Full Dissent: When gay rights and religious rights collide
Canada’s National Post published a roundtable on Friday about when religious rights and the rights of sex and gender minorities collide, in the form of school board policies to protect…
June 2011
Mind. Prepare to be blown away. Big Data, Wikipedia and Government.
Okay, super psyched about this. Back at the Strata Conference in Feb (in San Diego) I introduced my long time uber-quant friend and now Wikimedia Foundation data scientist Diederik Van…
On needless aggression
While I wrote today's column before word came out about the Harper Cons' meddling in the negotiations between Canada Post and CUPW, it looks like the Cons' desire to provoke…
AECL: Harper Government Sells to SNC-Lavalin
The gist of the story is that the seller – the Government of Canada – will pay $75 million to SNC-Lavalin for some new initiatives, and the buyer will write…
Stove Man Turns up the Heat
Stoves can make a world of difference in places that rely extensively on old-school resource like wood and cow patties. Using an efficient stove can save trees from being felled…
Libyan Rebels Are NATO Patsies For A New Great Game In Africa
Today: UK PM Cameron with Mustafa Abdul Jalil, head of rebel TNC & former Gaddafi Justice Minister In the first days following the pro-democracy demonstrations and then uprising in Libya,…
Google Canada from A to Z in English and French
Happy Canada Day tomorrow!From Google.ca auto-search, here is a list of all things Canadian that appear in the search bar when one types the first letter of each letter of…
Canada Day thoughts
Canada is a good place to be. A client, quite seriously, asked me if I was afraid of what might happen in the Provincial election this fall. I replied that…
Stupid Sex Tricks: You’ve heard of road turtles…
…but have you ever heard of AIRPORT turtles? Love is in the air at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. More than 150 turtles crossed over an active…
A Conversation with the Opportunity Maker
Ari Kaplan, the author of The Opportunity Maker, and his new book, Reinventing Professional Services, spoke to Omar Ha-Redeye during his last visit to Toronto.
International Journal of Labour Research
The new issue of the International Journal of Labour Research (edited by Canada’s own Pierre la Liberte ) entitled “Crisis: Causes, Prospects and Alternatives” is now available. The issue takes…
Done! And What I’ve Learned About Writing
The revision is back with my intelligent and meticulous editor. She’ll be reading through it and there may still be some tweaking to do, as well as the copy-edit, but…
Lack of Posts
Hey kids! Sorry it has been over a month since my last post -- I've been hard at work on another project. I'll do my best to get something up…
Time editor calls Obama a ‘dick’ on MSNBC
Liberal media? Give me a break. Mark Halperin, the 'Editor-at-Large' of the weekly rag Time, upset that Obama used strong language to challenge the GOP on the deficit plan, called…
Civil Liberties And Privacy Aside…
“Passage of these bills would mean a lot of additional expenditures for new equipment, training and administration for many of our members who do not necessarily have to financial power…
Tim Hudak and his own caucus vs. your wallet
When Hudak MPP Garfield Dunlop isn't too busy being contracdicted by his own party over handing tax payers the bill for eco fees (see: http://theliberalscarf.blogspot.com/2011/06/tim-hudak-vs-your-wallet-and-his-own.html), he's handing taxpayers the bi...
On political investments
Yes, there's plenty of reason for snark in response to the news that the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce will be (a) pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into this fall's…