Ever wanted to have really fresh air in your place? This TED Talk by Kamal Meattle provides some insight into which plants you should have in your home and what element the clean in the air. I’m going to try this out in my home.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Chris Lehmann discusses the destructive impetus behind the ever-present austerity scolds: In their new book The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills, Stuckler and Basu show distressingly consistent increases in such key public-health indicators as suicides, heart disease, alcoholism and HIV infection in societies
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, June 24, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, June 24, 2013: Beware the perils of using unpaid interns – Canadian HR Reporter (blog) Justice at a heavy price – A mom’s story of fighting CAS “shaken baby syndrome” accusations – The Telegram “Lawyers eye NSA
Continue readingwmtc: my journey to palestinian solidarity and the myth of the self-hating jew, part 2
Part 1 here. For a while I had been reluctant to write this story, because it seemed so baggy and shapeless. The best essays are crisp, with a clearly defined turning point and an easily identifiable ah-ha moment. This story has none of those that I can see. A clear
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Harper’s homeboy, Hudak.
Ontario television viewers saw a new attack advertisement the other day. It looked like another attack advertisement by the Conservatives. And it was. It was just not by the federal Conservatives but by our Conservative Lights in Ontario. Even so, why does it not work the same? The Ontario Conservatives
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Penny Wise and Pound Foolish
Senator Colin Kenny has written an important op-ed in this morning’s Toronto Star. The central thrust of the piece is that the Harper government’s approach to foreign aid is sheer folly. Kenny writes: That Harper would pull CIDA out of some of the poorest countries in the world — like
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Age of Unreason – On Junk Thought
I’ve almost finished Susan Jacoby’s book titled the Age of American Unreason. There are a few passages that wanted to make me stand up and cheer and qualified themselves as sharing material on the blog. Of course, I can never find them when I want to do the actual
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Shh! Don’t Ask!
I have to confess to feeling a small measure of guilt each time I reproduce someone else’s words with little editorializing on my part. Yet my ego is sufficiently robust to be able to acknowledge the fact that there are many others with views that merit space in this blog,
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Abuse of power in public office
Gardner v. Canada (Attorney General), 2013 ONCA 423 holds: [23] Although Gardner has alleged several causes of action in her pleading, her principal claim is for abuse of power or misfeasance in public office. In Odhavji Estate v. Woodhouse, 2003 SCC 69, [2003] 3 S.C.R. 263, Iacobucci J. discussed the elements of this
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: The Zen of Proofreading
Sponsored post note: I used Grammarly to grammar check this post, because my cybernetic monkey helpers were away at pirate camp. I remember a couple of things about my study of Zen. The first was the importance of “beginner’s mind”. … Continue reading →
Continue readingknitnut.net: Fringe Review: Chesterfield
I won 2 tickets from Apt. 613 to see Chesterfield at Fringe Fest, along with a gift certificate for a ZaZaZa pizza! We haven’t eaten the pizza yet, but we did go see Chesterfield and we got front row centre seats in a pleasantly air-conditioned sold-out theatre. GC and I
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Does It Come With A Free Bowl Of Soup?
TERRACE, B.C. – The equity offer from Northern Gateway to aboriginal groups along the route of a controversial oil pipeline would amount to as little as $70,000 a year for some bands, according to one base offer obtained by The Canadian Press. HOW MUCH? That’s less than I make in
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Year of Living Dubiously #nlpoli
Conflict of interest is great thing to deal when there is a chance of stopping it or dealing with it, not six or seven years later. Back in 2006, conflict of interest was all the rage. Noting the problems with conflict of interest wasn’t. (Read more…)
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Wonderful Saving of Far Enough Farm
Two years ago I first told you the story of Far Enough Farm, the beautiful little hobby farm on the Toronto Islands. A gentle story book place if ever there was one. I told you how the brutish Con ogre Rob Ford was trying to destroy it for no good reason.
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Aided by WikiLeaks, NSA whistleblower Snowden leaves Hong Kong, heads for asylum
By: Obert Madondo Twitter: @Obiemad With WikiLeaks’ aid, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden left Hong Kong over the weekend and landed in Moscow en route to asylum in a third country. His departure came after Hong Kong authorities rejected U.S. government demands for his extradition. Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor wanted by the
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6180…Happy Jean Baptiste Day
Amazing innit that Quebec would have a different National Day than the Rest of Canada. July 1st of course is moving day. Viva La Belle. WFDS
Continue readingQueer-liberal: 2nd Toronto Pride Week LGBT Short Film Festival launches Monday
After a very successful inaugural run in 2012, I’m very proud to be organizing the Canadian Media Guild’s 2nd Toronto Pride Week LGBT Short Film Festival, which starts tomorrow. I’ve been working with other CMG volunteers to select a collection of great recent short films with LGBT themes, contact filmmakers
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6179…Laurel Broten Says Good Bye
CFRA, among others, reports presently that Ontario’s minister for Intergovernmental Affairs, is packing it in July 2. That’s four who have opted out of Premier Wynne’s caucus to date. WFDS
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