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Category Archives: News of the World
An Island Overrun with Prisoners and Soldiers
When William Golding imagines his feral schoolboys in Lord of the Flies, he thinks that they will inevitably shed the shallow indoctrination of the arbitrary and recently acquired rules of polite society and fall back upon their baser instincts which … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Culture, Health, News of the World, Politics
Tagged 2003 blackout, boot camp, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, hurricane katrina, Hurricane sandy, Jeremy Bentham, military, panopticon, prison rape, prison system, private prison system, William Golding Lord of the Flies, World Trade Centre bombing of 2001
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Pondering the Media During the 2022 Ottawa Trucker Convoy
The various media systems of the world are overworked, and in the case of many of them, underpaid. This is exposed by the request, below most online news stories, to report any errors. With editors in short supply, the news … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Environmentalism, Health, News of the World, Police, Politics, Social Media
Tagged 2022 Ottawa Trucker Convoy, activism, Alberta, anti-mandate, anti-vaccine, Black Lives Matter, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Corey Hurren, Coutts, fracking, Indigenous protestors Wet'suwet'en, January 6, Nazi sympathizers, New Brunswick, reconciliation, Rexton, Sammy Yatim, trucker convoy, white supremacist
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Racist Rob and Corrupt Politicians
I’d only been teaching a few years when I had a student who was so racist that I was forced to confront several of his statements in class. As anyone knows who has dealt with such behaviour, this demands a … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Ancient Peoples, Culture, Education, History, News of the World, Politics, Teaching, Winnipeg
Tagged Air-bus scandal, Brian Mulroney, Canadian Government, Colonialism, financial accountability, Indian Act, pedagogy, racism, Treaties
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Tolerance, Ethics and Conjoined Twins
On CBC radio’s The Current this morning, Anna Maria Tremonti interviewed a doctor who was responsible for the multiple surgeries that separated conjoined twins at MassGeneral Hospital for Children in Boston. The story was mostly concerned with the ethical implications … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, News of the World, Superstition
Tagged conjoined twins, intolerance, Religion, Superstition
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The Contamination of Ideas: Truth and Lies in the Internet Age
A recent encounter reminds me that notions of knowledge and how it is gained can be subjective. I was told by a young person that a documentary watched by their mother—they didn’t even see the documentary themselves—argued that there was … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Internet, Media, News, News of the World, Social Media
Tagged a New World Order, auras, birthers, Competent Receiver, contrails behind jets, Facebook bubble, fact checkers, flat earth, Fox News, H. G. Wells, holocaust denial, homeopathy, Indonesia, Malaysia, Muslim-majority countries, Muslims, post-fact world, power of prayer, prayer, refrigerator lights, santa, sunspots and climate change, the flood in Genesis, the use of fluoride, the world trade centre bombing, Trump, UFOs, vaccines, weather control, white supremacy, World Brain
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Checking Your Delusions
The method for checking our many delusions—that the Harry Potter letter is going to arrive for us any moment, that god is carefully listening to my prayers about the cancer He gave my mother, that the earth is flat, the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Culture, Internet, News of the World, Supernatural, Superstition
Tagged climate change denial, Council of Nicaea, delusions, Eratosthenes, existence of god, flat earth, flouride in the water, Harry Potter, moon landing hoax, scientific discovery, Watchmaker's Analogy, William Paley
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Waking to News about Maniacs
Since I need to be awake by nearly the same time every weekday, I have taken to setting my clock radio for nine in the morning and then listening to the morning news before I actually turn off the clock … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, News, News of the World
Tagged Edmonton terrorism, Jeffrey C. Hall, Kenya, Michael Rosbash, Michael W. Young, Nobel Prize, Physiology or Medicine, Rebecca Lolosoli, Shooting in Las Vegas, TedTalk, Umoja, Vesna Milosevic-Zdjelar – Astrophysicist
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A Shared Politics of Fear and Hate
Although Canadians have little actual stake in the American election, there is much shared sentiment on both sides of the border. Following the lead of the American media, many Canadians declare themselves to be supporters of one candidate or another, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Internet, News of the World, Politics, Social Media
Tagged A Short History of Indians in Canada, anti-immigrant, conspiracy, desegregation, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Jim Crow, media, racism, Survivor, Thomas King
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Donald Trump and the Conspiracy of Nonsense
The internet is so effective at the promulgation of conspiracy theories we almost think it might have been made for that purpose. Marshall McLuhan suggests that each of our technologies simply extend our own abilities, just as a spear extends … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, News, News of the World, Superstition
Tagged anti-vaccine, Birther, democrat, Donald Trump, George Bush, global climate change denier, Hillary Clinton, Justin Raimondo, nomination, presidency, republican, white house
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Marching Against Bill C-51
I don’t think it’s a secret that Canada is shifting into something other than what most of us expected. We always touted Canada as a country that was less warlike than the US, the neighbour we most like to compare … Continue reading