tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post4865971551658543855..comments2024-03-28T19:18:40.387-04:00Comments on Northern Reflections: How Many Canadians Still Read?Owen Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-17096013748770790482014-08-14T10:25:03.063-04:002014-08-14T10:25:03.063-04:00Not all of us, Mogs, if we take the time to read -...Not all of us, Mogs, if we take the time to read -- really read.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-23238847572600131232014-08-14T10:21:19.527-04:002014-08-14T10:21:19.527-04:00I was doing research for a book and was reading vo...I was doing research for a book and was reading voluminous amounts of material. I uncovered many things that I really did not want to know. For instance the WORLD BANK/IMF/NATO is really a gigantic criminal empire and Herr Harper is part and parcel of it. Need proof?<br /><br />http://cadtm.org/The-IMF-and-the-World-Bank-It-s<br /><br />http://www.negotiations.com/questions/IMF-World-Bank-corruption/<br /><br />http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1872<br /><br />http://www.deliberation.info/ukraines-destruction-world-bank-imf/<br /><br />http://hidhist.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/nato%E2%80%99s-secret-armies-linked-to-terrorism/<br /><br />http://isreview.org/issue/82/primer-nato-and-g8-summitshttp://isreview.org/issue/82/primer-nato-and-g8-summits<br /><br />http://publici.ucimc.org/?p=48876<br /><br />http://www.ied.info/articles/american-airmen-finished-out-their-lives-in-soviet-prisons/now-it-was-yugoslavia%E2%80%99s-turn-to-be-destabilized<br /><br />http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-true-story-of-the-bilderberg-group-and-what-they-may-be-planning-now/13808<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bilderberg_participants<br />Canada<br />· Mike Harris, (2006),[29] Premier of Ontario 1995–2002<br />· Bernard Lord, (2006),[29] Premier of New Brunswick 1999–2006<br />· Gordon Campbell, (2010),[21] Premier of British Columbia 2001–2011<br />· Nigel S. Wright, (2012)[30] Chief of Staff, Office of the Prime Minister of Canada, 2011–2013<br />· Alison Redford, (2012),[3] Premier of Alberta 2011-2014<br />· Frank McKenna, (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013)[31] Premier of New Brunswick 1987-1997<br />· Brad Wall, (2013[12]) Premier of Saskatchewan 2007–current<br />Prime Ministers<br />· Lester B. Pearson, (1968),[32] Prime Minister of Canada (1963–1968)(deceased)<br />· Pierre Elliott Trudeau, (1968),[29] Prime Minister of Canada, 1968–1979, 1980–1984 (deceased)<br />· Jean Chrétien, (1996),[33] Prime Minister of Canada, 1993–2003<br />· Paul Martin, (1996),[33] Prime Minister of Canada, 2003–2006<br />· Stephen Harper, (2003),[29] Prime Minister of Canada, 2006–current<br /><br />This is by no means a complete list.<br /><br />What they have in store for us?<br /><br />http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-true-story-of-the-bilderberg-group-and-what-they-may-be-planning-now/13808<br /><br />Enjoy the read it is a primer for ordinary folk on what is really going on. We are all sheep being led to slaughter.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17868396408359306954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-60672513319866536712014-08-13T19:38:24.208-04:002014-08-13T19:38:24.208-04:00For me, Scotian, reading has always been the doorw...For me, Scotian, reading has always been the doorway to thought -- the kind of thought that leads to insight and creativity.<br /><br />These days so many people approach life from the perspective of someone writing a multiple choice test.<br /><br />It's not that easy. There is no one correct answer. And there are many more than four options.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-54764318359884029592014-08-13T18:28:53.653-04:002014-08-13T18:28:53.653-04:00I am, and always have been, and always will be, a ...I am, and always have been, and always will be, a proud bookworm. I read for knowledge, I read for relaxation, I read for pleasure, I read to have gruesome reality shown to me in all its horror. I go nowhere without at least one if not more books, I read whenever I have to wait anywhere, I even read while waiting for lights to change in traffic (so much easier to control road rage that way...LOL). I suspect though given my writing style that I am on the bookish side comes as no great shock, hmmm?<br /><br />Indeed, later this week I am looking forward (I hope) to starting Welcome To The Broadcast, Don Newman's book, (unless my mom scarfes it off me for the weekend trip she and dad are taking, then it will be at the end of the month, but still a pleasure to look forward to), and while I also use my e-book a lot (great for my Japanese light novels) I will never stop enjoying the feel of paper in hand, the comforting weight in my hand, the ability to take in smell of the ink and paper, and all those other lovely aspects of reading an old fashioned paper book. The amount of shock I get these days when I walk and read (something I started doing before I hit double digits as a kid) saddens me, because when I was younger it was a reaction of how can a person do both at the same time, these days it is as much about just that someone is actually so enamoured with reading they want to do it while walking, a sad commentary on our times for me.Scotianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06284856315992405261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-32729652374001430892014-08-13T10:44:30.628-04:002014-08-13T10:44:30.628-04:00Even among those who read, Lorne, the prime motiva...Even among those who read, Lorne, the prime motivation seems to be utilitarian. We now read for information -- not for pleasure.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-19831104109066758532014-08-13T10:29:49.822-04:002014-08-13T10:29:49.822-04:00A very apt question, Owen. I was in a Starbucks ye...A very apt question, Owen. I was in a Starbucks yesterday, and while I was reading a book I had gotten from the library, I observed that most people there were either engaged with their smartphones or computers, or not reading at all. I think, as retired English teachers, both you and I understand the value of sustained reading, something that seems to becoming a thing of the past. While I am certainly not a Luddite, for me a computer screen will never replace a paper-sourced text that invites a person's involvement that screens seem, by their nature, to discourage.<br /><br />Time for reflection and critical thinking seems, in fact, to be discouraged these day, perhaps for some obvious reasons.Lornehttp://www.politicsanditsdiscontents.blogspot.canoreply@blogger.com