Category: Politics
Happiness Is A Cold Gun
Angry Churchgoers In The Public Sphere
Thoughts on the Truro Shorts Thing
Everything Has Social Consequences
A Plea To Save The CBC

Here’s an interesting article from someone who wants to save the CBC….but why bother? *** Source: Huffington Post Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and Radio-Canada staff across the country are bracing for deep cuts today, as the public broadcaster aims to respond to an estimated $100-million revenue shortfall in the next…
Major Cuts To CBC

If you thought Canadian television was boring before…It’s about to get worse. *** Source: www.cbc.ca Funding shortfalls and revenue losses have forced CBC/Radio-Canada to cut $130 million from its budget this year, a move that will eliminate 657 jobs over the next two years and take the network out of…
Putting The Town Back In Springhill
Russia’s Anexation of Crimea Deemed Illegal

I can’t believe it took them that long to figure this out. *** Source: Globe and Mail In a sweeping rebuke of Moscow, the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday overwhelmingly affirmed Ukraine’s territorial integrity and deemed the referendum that led to Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula illegal. The…
What Will Putin Do Next?

Source: Reuters – Russian President Vladimir Putin, defying Ukrainian protests and Western sanctions, signed a treaty on Tuesday making Crimea part of Russia but said he did not plan to seize any other regions of Ukraine. In a fiercely patriotic address to a joint session of parliament in the Kremlin,…