Index

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Canada’s Indian Residential School System
The Rot Of Anarchism
The Iraq War
Today, Judgement Has Been Rendered Against You
The Roller Derby
3 Things You Didn’t Know About Islam
A Matter of Time
Of Whisky, Pastis, Wagers, and Age
John Lennon
A Whiff of Grapeshot
The Simple Beauty of Human Solidarity
The Iron Teeth of Necessity
A Shame Indeed: The Persecution of Christians Considered
When Moral Courage Makes a Difference
Ratko Mladić: How Civilizations Tumble
Augie and the March for Life
Ottawa mixes platitudes with parsimony for Canada’s veterans
J. S. Woodsworth’s War of Another Sort
What difference does it make what Michael Ignatieff says?
Belhassen Trabelsi — a criminal, not a refugee
Wildrose adds to politics’ rich history of gaffedom
Anders Breivik: When Sane People Do Mad Things
The great achievement of the Charter
Feeding the Sparrows Through the Horses***
Nickels and Dimes
Austerity: Good for Everyone Else
The Buncombe Struggle
Canada still lacks the political will to curb sexual abuse
Pension Panic
The Enemies of Convenience
The ICC Works, But Only For Some
The Non-Solutions of Minister Raitt
Let the Giver Beware
The Legend of Old Snoozy
No Country for Old Media
Is The Cold War Really Over?
Endings and Beginnings
How Different are Anna Hazare and Mohandas Gandhi?
Michele Bachmann’s Line Item Lord
Debate: do we even know how to do it?
The TCDSB and a Collision with Basic Human Decency
Britain and the Illegitimacy of Fascism
How Writers Write
The ridiculous trial of John Galliano
Why so many pros write so badly
Mel Gibson’s Holy War
Palestinian Statehood: a plague on your houses
The Curious Case of Saudi Arabia
Tim Hudak Wraps Up the Neanderthal Vote
Class Warfare Comes Home
Steve Jobs: an imperfect perfectionist
Commemorating The War of 1812
Linda Sobeh Ali
Gaddafi: The Last of the Longest Rule
Watch Yourself, Canada
From Kabul to Kingston
It’s Time For Canadians to Educate Themselves
As Tibet Burns
The Two Row Wampum and the Two-Headed Serpent
Living in the Age of The Endless War
Herman Cain and the Lessons of Bill Clinton
Why Are the Feds Spying on Cindy Blackstock?
When Toddlers Save the World
Joyful Notes from the Occupation’s Edge
It’s the Time for a Proper Network Battle
The Race is Not to the Swift
Canada’s Wakeup Robocall
Some Education Could Do Some Good
The Taxonomy of Us and Them
Keeping an Eye on the Panopticon
Looking Back At 500 Episodes of The Simpsons
Dr. Depression’s Bitter Elixir Now Available in Ontario
What Getting Tough on Crime is Really About
One Empty Chair and Many Empty Words
The Enduring Catholic Lie
The Doormat of the Evil Empire
Iran, While We’re Making Other Plans
Mitt Romney and the Grey Leg-Face Man in the Room
Going Back to Welcome Back Kotter
The Crown-First Nations Gathering
The Keystone Kops and the Kase for Ethical Oil
Canada’s Eighth Step to Roseau River
The Once and Future Glory of the Liberal Party of Canada
Pakistan: Land of Pure Cynicism
The Richard Smoke Trial
Stephen Hawking, Science, and the Limits of Intelligence
The World’s Most Serious Threat
Rick Santorum and the Republicans’ Kennedy Problem
The View From 2011
Holding Out for the Bloodless Revolution
Remembering Christopher Hitchens
Of Christmas and the Parker 51
The Niqab in Living Colour
In Defence of Complexity
Looking Back at Pearl Harbour
Onkwehonwe-Neha
Stuck In The Middle With You
Doing the Math in Attawapiskat
Notes On Adulthood In A Time Of Stress
The People Versus The Minister of Nothing
The Pillow Book
Are Canadians Rubes?
Scott Schuman Throws A Curve
Is Fox News Coming To Canada?
The Sundae And The Mere Production Of Happiness
Looking Back At Nirvana
19th Century British Photographs
C.D. Howe And The Three-Point Tempest
The Lost Art Of Penmanship
Autopoetics
Bill Hicks and the Comedy of Wishing Things Were Otherwise
The Sponsorship Scandal Still Matters
So What If Quebec Separates?
Why Do We Put Up With The Weather?
Remembering Jack Layton: 1950-2011
Tim Hudak and I Learned Growing Up Normal
How to Look at Canada’s Residential School Archives
The Harper Government: Merchants of Death
The London Riots and the Exhaustion of Political Discourse
“Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome”
Blah blah blah Nycole Turmel blah blah
Crazy, Stupid, Love and the Comedy of Middle Aged Failure
The Vacation and the Big Picture
Anders Behring Breivik: when an enemy of your enemy …
John Baird Raises His Red Lantern
The Longer U2 is Around …
The Protestant Work Ethic Versus This Bottle of Wine
In Which I Lose My Passport and Very Nearly Also My Mind
Abolishing the Indian Act
The Derelict Honourary Chief of the Blood Tribe
News of the World and the Ethics of Journalism
How the Women Die
Interview
The Real Losers and the Phony Winners
The Problem with Identity Politics
Our CUPW Runneth Empty
Michael Ondaatje and The English Patience
Is Canada Post Obsolete?
