Thursday in the Park with Jeanne and More Than Thirty Years of Subsidized Day Care in Quebec
Today Jeanne is spending the day with us, the first time she's passed a whole day away from her parents some place not her own home. It's momentous in a…
2011
Perspective…
This is what I Tweeted this morning: baldjam 7:51am via HootSuite ALERT! Black BMW. Male driver. Driving S on Russell about 10 min. ago.ALMOST HIT MY WIFE & DAUGHTER.Any info,…
Would You Vote Over The Internet?
I trust computers… to do what their potentially untrustworthy programmers tell them to do. Because it’s computer code that could be corrupted, there’s little means for the layperson voter to…
Murdoch’s Man of the Uncompromising Scoops is Scooped up by Scotland Yard
This 13th hacking arrest as part of Operating Weeting was made yesterday:James Desborough, an award-winning reporter at the former News of the World newspaper, has been arrested by officers investigating…
Atlantic International Studies Organization at Mount Allison University
As we're moving closer to September I'd like to include a mention feature from the Mount Allison University website regarding the Atlantic International Studies Organization (ATLIS). Because ATLIS is such…
mini tala update
For any of you who are following the Tala saga in detail, I now have a clearer picture of the diagnosis. (I certainly don't expect the majority of wmtc readers…
Anderson Cooper’s 360 moment
It is absolutely hillarious. Watch the video and you will know what I mean. Enjoy!
In Solidarity With Michaela Keyserlingk And Jean Charest Also Has Dirty Hands
Ok, for lack of anything original, I’m going to do a variation of what DeBeauxOs did earlier over at Dammit Janet. Boys ‘n’ girls, how do you spell ReformaTory? C-A-N-C-E-R.…
It’s Been 21 Years, One Month, Three Weeks, and One Day
Roughly, or thereabouts, I figure, since I last saw you. Of course, I am forgetting the time I saw you in passing at the top of the escalators in Place…
The Argosy, Mount Allison University’s Independent Student Newspaper releases archived issues (PDFs) from 2009-2010
As Online Editor of the Argosy, Mount Allison University's Independent Student Newspaper (since 1875) my job has been, among other things, to help migrate the website to it's new platform…
Shades of Green: Local Communities and Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Responsibility for reducing carbon dioxide emissions is falling to cities, municipalities and regional districts because wider efforts during the last 30 years to ameliorate the threat of global climate change…
Shinerama at Mount Allison University
I just wanted to make a small mention of a really important cause at Mount Allison: Shinerama. It's an effort that raises money for Cystic Fibrosis Canada, a nonprofit organization…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Naomi Klein points out in the wake of London's riots that there's one kind of socially destructive looting that's been rewarded rather…
New column day
Here, on the desperate need for changes in Saskatchewan's electoral boundaries to better reflect the will of the province's voters. For further reading, see Simon Enoch's recent post, as well…
The Unsung Heroes of The Pro-Internet Movement
We want to take a moment to note some of the unsung heroes of the pro-Internet movement. OpenMedia.ca truly operates as a fluid network of collaborating organizations and people. This…
Our submission to the UBB proceeding: A summary
We recently made our final submission to the CRTC's usage-based billing (also known as "UBB" or "Internet Metering") hearing, which was brought about because of the hundreds of thousands of…
Stealing to save the world – Kenk is a fascinating graphic novel about Toronto’s notorious bike thief
The vilified bike thief Kenk gets a complex treatment in this intriguing graphic novel.
First Thing We Do Is Get Rid Of The Auditors
Life for Tony Clement would be so much easier if people didn't keep records. The problem is that, even though he went to extraordinary lengths to bury those records, they've…
Another Ardent Free Enterpriser Seeks A ‘Left-Wing’ solution
In what can be seen as either an act of hubris (Do as I say or I will unleash Ford Nation during the fall election) or an act of desperation…
ONDP candidate mocks child abuse allegations in Catholic Church and posts dirty jokes on Twitter – Classy guy
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/08/17/facebook-101-loose-lips-hurts-election-campaign Is this why Andrea Horwath is going to such extreme efforts to hide her "team"? Less than 3 weeks before the start of the writ, and the ONDP website…