You can usually tell a guilty person by the way that person shifts the excuses for a crime. The more the excuses change and evolve, the guiltier the person appears. The Susan G. Komen foundation is in big trouble. Not so much money-wise – it’s raking in the cash from
Continue readingThings Are Good: How to be Happier at Work (and beyond)
Here’s a fun TED Talk on happiness and how we can better achieve at as individuals and as a society.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Secret documents expose Ottawa’s tar sands enemies list
As the Harper government works with oil companies to slander and discredit opponents of tar sands, will the supposedly impartial regulator be trusted? (Greenpeace Canada, January 26, 2012) As controversy increases over the Harper government’s attacks on environmental groups, Greenpeace Canada today released internal government documents obtained under Access to
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Long Emergency Department Admissions Shorten Lives
Via ImpactedNurse.com, another study showing prolonged emergency department stays are less than optimal: There were 41,256 admissions from the ED. Mortality generally increased with increasing boarding time, from 2.5% in patients boarded less than 2 hours to 4.5% in patients boarding 12 hours or more (p < 0.001). Mean hospital
Continue readingSome caterpillars
…will never become butterflies. Goodbye, Progress Rail, and good riddance. May labour uprisings follow you wherever you crawl.
Continue readingUSA, Canada and jobs: two divergent paths
For the fifth straight month, the US has shown solid gains in jobs. In January, the country gained a healthy 243,000 of them. During the same month, Canada gained only 2,300 jobs, less than a tenth of what was anticipated. The jobless rate has hit a 9-month high. What’s really scary
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: More Hands Found in Harper’s Deep Pockets
In 2007, knowing that they couldn’t ride Adscam forever, the Harper government put our tax dollars to good use, by hiring a private investigator to dig into the Liberal’s polling expenses. However, the firm he hired did not uncover the results he was hoping for. An independent investigator hired by
Continue readingRecreating Eden: As Harper Picks Away at Canadian Values, Krugman Suggests What May Be Ahead
If I seem to be spending too much time on this Canadian and Quebec blog talking about the US, it’s because I’m afraid that Stephen Harper and his friends slowly pushing us in the direction of the US right wing vision of what a country should be to its citizens.
Continue readingSusan G. Walther-Komen soft on guns. Hard on women.
It’s OK. It’s pink! I felt a little bad feeling so much animosity towards a person, but Nancy Brinker’s reaction to her disengagement from Planned Parenthood has quickly become the stuff of history. Not the good kind mind you, but the wrong-side kind. Now I find her organization is soft
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for February 03, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines for Friday, February 03, 2012 from Wise Law on Twitter: International Court of Justice: Germany can’t be sued in foreign courts for Nazi crimes Lawyers Still Have a Lot to Learn About Technology, Ethics 20/20 Witnesses Say Links to the new complaints filed against
Continue readingJames Moore should apologize to Sun News’ Kris Sims
“Hi, I’m Kris Sims. I used to be a journalist.” He called her a “pawn” of QMI and Pierre Karl Peladeau. He should have called her a pawn of the Conservatives. Sims is not so much an agent provocateur of state broadcaster Sun News as she is a compatriot of
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Alberta Liberals Trend Towards Zero-Seat Finish
There’s a new poll out for Alberta this week, done by the company “Return on Insight” (ROI), which I don’t know very much about but is commissioned by the CBC to do polling from time to time, and have never been particularly crazy with any results. Their topline numbers fit
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Inadvertent humour, the MHI report edition #nlpoli
The Telegram editorial on the Manitoba Hydro review of Muskrat Falls is a tidy bit of work with some sound advice: The bottom line? Anyone who wants to say anything — either for or against — about this project should read the whole report carefully, and with an open mind.
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Speaking of political theatre
While the National Post does its best to hype the threat posed by Iran, here’s the news I can’t seem to find from a Canadian source: WASHINGTON, Feb 1, 2012 (IPS) – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told Israeli leaders Jan. 20 that the United
Continue readingShoot for the cure
Only in America. Yet another reason to give the Komen franchisers a wide berth. Because breast cancer is too important, too real and too lethal to be so shamefully [co-opted](http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/292206/20120202/planned-parenthood-susan-komen-penn-state.htm) and corporatized. [H/t]
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Fault Is In Ourselves
We have nurtured an old curmudgeon. He or she has been with us for a long time. However, we have never had so many of them at the same time. Carol Goar writes in this morning’s Toronto Star: Across jurisdictions, political leaders seem to have forgotten their authority comes from
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Your Daily Nazi: If Anyone Is Still Looking For CanCon In The "Nazi Leaks" Docs
While the original site is down, it is being mirrored here. I haven’t had a chance to go through it yet myself. Maybe over the weekend. There are apparently a few people close to Free Dominion in it. Latest from CBC here.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – More BSG
The BSG Motif week continues, with the 6/8 Shape of things to come last week, Allegro in 4/4 this week. Bear McCreary works his magic for us again. Love the syncopation in this piece. Filed under: Music Tagged: Allegro, Bear McCreary, BSG, Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readinggay persons of color: Video fail: Gay Chicken – SteamRoomStories.com
This video, Gay Chicken, one of the webisodes of Steam Room Stories, makes me want to put a bag over my head in shame for being of the same species as the other human beings who produced this piece of junk. Seriously. What’s the message here? Comedy? Portraying men as
Continue readingwmtc: help me get rid of zip
When we lived in NYC, I was hugely into Netflix. The selection and convenience were terrific, and for frequent movie watching, the flat monthly fee was a great value. After moving to Canada, we joined Zip… and thus began the saga. Zip (now owned by media giant Rogers) has a
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