Headline in a Vancouver Sun article: “This university is a hotbed of anti-Semitism.” Isn’t that just terrible. What’s wrong with the administration in that university? Well, actually, nothing. I strongly suspect that the average students at that university have other things on their minds. Picturing this institution as a hotbed of racism could even be…
Month: March 2024
Politics
Let’s Hit the Twit
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Stay Short and to the Point I wouldn’t bother to post this, but what played out this week is exactly what I was trashing last week: Politicking. For the past week the Leader of the Opposition has pronounced proudly, over and over, his threats as to what he was going to do if the Liberals…
Politics, Social Commentary
Carbon Tax
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And now the next battle in the war that will absorb the next few generations. The Liberal government made a promise years ago to introduce a carbon tax to restrict the use of carbon fuels. They set out to introduce the tax slowly at a rate they thought the public would accept, and in two…
Social Commentary
What Is Mindfulness?
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Apparently, one of the skills of good journalism is to repackage research several different ways for different readers. In pursuit of this goal, my blog today is on the topic of the book I reviewed last week: “Breaking Through, Master Your Default Mode and Thrive,” by Hosein Kouros-Mehr, MD, PhD. Except my title today is…
Social Commentary
Leap Day Salaries
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I’ve been in the workforce for over 60 years, in jobs from the most union-oriented hourly wage to contracts where I was my own boss. While I usually take the workers’ side in employment matters, this is one where I side with fairness to the employer. This nonsense about salaried workers getting extra for working…