I remember asbestos mines in the 60s and giant boilers in schools (!!) covered with the stuff! http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/130-years-canadian-asbestos-production-192622068.html MONTREAL – Canada‘s once-mighty asbestos sector has ground to a halt for…
It’s possible that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the military junta that has ruled Egypt since Hosni Mubarak was overthrown last February, will regain the initiative but it…
As promised, let’s take a quick run through plenty of material on the NDP’s leadership campaign… – Straight Goods has posted Ish Theilheimer’s interviews with each of the candidates. –…
Thank you to all those who helped make last night’s celebration of Rafe Mair’s 80th birthday a smashing success! A packed house at Vancouver’s Wise Hall was treated to entertaining…
A silk road Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
I was quoted in the House of Commons question period yesterday by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty. “Hon. Jim Flaherty (Minister of Finance, CPC): Mr. Speaker, I know the NDP bandies…
I wrote the other day that I normally refrain from excerpting large chunks of text from other sources, but here I go again, this time a reproduction of letters from…
Elin spent three years at The Hague, living just off a canal on a street that ended with -laan: neither she nor I can remember the complete name but the…
Ken Sander’s photo TreeHugger
If only that were true. In December of 2010, a staffer in Kelly Block’s office, leaked details of a confidential pre-budget House Finance Committee report, to several key lobbyists. When…
Today I’m meeting with my publicist and have a 3 page list of contacts gleaned from all the helpful suggestions and recommendations of people on my email address list who…
We still have time to raise awareness on Bill C-10, the omnibus crime bill being rammed through the House of Commons by the Stephen Harper Conservatives. LeadNow.ca This would be…
Yesterday, Elections Canada released a study on the problem of youthful apathy on voting day. The study suggests that “young Canadians don’t vote because politicians aren’t able to connect to…
This is a very weird story. Lawyers want judges to copy their submissions — indeed, the main reason to give submissions electronically is to encourage judges to 'cut and paste'.…
It’s Black Friday in America, as we wish our American readers a happy Thanksgiving weekend, our busy week of tweets and headlines is almost at an end. I’ll be blogging…
… double-decker edition… Saw this piece by Lawrence Martin on a possible run by Dalton McGuinty for the leadership of the federal Grits. Interesting. Personally, I’d like to see his…
… in Ottawa while atop one of OC Transpo’s über-cool double deckers! Wheeeeee!!!! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Statistics Canada Data to become OpenData – Background, Winners and Next Steps
As some of you learned last night, Embassy Magazine broke the story that all of Statistics Canada’s online data will not only be made free, but released under the Government…