The book Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Dr. Martin Seligman is not new, but it is to me. For others who have not heard about it before, it looks like an uplifting read. The central thesis of the book is to essentially learn what
Continue readingcartoon life: A cat for ASketch proceeding
Dropped into Procreate for some colour. The charcoal tools do a great job here. Filed under: art Tagged: ASketch, Cat, procreate
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – We shouldn’t be surprised that the corporate sector is reacting with contrived outrage to the Cons’ tinkering with a severely flawed temporary foreign worker program. But Jim Stanford points out what it would take to actually move labour standards upward rather than
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, April 30, 2013: TV providers tell CRTC to reject SUN-TV bid for mandatory carriage Bangladesh factory collapse: Loblaw pledges compensation for dead garment workers Minnesota Bill Would Define All Marriages as Civil Unions The legal issues of cloud-based computing
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Will $260 million help restore home care clinical services? Maybe
For home care this is significant. With their feet held to the fire by the NDP, the Wynne government announced last week they were going to invest $260 million in additional funding for home and community care services this year. … Continue reading →
Continue readingRecreating Eden: The Merry Month of May When We’ll Hit a CO2 Danger Point
Lovely soft morning with the trees leafing out and the forsythia in bloom, which are reasons to wait for the beginning of May around here. But Le Devoir reports on another thing that will happen this coming month that makes the day seem less promising: a UN warning that the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: What Does Paying For A Look Behind The Globe Pay-Wall Get You?
According to Media culpa, a three year old article that first appeared in The National Post…on the subject of kilts.
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Sixth Estate Endorses Mischa Popoff in BC 2013 Election
After a good and I like to think well-deserved hiatus, I’m going to be easing back into blogging now. And I thought that perhaps the way to do it would be to endorse a party in Canada’s only current election campaign, the one in B.C. One of the things that
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Not Here. Not Now
The Parliamentary Budget Office has released its report on last month’s Federal Budget. Kevin Page should be proud of the work his office has done. As was the case with its reports on the War in Afghanistan and the the purchase of the F35 fighter jets, the report excoriates the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Change of Heart, Or A Change In Political Winds?
Much has been written and discussed about the Temporary Foreign Workers Program, both on this blog and in various other media; consequently, I suspect that the majority of well-informed Canadians will look with deep cynicism upon the announcement that the Harper regime intends to crack down on widespread employer abuses
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Mainstream Media? Let’s append that to Corporate Media.
It is important to periodically remind yourself of who the corporate media serves and how that focus bends what is reported and how it is reported into the fantastical shapes we observe today. Critical thinking, news triangulation and a healthy dose of skepticism are all required to make sense
Continue readingMorton's Musings: New self-defence provisions apply to cases from before amendments
R. v. Parker, 2013 ONCJ 195 deals with recent amendments to the law of self-defence in Canada. It asks does the new law apply to assist an accused where the crime alleged took place before the change in the law? The Court holds the new law (and the earlier law also) applies:
Continue readingTrashy's World: Today is the Angry Man’s Birthday!
Yes, folks, Stevo is sure to tie one on tonight in celebration of the 54th year since his construction in a robotics factory somewhere in Southern Ontario. So, in honour of the head CPC henchman, I have composed a haiku… Bonne Fête, oh angry man Count your days as Emperor
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Sand Land: Fracking Industry Mining Iowa’s Iconic Sand Bluffs in New Form of Mountaintop Removal
This is a collaborative report by DeSmog’s Steve Horn and Mint Press News staff writer Trisha Marczak. Within immediate vicinity of a central battleground of the Black Hawk War of 1832, land rife with a resource necessary for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is in the crosshairs of an industry prepared to
Continue readingMorton's Musings: The Blizzard is Over
The blizzard is over, at least for Repulse Bay. It will linger on in Rankin Inlet for the rest of today. It was a real storm — a typical spring blizzard north of the Arctic Circle. About 5:00 pm I had to travel from the green building you see
Continue reading350 or bust: Are You A Changemaker?
It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust, and today’s presenter is Zoe Weil who spoke to the young people who gathered at the TEDx Youth symposium held at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, last December. Ms. Weil is the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education. Ms. Weil’s inspiring talk is
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Wanted: a good row #nlpoli
One of the unreserved joys that comes from writing these scribbles is the moment when a post sparks something. Like on Monday, when a simple post looking at change in the provincial gross domestic product prompted an exchange among a few of the provincial Twitterati (Twitteratini?) on the whole business.
Continue readingEvil Scientist: IT’S GLORIOUS LEADER’S BIRTHDAY!
Somehow I ended up on the federal Conservative party’s email list. I would consider this a massive fail of their vaunted CIMS system since I’ve been a card-carrying New Democrat for years, but it does provide insight into the party and they reek of desperation so what the heck. The
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Former Tory strategist Allan Gregg rips Harper Cons’ ‘systematic attack’ on facts and reason
A couple of old guys born just before the last King passed on, one of them your blogger, the other the pollster and former Tory strategist Allan Gregg. Below: Mr. Gregg in his iconoclastically Conservative heyday. Long-time Tory pollster and strategist Allan Gregg ripped into the Harper Government on Saturday
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Our Twice-A-Year Celebration of "Dead Nazi Day"
We’ve written in the past that we do not celebrate the deaths of anyone, including boneheads. We do make at least two exception to this general rule. While boneheads like to commemorate April 20…. …. we prefer to commemorate April 30. HAPPY DEAD HITLER DAY YA’LL!!!
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