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Jane Fonda flying to oppose tar sands isn’t hypocrisy; that’s a “tu quoque” logical fallacy

LB — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:46:49 +0000

@JaneSeymourFonda in the Alberta tar sands: with @barbarawilliam_, @UBCIC Grand Chief Stewart Phillip and ACFN (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation) Chief Allan Adam on January 11, 2017 (UBCIC Instagram)

This post is about a logical fallacy that for a decade has been popping up all over social media and comment streams on news stories.

When you have oil pipeline companies, who needs satire?

LB — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 02:45:16 +0000

Giant U.S. oil/energy mega-corp Kinder Morgan has applied to triple the size of a pipeline across British Columbia, bringing dirty bitumen-laced oil from the Alberta Tar Sands. “Public” hearings to assess the application have been notoriously non-public.

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This is how I feel about the federal budget.

LB — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:54:07 +0000

Robert Wilkinson, 29, sings Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” in the back of an RCMP cruiser after being picked up for public intoxication in Edson, Alberta, last November.

A drunken man rides in the back of an RCMP police car, presumably en route to the station lockup.

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Kenneth Frampton on Aalto, Corbusier, detached houses, the suburbs &c.

LB — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:51:18 +0000

The video below, produced by Slow Home Studio in Calgary, Alberta, is a short, brilliant, unrehearsed lecture by renowned architect, architectural critic and historian Kenneth Frampton on the history of the detached house in our era.

Free Rain – mural in Edmonton, Alberta

LB — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:05:35 +0000

It would be nice to have a mural like this in Vancouver. It was designed by B.C. artist James K-M. Information on the mural, and on the collaborative community work of producing it, is here.

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