A few months ago, Conor was lying unconscious in a bed at the Intensive Care Unit of the Chalmers’ Hospital (the DECH) with tubes running out of his body and hooked up to 10+ year old monitoring equipment. Notwithstanding the age of the monitoring equipment the fantastic DECH ICU team
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Sneaky Assault on Medicare
It may seem like just another federal-provincial disagreement, another argument in a fractious country.But there are very good reasons the premiers are united in opposing Stephen Harper's job training plan. For not only were they not consulted. Not only is the Con regime clawing back money from provincial programs. Not only
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Connectivism and the Primal Scream
Keith Brennan writes a well-thought-out and evenly expressed criticism of connectivism as it is applied in connectivist MOOCs. It’s worth taking the time to read it in full before proceeding with this post: here it is. His argument is based on his experiences in cMOOCs and he says it’s best
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Update on McCorkell Case Reveals Links to Malcolm Ross
Neo-Nazis barred from inheriting N.B. man's valuable coins Sister gets injunction temporarily stopping $250K estate going to National Alliance By Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon, CBC News Posted: Jul 23, 2013 6:04 AM AT The sister of a New Brunswick man who left a collection of coins and artifacts worth an estimated $250,000
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: The ‘irony’ of Edward Snowden seeking asylum in Latin America
Experts on Latin America issue open letter to the media, highlighting the ‘irony’ of Edward Snowden’s request for asylum in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. The post The ‘irony’ of Edward Snowden seeking asylum in Latin America appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Water, Water Everywhere
Something to think about from the folks at Operation Maple: Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Canadian government enemy lists: Voices-Voix open letter to PM Harper
In this open letter, Voices-Voix, a coalition of more than 200 civil society organizations across Canada, tells Harper that his government’s “enemy lists” violate freedoms guaranteed under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The post Canadian government enemy lists: Voices-Voix open letter to PM Harper appeared first on The Canadian
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: PotashCorp Reports Inadequate Royalties
PotashCorp reported today that it paid $81 million of “provincial mining and other taxes” on $975 million of potash sales in the second quarter of 2013. In other words, Saskatchewan’s potash production tax and resource surcharge amounted to 8% of potash sales. Adding the basic Crown royalty of just over
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6277…George Bush I Is A Mensch
The 89 year old ex POTUS shaved his head in support of a young friend with the big C. Mensch. WFDS
Continue readingThe need for a global no-growth agreement
Trade agreements are all the rage among nations these days. And that might not be a bad thing if they were principally about trade rather than about empowering corporations at the expense of workers and governments. In any case, what the world really needs is not global trade agreements but
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6276…Rob Ford Makes Mad Magazine
The September issue of Mad has this. 5 Signs Your Mayor is Smoking Crack… 1. Inauguration cancelled due to “invisible spiders.”2. Office supplies from city hall keep turning up on Craigslist.3. Frequently wakes up in cities he doesn’t recognize shouting “I didn’t approve these changes!!”4. Proposes balancing budget by stealing
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Balancing media access and informant privilege
XY v. United States, 2013 ONCA 497 holds: [9] Since the privilege applies, the court’s role is to “accommodate the open court principle to as great an extent possible without risking a breach of the informer privilege”: Vancouver Sun, at para. 55. I do not agree with the media’s submission that the privilege only covers
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: Police-reported crime at its lowest since 1972.
It must be all those ‘unreported crimes‘ that are keeping the Conservatives awake at night.
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Don’t underestimate Jennifer Hollett in Toronto-Center
You may recognize/remember Jennifer Hollett from her MuchMusic VJ days. She has done more then that since then, including a stint as a contributor at CBC Newsworld (Connect with Mark Kelley), did some reporting with CBC Radio, and a ton of other stuff. She’s also a social media guru/geek (and
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Don’t Miss the Lady in Black: The Burka Avenger!
Are you reading for a flying, pen-throwing, book pounding female defender of education in Pakistan? It seems the world must be because a new series to be broadcast in Pakistan in Urdu is taking to the air waves next month, accompanied by iPhone ap and video game. It was created
Continue readingLeDaro: Harper gives surfing a try
He has a busy summer.:)
Continue readingLeDaro: Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas against closing Gitmo
When will Americans close Gitmo? To start with, there are a lot of detainees who have not been charged with anything and the Gitmo detention centre gives a tool to extremists like Al Qaeda for new recruits. Now Senator Ted Cruz, during a Senate hearing on Gitmo, says that Gitmo
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Why Not Make Your Own Enemies List?
It began in Stephen Harper’s boy band PMO. The call went out for Tory nobs to compile enemies lists to help ministerial newbies distinguish between their real enemies from all their other enemies – the majority of Canadians. They’ve even come up with a way to force organizations critical of
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