The Myth of Expansionary Austerity
As the US and Europe turn from stimulus to fiscal austerity, claims are heard that spending cuts actually stimulate economic growth. That is the argument heard, not just from the…
July 2011
Masnick: Court Refuses To Issue Injunction Stopping Secret Web Spycams From Running On Rental Laptops
By Mike Masnick for TechDirt A couple months ago, we wrote about the class action lawsuit from a family who discovered that the company from whom they had rented a…
Media Advisory (Vancouver) – Social Change-Makers and Academics to Convene at Forum to Combat "Lawful Access" Bills
openmedia_logo.jpg WHO: Michael Byers -- Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law Christopher Parsons -- Department of Political Science, University of Victoria Michael Vonn...
Ellis: Beyond UBB: the CRTC’s war on Canadian consumers
By David Ellis for Life on the Broadband Internet In my previous post, I suggested the consumer ISP complaints revealed recently are bad enough, but only the tip of a…
Yes, BC Blue, Dean Skoreyko, Toronto Star Just Ain’t a Classy a Paper as, Say, The Toronto Sun?
It’s been awhile since I’ve verbally bitch slapped a blogging supposiTory. I’m going back to it, because, well, they just lend themselves to it. BC Blue Dean Skoreyko, Come on…
Shades of Green: Industrialization
Sometimes the magnitude of the environmental challenges facing us today seems overwhelming. So we traditionally examine the larger problem in fragmented details. We isolate one part of a huge complexity…
Farber On Healthcare, Redux
Back a week or so, CJC head and provincial Liberal Party candidate for Thornhill Bernie Farber penned a column for Shalom Life in which he was critical of Ontario's health-care…
3949…Slow Down You Move Too Fast
A day after Jack Layton's announcement that he was stepping down let's get one thing clear.He ain't dead.Jonathan Malloy, a political scientist affiliated with Canada's 46th best university, Carleton, does…
Law regarding "gift"
McNamee v. McNamee, 2011 ONCA 533 contains a useful summary of the law on "gift": Although the term "gift" is not defined in the Family Law Act, a gift, generally…
What is Severe Autism?
What is severe autism? Kim Oakley asks the question rhetorically before answering it in Silent Alarm. I strongly recommend anyone who wants to know what severe autism is read this…
3948…Is Nothing Sacred?
Cut and paste from Slate to you:McDonald’s announced on Tuesday that it will revamp its famed children’s meal to make it healthier. The fast food chain will shrink Happy Meal…
This Thing Can’t Go On
My friend PoMoAnachro is doing this Steampunk LARP. Costumes are an awful lot of fun, and if you can get enough people serious about costuming, the venue isn’t necessarily as…
Opinion piece blaming food banks misses the point
It's time to close Canada's food banks - The Globe and MailElaine Power may be an associate professor, but that doesn't mean she isn't on crack. In her piece (link…
The Winnipeg Jets
Proudly supporting the flag/troops. I have no doubt this will be a popular choice. The militarization of our national game has been ongoing for years and it also has the…
My WorkStory: Social Media Communications
I was recently contact by Natalie Allen regarding a project she and her colleague David Stanley at the University of Guelph are working on. The project, WorkStory.net, is a collection…
cartoon life 2011-07-26 11:15:49
I broke my rule about not painting late at night, when I tend to do stupid things because I’m tired and just want to do something, and just to get…
Shorter Margaret Wente
The reason I am shouting "Nothing to see here!", at the top of my lungs is, I am really afraid you are going to take a close look at my…
Scientists close to finding ‘God’ particle
“It's the linchpin of the standard model of particle physics that explains the Big Bang theory, and is believed to give mass to other … objects and creatures in the…
On successorship strategies
Naturally, Jack Layton's announcement that he's taking a temporary leave from the NDP's leadership has led to a wide assortment of speculation as to what might come next for the…
How the WSJ’s former owners could REALLY screw Rupert Murdoch
When the News of the World scandal began to really explode at the beginning of the month some intrepid reporter went and tracked down members of the Bancroft family -…