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The draft of this article was written nearly five months ago.  A great deal has happened since then, not least, the firing of President Ilene Busch-Vishniak.   A recent comment on the TransformUs Facebook Page that suggested that she deserved to be treated with respect as a former leader persuades me to finally publish this clear […]

The following open letter was distributed to the participants in the University of  Saskatchewan General, Academic Assembly, in Convocation Hall, on Wednesday April 9th, 2014: Four Questions and a comment from a taxpayer             As a citizen of Canada and a twenty-year resident of this province of, I am alarmed by some recent actions unelected […]

Like the cynical Newspeak* titles of the Harper regime’s many schemes to plunder the public good and to “streamline government” by dismantling regulations and scientific and democratic checks, the very title of the University of Saskatchewan’s “Transform US” is a lie.  “Transformation” suggests a creative process, a renewal.  The awkward juxtaposition of the collective pronoun […]

In The World until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies, Jared Diamond makes a startling statement which spoiled my relationship with a fellow student and the professor of  a university course I was auditing.  They were incredulous and indignant when I passed on his observation that the members of indigenous groups he interviewed […]

I was startled by a brief, new item in Tuesday night’s 10 PM CBC’ News a report  that thousands of  photographs  of corpses of  “detainees” of Syria’s Assad regime bearing clear evidence of starvation and torture had been smuggled out on USB sticks. This first report was immediately followed by longer items about home insurance rates […]

As much as I dislike the word blaawwg……there are a few things that I need to say. Many, actually. About what a beautiful day it is.  It is sunny, it is a temperate 5C (yes +5C) outside, and even the wind is a mere 10-15 km/hour.as dear dog Gina – still beautiful and a bit […]