Category: Analytic Ranting

Inventing delusions.

And so the saga of Fournier ends with an errant balloon worth hundreds of thousands of euros drifting away into the sky, untethered from its gondola. If you have been following along at all you will know that Fournier is the French adventurer who… Continue Reading “Inventing delusions.”

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Where are the workers?

One of the only chances I get to watch movies these days is mid-flight. Not that I don’t enjoy watching films but it’s something I rarely prioritize in my over-scheduled life. While I used to never bother with in-flight movies because of the poor… Continue Reading “Where are the workers?”

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Arise!

Happy May Day to all 🙂 Rather than go to work, I’ve got an all-day union meeting and then I’m speaking at the Commercial Drive May Day festivities this evening. Which is about as close as we ever get to celebrating International Workers’ Day… Continue Reading “Arise!”

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Of candy and faith.

When I was a child, I had an elderly aunt (a Great-Aunt in fact) who lived down the long dirt road into Eagle Bay, BC. Twenty miles off the highway to Salmon Arm, on the edge of Shuswap Lake, this was the country of… Continue Reading “Of candy and faith.”

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A threat is a threat except on Facebook?

Last week, an old friend of mine from the TAO days testified at a trial in Toronto as a “Facebook expert” in a case involving a man who has been accused of making threats (including death threats) against the Children’s Aid Society and a… Continue Reading “A threat is a threat except on Facebook?”

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