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Visibly anxious and upset customer: Can you please help me? Something is wrong with this computer! I go over to take a look. The public comp...

The world lost two great fighters for peace and justice this past week. Daniel Berrigan was a lifelong peace activist, a man who was ready ...

Tala is doing great! Of course she was exhausted and a bit wobbly when she came home, but now she's well rested and back to herself. And...

Short version: Tala has had surgery and has a very good chance of remaining cancer-free. Whoo-hoo! It's been a crazy couple of days. Mon...

Tala has cancer. As it happened with Cody , we found a lump. First I was sure it was a cyst, then I was hoping it was a cyst, now I'm ju...

#7: Hold a logo contest! Trying to increase member engagement in your union? Here are some ideas that work. 1. Always make time for your mem...

No one knows exactly how many US soldiers deserted from the Vietnam War, nor how many young men resisted conscription by going either to jai...

A while back, I blogged about weeding , every library's not-so-dirty little not-so-secret. Daniel Gross, writing in The New Yorker , loo...

I recently had the pleasure of reading an advance reading copy of Every Exquisite Thing  by Matthew Quick. Quick - a/k/a Q - is the author o...

This is The Proclamation. The Proclamation was read by Padraig (Patrick) Pearse outside the General Post Office in Dublin on April 24, 1916....

On the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising, these Revolutionary Thoughts of the Day are brought to you by the great Irish socialist, Jame...

Still war resisters. Still in Canada. Still fighting to stay. So far, the change in government hasn't helped the Iraq War resisters who ...

Across Canada, April 28 is the National Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured on their jobs. The image of the canary reminds us that...

Will you sign a declaration to make Canada more democratic? Declaration of Voters' Rights And some myth-busting about proportional repre...

Today is Equal Pay Day in Ontario. Why? It's the day that, if you're a woman, your earnings have finally caught up with what men wer...

Of all the outrageously unjust moments in United States history - and dog knows there are many to choose from - the execution of Ethel and J...

Ah, the things we miss when we don't follow mainstream media. I didn't even know the sports world was celebrating a rapist. This wee...

Today, April 15 - 4/15 in North America - the Fight for 15 and Fairness made another leap forward. All over the US and Canada , and in coun...

I'm a big fan of The Pretenders, but more than that, I'm a Chrissie Hynde fan. To me, she has always been the epitome of the female ...

Last week I attended the CUPE Ontario Library Workers Conference, my second year, and my first since being elected to the organizing committ...