Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed your previous visits. Let me know how can I help you to find what you were looking for. Don't forget to download the Best 7 WP Tutorials in this ebook.
Just a quick note about the launch of my newest project: The Pension Report. You can get your free copy by filling out the form on the right.
You may ask why did I start this unusual project. …
Just a few days before the beginning of the Olympic Games the world suddenly discovered that the Chinese authorities will not allow uncensored internet access during the games. It is hardly a surprize for anyone with a little brain.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and all the media was completely wrong …
Did it ever happen to you that you were at home the whole day, quietly writing something on your computer, no radio, no TV on… and then you go out to check the mailbox and there is a printed message paper stating that they tried to deliver a letter or …
Maybe it was the title, maybe my earlier posts (and preoccupation) regarding Muslims — but I was really looking forward to this new Canadian TV show, the Little Mosque on the Prairie. This is a novelty, because I have to …
I don’t know about you but around this time of every year, I mean just as the old one ends and the new year begins, I always get tired of two things: the ranking mania and the resolutions.
All the newspapers and magazines, TV-shows, even the blogs are full of top …
Just for the record: Stephen Harper, the prime minister of Canada, doesn’t know me. And I don’t know him personally, either. The reason I am writing this post is because I watched his TV interview last night on CTV and I read this morning about his Christmas card in the Winnipeg Free Press. You might not like him or his party but you have to admit - he stands up for what he believes in.
There was a section of the interview about the Middle East. According to the transcript:
Harper said he’s prepared to help Palestinians through channels like non-governmental organizations [... and] “But I think all of the civilized world is agreed — and it’s not just Canada — we can’t deal with organizations whose principle and only objective is the eradication of the other side.”
Now I have been on both ends of humanitarian aid. First, while living under a Communist dictatorship we got food and medicine to be able to survive and, information. Yes, information, like books, magazine - to keep our sanity. I can’t be grateful enough for all that was done for us by unknown people and organizations. Everything was brought (read: smuggled) and distributed to individuals, churches, nothing through the government. Reminder: for me, a dictatorship is just that, regardless of its colour: be it on the left or right or established by religious fanatics!
Since the PM, Stephen Harper mentioned the word nation a few days ago in his speech, referring to Qu�bec - the word made an astonishing “career”: last time I heard it on the TV news it became “the N-word“. To this stupidity the only normal reaction would be the f-word…
Diligent journalists dug up encyclopedias and dictionaries to clarify the etymology and the nuances of the word. Its meanings in different languages has been analyzed and explained. And the debate about the “united” Canada is up again. Maybe we are not that united…?
Let me add my version.
I am coming from a place that suffered a lot because of the French. Countries were cut up, borders re-drawn, artificial states created. And wars fought. I dare to say: if it wasn’t for the French foolishness at the peace treaties from Versailles and Trianon at the end of WWI - probably the second World War would never happened.
I don’t like the French.
When you say gloire - I think xenophobia.
When you say liberté, égalité, fraternité - I think nationalism and chauvinism.
When you say la nation - I think nation state (with the opression of the ethnic minorities).
Two news items from these days: one local, one national.
1. The Crocus investors were demonstrating in front of the legislature building in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
2. The government decided to change the tax rules for income trusts. A lot of comments after.
Crocus
I can feel …
In the last couple of days it has been all over in the media the “happy” state of Canada: the University of Leicester produced the first-ever ‘world map of happiness‘ and our country ranked #10.
You can read more about the study conducted by Adrian White, an analytic social psychologist …
First I wanted to put the word moderate in quotes. As if they were not really moderate. On a second thought I realized that, actually, they indeed are moderate, so much so that this self-moderation is the core problem.
Here is the latest. A Winnipeg Jewish group plans to present a …
What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis
