High School #cndpoli #elxn43

It’s referring to the high school he attended, not the private school he taught at. But the title of the prologue in a recent biography published about Justin Trudeau with his participation is pretty ironic given the recent brownface scandal that broke when a picture of Trudeau wearing makeup to look like Aladdin during an […]

Friday Fun Link – Jagmeet Singh: The Colour of Politics (CBC The Fifth Estate) #cndpoli #elxn43

 

How To Talk To Kids About Race

 

The Only Connection Between 9/11 and Christmas?

9/11 might be the favourite day of the year for the conspiracy-minded posters on  r/conspiracy. 🙂

Eating With The World’s Most Isolated Tribe

We live in a pretty amazing world where I can use some of the world’s most advanced technology – the Internet, YouTube, wifi – to watch a video clip about one of the world’s most primitive societies.