As we head towards a massively important election on Tuesday, I’ve been thinking about the differences between liberals and conservatives. Here’s a couple videos on the differences and why:
As a former Calgarian who often worked closely with the city’s librarians via my role at the Writers Guild of Alberta (a highlight of my time in Calgary was being invited by one librarian to be her “community guest” at the opening of a new suburban branch that features a speech by well-known author and […]
Reddit has a sub-Reddit called /r/ExplainLikeImFive where the goal is to convey complex ideas in a way that even a child (or a typical Redditor?) can understand. Someone compiled some of the best explanations the site has provided in a single post.
Usually, the “Homegrown” sign at my library helps identify a display of Saskatchewan books or perhaps a display of books about gardening or agriculture or something along those lines. But with the legalization of marijuana this week, we found another way to use this sign… 🙂
Dollar Street, from the GapMinder Foundation, uses a well-designed interface to help counter misconceptions about different income levels in the world. Their main point is that people don’t uniformly live in “poor” or “rich” countries like most of us tend to think but that people actually share similar lifestyles, items that they own, and things they […]
As I type this, Democrats have a 75% chance of taking the House of Representatives and a 20% chance of taking the Senate in the US midterm elections which happen in just under a month. In the wake of the Brett Kavanaugh decision, here’s hoping that women (and men who recognize the injustice that was done […]
Frightening: “We’re Moving to Higher Ground” – America’s Era of Climate-Inspired Mass Migration is Here “Five Feet High and Rising” – Johnny Cash
Especially with what we’re seeing in the States with an alleged pedophile endorsing an accused rapist [edit: Kavanagh’s story is blowing up tonight with two new accusers coming forward and *way* worse allegations] who was picked by a serial adulterer (among Trump’s many other mortal sins) – all as part of the party of “family values” – […]
Longtime NDP member, former Sask NDP party president and candidate for office and party leader, Yens Pedersen, won the byelection in Regina Northeast yesterday to boost the number of Saskatchewan NDP MLAs to 13. My first introduction to Pedersen was when he competed against Ryan Meili for Leader of the Saskatchewan NDP in 2009. At […]
