View from the Edge

As a final follow up on the story of the Pasternak twins from Winnipeg, the girls received news this week that the were cut from the team. To refresh the stories I’ve blogged about previously, this past June Amy and Jesse Pasternak have spent the …

Well, it looks as though the new hardware is installed, and happily serving your requests.  If you are reading this note at either http://blog.globalparadigm.info/ or http://www.globalparadigm.info/, then this message was served to you from my new server.  In theory, it should be transparent to the user (although if anyone has been having trouble with the […]

My new server has arrived finally, so I’ll be spending the next few days migrating both my blog, and the Global Paradigm magazine, from the old hardware to the new stuff. I’ll do my best to make this as seamless as possible for you readers, but there’s no getting around a little bit of down […]

I doubt anyone has mistaken the President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, for someone gifted in diplomatic speech. He’s never been one to shy away from speaking his mind, but his recent comments during a CBC interview in Canada might seem, at first glance, to go beyond the pale. Speaking about Canadian causalities in […]

Sometime last evening (I am thinking it happened around 6PM on Sept 25th, but I can’t get an accurate time) the 10000th person to visit my blog page hosted by Wordpress (don’t worry if you read my blog at Global Paradigm instead … GP is my main blog page, and Wordpress is just a mirror […]

One of my favorite sections of Salon.com is the War Room. Tim Grieve and Glenn Greenwald do an excellent job of sorting through much of the political crap that goes on in Washington, and I find that, even as a Canadian, I am fascinated by some of the intrigue.
Today’s War Room has a couple […]

On the Big Picture with Avi Lewis this week, he had the Canadian premiere of Richard Dawkins‘ documentary, The Root of all Evil, discussing the dangers of religion in general. Unlike other authors on the subject, Dawkins doesn’t separate the radical fundamentalists in a religion from the moderates … in fact, he makes the point […]

On Sept 13, Kimveer Gill packed his things, drove to the vicinity of Dawson College, walked down the street carrying an automatic firearm (according to one witness quoted on CBC Newsworld reports), before opening fire on students inside Dawson College. One woman, 18 year old Anastasia DeSousa, was killed, and several others injured in the […]

From CBC.CA: Winnipeg girls win right to play on boys’ hockey team

A few months ago, I wrote about a court challenge in Winnipeg featuring twin girls who wanted the chance to try out for what they considered to be the top hockey team at their s…

Small Change
by Lyle Bateman 2006
Ancient cobblestones press jagged
against the sole and bladder
dark passage into stony past
duck through arch for public relief
The tattered stool sagged
under the weight of her years
small change at the doorway
averted eyes from the urinals
tinkles of water, shake hands well
only one paper towel for your coin
tired smile cracks from age, her life
writ small […]