A Puff of Absurdity: People’s Climate March Update
“If you don’t fight for what you want, then you deserve what you get.” – Disruption The People’s Climate March is in one week. The 50-minute film, Disruption, is a motivating force to inspire people...
View ArticleScott's DiaTribes: Interview with Cathy MacLellan, Liberal Nomination...
One of the advantages of going to a LPC(O) Conference is you sometimes unexpectedly meet candidates or nomination contestants. That was the case this past weekend in London when through an...
View ArticleYappa Ding Ding: Horrible Regional Signage is Causing Construction Chaos
The Ion LRT is going to take three long years to build, three years of construction and traffic jams, three years of mud, three years of inconvenience and unpleasantness. The process started a few...
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: On Achievement and Death and Stuff
First, a bit about boredom: “Boredom may lead you to anything. After all, boredom even sets one to sticking gold pins into people…one may choose what is contrary to one’s own interest…one’s own fancy,...
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: On Those Statues Again
There are dueling petitions out to continue (which curiously disappeared) and stop statues of all 22 prime ministers being planted on the grounds of Wilfrid Laurier University, my old school that I...
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: On Unions and Boycotts
The elementary schools in our board have decided to boycott the local paper because one columnist has been known to take a decidedly negative view of teachers. So a local MPP, Michael Harris,...
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: Saving Cyclists’ Lives
It seems like every year we have cycling deaths in our community. In the past, the local paper reporting has held a subtle anti-cycling stance, but this summer, some tragic accidents have been clearly...
View ArticleYappa Ding Ding: Horrible Regional Signage is Causing Construction Chaos
The Ion LRT is going to take three long years to build, three years of construction and traffic jams, three years of mud, three years of inconvenience and unpleasantness. The process started a few...
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: Saving Cyclists’ Lives
It seems like every year we have cycling deaths in our community. In the past, the local paper reporting has held a subtle anti-cycling stance, but this summer, some tragic accidents have been clearly...
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: Water Wars and the Last Straw
The next world wars won't be about land or oil. They'll be about water. And Canada could be the next Iraq, invaded and decimated for the abundance of our natural resources. We have to stop corporate...
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: On Sugar and Socialization
An Agenda discussion on sugar use is timely for me. I typically let students eat something small and healthy in class to tide them over until lunch, but, in one class this semester, I ended up having...
View ArticleYappa Ding Ding: Horrible Regional Signage is Causing Construction Chaos
The Ion LRT is going to take three long years to build, three years of construction and traffic jams, three years of mud, three years of inconvenience and unpleasantness. The process started a few...
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: On Sugar and Socialization
An Agenda discussion on sugar use is timely for me. I typically let students eat something small and healthy in class to tide them over until lunch, but, in one class this semester, I ended up having...
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: On Having the Lowest Graduation Rates
This recent article in my local paper tells us that our region is lowest in the province for graduation rates. ON FIFTH YEAR RATES They worry that “Students who did graduate also took longer to do so...
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: Bigotry and Violence in K-W
I stayed in the small town I was born in, and it got big around me. Like parents of young kids, who fall into the trap of continuing to see them as they were so many years ago, I still think of K-W as...
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: Oh–What’s a Teacher to Do?
Starting next Friday, secondary students in my board will be forced to be in a room with about 15 other students they might not know, many of whom will take off their masks for a 45 minute mid-morning...
View ArticlePop The Stack: Strategic Voting in a Toss-Up Riding
Just had a very nice chat with one of my local candidates for #Elxn44 in #KitchenerCentre. It was @morricemike of the @CanadianGreens. He does bookable short calls with voters to talk about issues....
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: Strep A Causing Fatalities in the Region
Last December, I wrote a few times (here, here, here, and here) about strep becoming more invasive and deadly if it follows a Covid case–even if it’s mild or asymptomatic Covid–after 15 kids across the...
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: Why Ranked Ballots Make Sense
I believe that WRDSB has a committee formed to determine the process to appoint two new trustees. I’ve been actively avoiding following the news on all this, but I do want to respond to the suggesting...
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: Fraud Fest in Waterloo Region
Catherine Fife and Debbie Chapman speaking to protesters. It feels like we turned a dark corner in Ontario. In my hometown in particular. Doug Ford came to K-W to be greeted by tons of protesters...
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