This weekend I had the pleasure of being invited to the Tow Centre for Digital Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School for a workshop on sensor journalism. The workshop (hashtag #towsenses) brought together a “community of journalists, hackers, makers, academics and researchers to explore the use of sensors in journalism;
Continue readingBuckdog: Canada’s Bank CEO’s Are Among Highest Paid … Good Thing That Harper/Flaherty Sunk $114 BILLION Tax Dollars Into The Banks …
“Canadian bankers were among some of the highest-paid banking executives in North America last year, with three in the top 10, according to a new list compiled by Bloomberg Markets magazine. In all, six Canadian bank CEOs were in the top 20.”CBC “Canada’s biggest banks accepted tens of billions in
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Pipelines before persons with developmental disabilities?
TweetFresh from a surprise election win, British Columbia Premier Christy Clark‘s government formally announced its opposition this week to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline that would carry bitumen from Alberta to Kitimat. A controversial issue during the heated election campaign, BC Environment Minister Terry Lake told the media that evidence supporting
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: "Know Your Place!": Misogyny and Racism
When Dr. Henry Morgentaler died on Wednesday at the age of 90, we expected him to be vilified by the usual suspects. Among those who attacked his legacy were boneheads. Most comments made were pretty nasty, as again we would have expected, but many included some variation of the following
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Protect the Rights of the Rich? The College of Physicians and Surgeons Grapples with Concierge Clinics
F. Scott Fitzgerald once said to Ernest Hemingway, “You know, the rich are different from you and me.” Hemingway replied, “Yes. They’ve got more money”.* I was sitting in a meeting of the Council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons when F. Scott Fitzgerald’s comment came to mind. It’s
Continue readingQueer-liberal: Inside Out film festival wraps: My favourite flicks this year.
The 23rd Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival wraps today. I’ve been a patron of the festival since I moved to Toronto in the 1990s. This year was a great success on many fronts with many good films getting a Toronto or Canadian premiere. I took in seven programs which
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Ads on CBC Radio a serious blow to public broadcasting in Canada
By: Friends of Canadian Broadcasting | Press Release: TORONTO, May 28, 2013 – CBC’s new licences, announced this morning by Canada’s broadcast regulator, are the culmination of years of neglect by successive governments and the product of the Harper Conservatives’ hostility toward public broadcasting in Canada. The CRTC renewed the licences
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6093…Your Sunday Tattoo
From 106.9 The Bear, Ottawa. Stronzo. WFDS
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6092…Damn Catholics!!!
Cannot trust them. That’s what Gordon Gee, the bossman at Ohio State University, sorry, The Ohio State University, one of the biggest universities on the planet, had to say about my people. Seriously Mr. Gee? Like it is
Continue readingcmkl: Chesterville via South Mountain 161km
My longest ride to date, bringing me to 963km of training. If I do the parkway loop again this week I’ll make the Ottawa Bicycle Club-prescribed 1000km training kilometrage, despite the late start.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – I’ll quickly link to a few Robocon stories which I han’t yet blogged. Karl Nerenberg noted that the Federal Court decision finding widespread election fraud using the Cons’ voter database was only the beginning, and Jean-Pierre Kingsley was hopeful that the ruling
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Why your Xbox One could undermine your privacy
Xbox One is out and there’s a problem: It’s Kinect device could essentially be used as a surveillance tool. If you own an Xbox One or have been thinking about getting one, you need to read this. Article by Ryan Gallagher for Slate: When Microsoft launched its new Xbox One
Continue readingMind of Dan: What’s On Your Mind?
Open Thread for June 2013. Suggested Topic: The recent slowdown in global mean surface temperature has nevertheless been accompanied by increasingly severe large scale circulation anomalies. Should we regard this as good news – that the temperature increase is slow – or bad – that the circulation anomalies are happening
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Crack Nation
The video everyone has been dying to see: Also, the lead singer is kinda hot.
Continue readingCanadian Trends: They say the show must go on
Our current situation is so dumbfounding and stupid I just don’t know where to begin. How have we allowed ourselves to come to this? Arguing over petty politics, propaganda around every corner dividing and conquering with murderous efficiency. What’s truly sad about our situation is we are destroying ourselves willingly, or
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Mayor On Crack? – SFH world video premiere!
The long wait is over, SFH Nation! Here it is, folks – Canada’s best-loved geriatric punk trio, SFH, offer up their newest tune and video: ‘Mayor On Crack?’ Proceeds from sale of this unstoppable chart-topper will go to a Canadian addiction-counselling facility. Download it now, download it often! We’re on
Continue readingJohn Laforet - Blog: Ford Has to Stop Making it Easy
It is safe to say Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is under more pressure and is more vulnerable than he has been for the duration of his political career. Nominations for the 2014 municipal election open up in a few months and he would be wise to consider the implications that
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Arab Spring comes to Turkey
Istanbul June 2013 Much to the surprise of the government: Another way of looking at the AKP is as a party of building contractors, who have never seen anything they did not want to build and have grown accustomed to bulldozing anything in their path. In Istanbul alone, there are
Continue readingcartoon life: Street chalk art cat
Begining the drawing I did my very first chalk art street at this weekend in Wallaceburg Ontario at their Dragon Boat Races, peripheral to, beside, and just downtown. A random helper drops in spontaneously and draws the toes. The wet technique just sucks up the chalk. Im afraid I
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