As some readers and International Open Data Hackathon participants know, I’m really keen on developers reusing each others code. All too often, in hackathons, we like to build something from scratch (which can be fun) but I’ve always liked the idea of hackathons either spurring genuine projects that others can reuse, or using a hackathon […]
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Alberta to balance budget, cure cancer, put men on Mars by 2013
Members of the 2013 Alberta Mars Mission solemnly mark Peter Lougheed’s birthday with cupcakes, non-alcoholic soda and a spacewalk. The Alberta Space Ship Wild Rose can be observed lower right. Alberta political promises may not turn out to be exactl…
Continue readingGeoff at Mount Allison: Graduate Record Exam (GRE) Results and Grad. School Applications
So as I earlier mentioned, I took the GRE back in August. I got the score back this week and I did pretty well. I spent a lot of time with Barron’s new GRE test prep book and I can honestly say I wasn’t surprised at any of the types of questions whi…
Continue readingMind of Dan: Happy Birthday Carl
Thank you for inspiring us
Carl Sagan was born on this day back in 1934
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Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Stupid is as stupid does
Wasn’t Rick Perry talking a couple of weeks ago about skipping more debates? Shoulda oughta done it.
Continue readingthe woodshed: How long?
This week at Berkely.How much more will the wealthy’s bought and paid for politicians rob from the poor to give to the rich? How much more will people allow their economic and social mobility to be restricted?How much longer are audiences going to tune…
Continue readingYa. We came a long way. Baybay.
Or something like that.
But that road is still a hundred million miles long. Wage disparity and discrimination are still daily battles.
And sexual harassment.
Often enough, even though sexual harassment is considered social pariah territory, i…
Continue readingAbortion Access in Prince Edward Island
Can be best described as non-existent. According to the CBC’s The Current, some women are so desperate to terminate their pregnancies that they self-induce. Those who are able to afford the expense are required to travel to Fredericton or H…
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Bill C-10: Time Does Not Stop Crime
Nov. 8, 2011: 300 Winnipeggers demonstrated at the Manitoba Legislature and the Winnipeg Remand Centre to urge the Manitoba Government to join Quebec, Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador in opposing the Harper government’s omnibus crime bill, misleadingly titled the Safe Streets and Communities Act (aka Bill C-10). Their key message, “time does not stop crime” […]
Continue readingcmkl: Jim Flaherty pushes back deadline for balanced budget
Gosh. Never saw that coming. He could beat his earlier date if only he’d rescind those corporate tax cuts and use the money to put people back to work instead.
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: More facts that gun registry opponents will deny
Once again, their assertions of long gun registry opponents have little connection to actual facts.
79.7% of firearms seized by Canadian law enforcement agencies are non-restricted long guns – the very same rifles and shotguns that will be deregister…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Oops!
In tonight’s latest installment of the GOP Dating Game, Rick Perry makes it clear that, if elected, he would immediately scrap three federal government departments: Education, Commerce, and… one he’s completely unable to identify by name. In fact, it’s the … Continue reading →
Continue readingRusty Idols: If Ezra Levant pushed his way into your house and wouldn’t leave, wouldn’t YOU call the cops?
OTTAWA – When the CBC’s Mary Walsh shows up unannounced with a camera crew at Toronto mayor Rob Ford’s house, the state broadcaster considers it comedy. When Sun News Network’s Ezra Levant pops up in the lobby of the CBC’s Toronto headquarters with a camera operator, it’s a matter for
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The myopic terrorism lens
One of the main failures of western understanding of the Middle East and South Asia, and the subsequent failures of actions taken by the west in these regions, stems from viewing these regions through the lens of terrorism. This terrorism-centric view…
Continue readingIs Public Eye More Famous Now That It Is….
AllTheW’sThatFitHolmanVille…..Offline?Looks like it just might be, based on the response of the slightly less ‘independent’ media.The proprietor himself, S.M. Holman, has the story:”It’s been just over a week since I announced I was suspending Public…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Evening Links
Assorted content for your evening reading.- Murray Dobbin nicely summarizes what the Cons are hoping to do in prioritizing big-money “philanthropy” over a functional state and civil society:Ideology is meaning in the service of power, and the Conservat…
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