Amanda Lang of CBC: The Financial Expert
Lately, Amanda Lang has been a regular on several CBC-News shows. She has her own show with Kevin O'Leary and quite often she hosts the National, the nightly news program.…
2011
Juxtaposition
An unnamed person with some clue about economics: Pundits, Very Serious Politicians, and more have spent the past two years plus doing everything they can to make the deficit the…
Michele Bachmann’s legs and Google
Google is a strange beast. I awoke this morning to see that the phrase 'Michele Bachmann legs' has garnered a respectable number of hits overnight for this blog. Which is…
Mount Allison University Athletics on Social Media
As more and more people adopt social media use its easier to connect to students, staff, and faculty at Mount Allison. That is evidenced particularly well when it comes to…
SPO Policy Assembly & Updates
Join us for the first annual Policy Assembly of the Socialist Party of Ontario. SPO Policy Assembly Saturday, August 27th, 2011 10-4p.m Oshawa Public Library 250 Beatrice St. E. Oshawa,…
Music and Images: Where the River of Music Can Take You
Back to working on the next novel, called River Music. One of the main characters is a Canadian woman pianist who becomes celebrated, in part because her version of Debussy"s…
Why the Democrats need a primary for the presidency
Reading about the Republican debate last night, one thing has become clear: the Democrats need a primary challenge to Obama. Not for the obvious reasons as was so clearly and…
Some Sounds Only Emerge from Cooperation: Montreal’s Musical Swings, a Lesson for Us All?
These musical swings (each one produced a particular tone) were around for a short period this spring, and I had hoped to try them out, but each time I passed…
Everything About the Shipbuilding Plan Feels Wrong
Frequent readers will know there is no love lost between me and the professional media, but their treatment of the naval shipbuilding plan has been abhorrent even by their usual…
Interesting Tweet On Potential Candidates For LPC President
On August 7, candidate for president of the Liberal Party, Ron Hartling tweeted this: The opponents mentioned in the CKWS report are Mark Holland and Siobhan Coady. According to Hartling…
Adieu, Wendy
It's hard to imagine a world without Wendy Babcock. She died three days ago at the age of 32. After a truly horrible life including life on the streets as…
Vindication For Those Abused By G20 Police Forces
The vast majority of the 1100 people abused, assaulted and arrested as a result of the thuggish actions of the G20 police forces, apparently intent on suppressing Canadians' Charter Rights…
Depressed women face higher risk of stroke
Remember correlation is not the same as causation. And the suggestion that treated depression is still a risk factor for stroke may be a further basis to suggest that depression…
Fun with Numbers: The Conservatives
Last month, I looked at ridings where the Liberals exceeded expectations. Today, a look at ridings where the Tories did better than we would have thought given what was going…
Reassuring Fictions
In times like these, you may believe that all is well. You may enjoy watching the Olympics, eating spam, or perhaps you have many Norwegian friends. You may have the…
Wherein the Globe and Mail yearns for the days of yore, when workers were serfs
My eyed popped out a bit when I read this article: The prime minister’s facing pressure to improve monitoring on the treatment of workers owned by Canadian investors there. Owned…
Why Did Stephen Harper Lock Himself in the Bathroom in Brazil?
A Brazilian newspaper has reported that Stephen Harper locked himself in a bathroom in Brazil, until his hosts agreed to change the itinerary to suit him.The Prime Minister of Canada,…
more pupdate, more where i’ve been
I hate being away from wmtc for so long! Between Tala and my mom's visit, it's been quite the week.Yesterday we went back to the OVC in Guelph for a…
Looting not confined to yobbish youth
Recall the British 2009 MP expenses scandal? Among British MPs of all political stripes there was widespread and brazen misuse of expenses. While it appears youth grabbed flat screen tvs…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for August 12, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Warren Jeffs convicted with Canadian evidence -http://goo.gl/FSzwkGoogle Jumps Into Online-Law Business With Rocket Lawyer - Forbes - http://goo.gl/UsmXdGun collector sues…