Almost exactly a year ago I wrote a blog post on Canada Post’s War on the 21st Century, Innovation & Productivity. In it I highlighted how Canada Post launched a lawsuit against a company – Geocoder.ca – that recreates the postal code database via crowdsourcing. Canada Posts case was never
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: “We have our idiots like any community”
And that wonderful quote corresponds exactly with my long-running view about religions (or any human institution, frankly): there are idiots in every organization. The Muslims have them, but so do Christians, Jews, you name it. There is no monopoly on virtue, just as extremism is no exclusive club. That doesn’t
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Something To Make You Smile
Apropos of nothing except that I am a huge jazz fan and today would have been Ella Fitzgerald’s 96th birthday, an event being commemorated with a Google Doodle, I invite you to take a few minutes to watch one of her renditions of Mack the Knife. I can almost guarantee
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Drowning in Information, Thirsting for Knowledge (About Movements)
It’s no great novelty to observe that anyone today with the resources and inclination to own the right kind of cellphone can instantly access more information than was available to, say, the President of the United States fifty years ago. We are awash with information, bathed in it, saturated by
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Canadians Abroad
Apr. 25, 2013 — The rediscovery of a mystery animal in a museum’s underground storeroom proves that a non-native ‘big cat’ prowled the British countryside at the turn of the last century. The animal’s skeleton and mounted skin was analysed by a multi-disciplinary team of Durham University scientists and fellow
Continue readingcartoon life: 20 Monsters
20 Monsters is a collection of fanciful cartoon monsters and accompanying doggerel. The free ebook 20 Monsters is available on the iTunes bookstore. You can review the Monsters as blog posts here. Filed under: art Tagged: 20 Monsters, art, bestiary, doggerel, humor, humour, illustration, iPad, monsters
Continue readingsamupress: 20 Monsters
20 Monsters is a collection of fanciful cartoon monsters and accompanying doggerel. The free ebook 20 Monsters is available on the iTunes bookstore. You can review the Monsters as blog posts here.
Continue readingsamupress: 20 Monsters
20 Monsters is a collection of fanciful cartoon monsters and accompanying doggerel. The free ebook 20 Monsters is available on the iTunes bookstore. You can review the Monsters as blog posts here.
Continue readingThings Are Good: Paris Marathon Runners Generated Energy to Power Event
At the recent Paris marathon the runners literally generated electricity. Pavegen put down a series of tiles that create an electric charge when compressed, so all they had to do was lay the tiles along the marathon route. The resulting energy generated by the runners was enough to power signs
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Simms and Stephen Reid note that the corporatist dogma that everything is done more efficiently in the private sector has no apparent basis in reality: The myth of private sector superiority says that the private sector is efficient and dynamic, the
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Bad planning: Edmonton Arena funding and Calgary urban sprawl.
TweetWhile too much media attention was focused this week on the fate of a statue of a hockey player who left Edmonton twenty-five years ago for sunny southern California (and piles of money), City Council desperately tried to draw up a Plan B (or Plan C) to fund the proposed downtown arena.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how the one point of agreement about the environmental impact of the tar sands is that we still don’t have enough information to so much as evaluate the effects of the industry at the core of the Harper Cons’ economic strategy. For further reading…– The Canada-Alberta Oil Sands
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5910…Premier Tim Hudak
That’s what he would be called if an election were held tomorrow in Ontario.“…according to a poll by Ipsos Reid done for Newstalk 1010, Global Television and the National Post…Around 37 per cent would vote for Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak and 29 per cent would cast their ballot for
Continue readingBirth Pangs: God Doesn’t Kill Just Because He Didn’t Like How Things Turned Out…Oh wait a minute…
via Proud Atheist The post God Doesn’t Kill Just Because He Didn’t Like How Things Turned Out…Oh wait a minute… appeared first on Birth Pangs.
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, April 25, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, April 25, 2013: Bill to give Ontario grandparents more rights will be subject of public hearings – Ottawa Citizen Conservative anti-terror bill and arrests match up beautifully, don’t they: Mallick Arrest of Blue Jays fan puts police
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: “I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be. I know it’s crazy.”
Wonderful story, about Jerry and his friend in Toronto. Here.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: “I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be. I know it’s crazy.”
Wonderful story, about Jerry and his friend in Toronto. Here.
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Government By Distraction
Bill S7 is a deeply flawed piece of legislation. Its provisions for “preventative detention” and forcing people to answer questions are unlikely to pass a Supreme Court challenge. But the bill passed yesterday amid all the yelling and screaming about political attack ads. Susan Delacourt writes in The Toronto Star:
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Bit More About Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver
Late yesterday afternoon, I wrote a post on one of our more shameful politicians, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver and the embarrassment we all should feel over his performance in Washington in a speech to a carefully-screened audience pushing the XL Keystone pipeline. In it, he rebuked and ridiculed leading
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