Ulysses, Bloomsday, and the Best of All Literary Parties
Indian Affairs Gets a Gender Reassignment
Considering Brigette Marcelle DePape
The Kindness of Sinister Bitterness
When the Bookish Finish Last
Before the Mall Was the Beach
It’s Time Israel Took Some Orders
The Tedious Presbyterianism of Government
From the Olympian Classifieds
Fish Wrote a Poem
The Hegelian Tragedy of Drummondville
How We Shall Pay for the Left’s Moral Failure
The Inner World of the World Wide Web
The Multiculturalism Manoevre
Newt Gingrich’s Last Grasp
A Couple Questions For Mike Huckabee
Remembering Rick Martin
The Haudenosaunee | Part Three, That Which Divides Us
Never Mind The Scandals
Scrapping The Social Media
I Give You Mr. Charles McVety
Ron Paul: The Dave Matthews Band of American Politics
An Unwelcome Birthday Gift For Kim Jong Il
Stephen Harper’s Kairos Smear Campaign
Gaddafi: The Last Of The Longest Rule
The Decay Of Poetry In The Year Of Revolution
As If Nothing Could Matter More
Justice From Now On
Mayor Chris Friel and The Two Row Wampum
Wisconsin’s Battle Is A War For America
The Haudenosaunee | Part One, Origins
The Haudenosaunee | Part Two, Ohentonkariwatehkwen
The King’s Speech and The Revenge of Metaphor
Jake Swamp, A Man of Roots
An Apology for the Constitutional
The Killing of Salman Taseer
It’s The End Of The World Again
Would Those Opposing Mr. Twain Please Stand Up
Martin Luther King Jr. At Eighty-Two
The Tunis Commitment, The Commitment to Tunisia
The Obituary
Oujé-Bougoumou
And Now For Something Completely Different
The Continuing Story Of A Continuing Relationship
What Egyptians Will Remember
The Koch Brothers: Drinking Your Milkshake
Why Barack Obama Makes Me Miss George W. Bush
Whither the Book?
The Name Is A Vestige (a play)
The Compulsion to Write
The Haudenosaunee
Where The Stink Comes From
Jane Goodall
How Can You Call This Justice?
Michael Ignatieff: You Can’t Have It Both Ways
Just Say No To The War On Drugs
The Diminishing Marginal Utility of Torture
The Klan Comes to Campbellford
On Not Being There
Going Home
The Flanagan Slip
On Turning Forty-Five
Movember Musings
Good Things, Bad Things, and the Ayodhya Dispute
Beck and Call
Jihadism: Now Made in Canada
The Dick Cavett Show
Democracy Comes to Kyrgyzstan
The Politics of Cowards
The Bigotry of Dr. Dobson
Tyler Clementi and the Hollow Talk of Diversity
What Shortwave Radio Taught Me About “DADT”
Burning Down the House
Gun Talk, Stephen Harper, and the Usefulness of Hate
To Frances Widdowson and Associates
Kingston, Ontario
Eleanor Brass: I Walk In Two Worlds
A Faggot On The Alexandra Bridge
The Confessions of a University Drop-Out
Old Things
Big Knives
The Mush Hole
My Grandmother
Milton Rogovin
What The Media Won’t Tell You About The Oka Crisis
Democracy Makes the Best Television
Authenticating the Subject: Inside Out
‘My Canada includes …’
Sarah Palin
The Potter’s Field of Form: Catherine Kidd …
Of Truth and Reconciliation
Capitalism: For and Against
Empowerment of the Individual
Keep Turning A While
How I Survived My Education
Ontario Under the Harris Government
The Irrelevance of the Vatican
Call It What You Will — And I’ll Call It Racism
The Life and Times of Bertrand Russell
Celebrities, Coltan, and the Trial of Charles Taylor
In All Due Disrespect
A Little More Science, If You Please
Remembering Who You Are: The Synedochic Self
The Impossibility of Human Happiness
The Angry Canadian
In Bill Gates’s World
Ottawa — Random Notes Toward A Portrait
Indentured Slaves of the Fox Empire
Men’s Fashion
Canadian History if Necessary
Of Roads and Rage
Why the US Should Not Apologize for the Atom Bomb
The G20 and the Bullet Dodged
CSIS: Getting It Right, Through Accident
Omar Ahmed Khadr: Crimes in a Time of War
The Potter’s Field of Form, Part Two
Apologanemia
Facebook, Narcissism, and a Sociologist for Hire
Goya and Me
Pablo Neruda
No Matter How Many Victims It Takes
Reading Chekhov’s Stories
The Tea Party Rot
Of Youth and Age
In Praise Of Garbage
All In A Day’s Work
The Ground Zero Mosque
Shopping Around
E. B. White
An Interview with Heather Menzies
Food Crimes
The Afghan War Diary
Speech For The Graduating Class
Keeping One Step Ahead
On the Vanity of Writers
Roma and the Debts of History
Making Love
Christie Blatchford
The Untouchables
Supposing It Happens
The Adult And The Child
Learning How
The High Arctic Relocation
The Pleasure of Idleness
The White Bread Case Against Gender Inclusion
Society and the Individual: Liberals vs Conservatives
Today, A Poem
The Secret Life of Work
The Grassroots Always Look Greener
The Bullies
Homelessness Considered
June Fourth Thoughts
A View from the Stadium: Politics and Sport
Pop Culture: an essay
Downsizing and The Dollar Store
A Good Thing
An Expansion of the Mind
(Big) Business As Usual
Democracy à la Disney
A Winter of Discontent
Native in Niagara
Thirty-One Years Too Many
Encounter with the State
Seeing The Light
The Laundromat
Playing With Fire
Commonplacing Considered
In Praise of Rice
Fooling Ourselves
Raising Cain

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