Mallory and I went for a walk this morning to see if we could find tracks made by the bigish deer we saw yesterday. Of course, my real agenda was to make an image or two of the fabulously thick frost that had fallen overnight. Naturally my camera batte…
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cmkl: Late fall at the farm
Can actually be pretty boring especially when it’s cold and wet outside. Ah well. We will be going outside soon. I swear. Maybe I should make more coffee.
Continue readingcmkl: The Harper government are little boys who’ve never grown up
When I was in grade school, my friend J – I’ll spare him the mention – and I used to like to break things. We’d set leaves on fire with a magnifying glass, we’d destroy models and toy cars with rocks, with lighters and aerosol cans and – whenever we co…
Continue readingcmkl: It’s so the cops know what’s on the other side of the door
…when they respond to the domestic violence call.
Continue readingcmkl: Launch day plus two: never let a good deed go unpunished
Two of the seven re-designed regional websites my employer operates have recently gone public. I admit I was pretty excited when it happened. It looked like I could sort of see the end of this project which has extended well beyond its original end dat…
Continue readingcmkl: Welcome to Toronto, mister president
Alrighty then. That’s another website to get redone then. Stuck my hand up once again at the wrong time and I am now overseeing the redesign/reengineering of calm.ca. In truth, it had to be me. After all, it’s what I do for a living and I a…
Continue readingcmkl: Lisa Raitt sends labour relations back to the 1920s
When I first saw reference to this on Twitter I thought maybe it was some sort of hyperbole. Or that some progressive soul, like myself, prone to Swiftian rhetoric, had done the whole reductio ad absurdium thing to normal Tory talking points. But no. L…
Continue readingcmkl: Mallory made her first picket sign today
Amid a flurry of preparations for a dinner guest today, Mallory told Irene she wanted to make a sign. I missed some of the conversation but it evolved into a need to make a protest sign.
Continue readingcmkl: Good web content is not about writing “punchy”
And in fact, that headline breaks another cardinal rule about web writing. You’re supposed to write positively – what things are, what you will do as opposed to what they aren’t and what you won’t.
Continue readingcmkl: Good news. The internet won’t collapse
The Supreme Court has ruled that hyperlinking does not constitute defamation. Or more specifically, if you hyperlink to a site, you have not “published” or “broadcast” it for the purposes of determining if you’ve libeled someone.
Continue readingcmkl: The most convict-spiking state of the union thinks Canada’s tough-on-crime approach is crackers
They’re at it again, the Tories. On about being tough on crime with this omnibus anti-crime bill C-10, which has already been denounced by lawyers and jurists. But the best rebuke to their fact-free approach to punishing people comes from Texas.
Continue readingcmkl: I am one of the four million people who bought an iPhone 4S last weekend
Or at least I put a deposit down on the thing. Apparently it’ll be showing up in a Rogers store near me some time soon.
Continue readingcmkl: If only everyone paid their taxes
Doug Saunders points out that the amount of money required to fix Europe’s debt ills is about as much as you’d get if you taxed all the money held in off-shore tax havens at 11 per cent.
Continue readingcmkl: Air Canada vs CUPE: the company charges ‘bad faith’
It would be funny if I didn’t think that the livelihoods of 6,000 or so people hung in the balance. But Air Canada has charged the union with bad faith bargaining because the membership refused to accept the second tentative agreement CUPE negotiators …
Continue readingcmkl: The federal labour board ‘reviews’ the situation at Air Canada
Journalism can be so maddeningly vague at times. This business of the federal labour relations board “reviewing” the negotiations at Air Canada and therefore rendering any strike illegal is just one of those times.
Continue readingcmkl: Air Canada flight attendants vote down two tentative agreements
Wow. This does not happen a lot. Air Canada flight attendants – CUPE members – have voted down not one but two tentative agreements that the union’s leadership was recommending.
Continue readingcmkl: Mallory dresses herself
Does she ever. Our household seems to be evolving toward a routine where I make Mallory her breakfast then take her upstairs to shepherd her through getting ready for school/daycare and then dropping her off. I can remember a fairly recent time when th…
Continue readingcmkl: Well, I had a great day
I’m sorry so many other people did not. There’s 250 more civilians at DND whose jobs will be cut. There’s flight attendants at Air Canada who seem poised to go on the world’s shortest strike right before getting the contract they don’t want forced upon…
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