The five second rule
It was the best game of zenball ever, and the crowd was wild with excitement: the whisper of butterfly wings was deafening. The Rotrovra Koan Kangaroos had just scored their…
2011
Today’s Job Numbers
Analysis from my colleague Sylvain Schetagne: A decreasing unemployment rate is not always a sign of a strong labour market. The decrease in the unemployment rate from 7.4% to 7.2%…
Further Notes In Advance Of The Economic Apocalypse
Just a quick note and I'm off to Walmart to stock up on canned items. Lucky for me, TD (my financial institution) has such shitty service its actually impossible to…
Injury, Death, and Concealment: A Tale of Two Police Forces
I have written previously about the botched drug raid by the Hamilton Police resulting in serious injury to Burmese immigrant Po La Hay, who suffered facial lacerations, three broken ribs…
A Reading Find: The Real Shangri-la
The other day, A and I were talking about our kids. One thing led to another as it does, and soon we were talking about patriarchy and matriarchy. A, who…
On that whole Nycole Turmel thing …
While we're on the subject of journalistic ethics, let me just cite pogge and thwap. They've already said it better than I can.From pogge:Every year or two I find a…
TechCrunch: New technology N00ter to bust ISPs that throttle
A net neutrality (Internet openness) tool has been developed, which lets you know when your ISP is slowing you down. Bigger changes need to be made, though, before we can…
Media Blows Another Unemployment Rate Announcement
Unemployment rates, like political opinion polls, are in my opinion so useless that an intelligent media would simply ignore them. In this case the reason is because the statistics in…
#SunMedia and journalistic ethics: another juxtaposition
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A whole bunch of stuff
The Baseline Cowboys raised $300 in empties and spare change for Christie Lake Kids on Wednesday! Rumour has it they’ve also volunteered to help out with Christie Lake’s cooking program.…
It’s Always Been About Jobs
Many people criticize Paul Krugman for being too shrill. But, after all, the policy elites have chosen not to take his advice; and, as economies around the world continue to…
Republicans Still Oppose Tax increases!
The Republican position on taxes has never changed over the past few years. They will be against any tax increases. Even tax reform which would actually lower the Corporate tax…
Invest In Leather
...because you can always boil your leather gear for its nutritional value, and I predict that by next year such considerations will be top-of -mind for most people.
Will Canada Survive Another Recession?
News on the economic front is that we could be heading toward another financial crisis.Canada survived the last one, because of measures put in place by previous governments. Measures that…
A Really Good Ad Campaign
People For Good wants to remind you to do good things everyday. Throughout Canada mysterious ads have appeared promoting People For Good and it turns out it’s a few marketers…
Watch: 2011 Queer of the Year Finalists at Montreal Pride
Meet (below) Célio, Christine, Eric, Jason, Tim and Yenna, the six finalists for the exciting 2011 international Queer of the Year competition in Montreal, which runs from Sunday, August 7,…
What Happens In The Bass Boat, Stays….
I think everyone was a bit surprised when we learned that Stephen Harper and Rob Ford are "fishing buddies". I think nobody is surprised in the least to learn the…
On the John Oakley Morning Show today at 8:10 am
Talking about appointing or electing judges.
140 Law – Legal Headlines for August 5, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Buffalo lawmakers irate at law firm ad set in council chambers -http://goo.gl/c3HHGThe Push for Judicial Diversity - http://goo.gl/n5PlHJustice Minister Nicholson…