geoengineering_diagram1-660×439.jpg Regular readers of my posts will know that I’ve often focused on the work of Yale’s Dan Kahan and his colleagues, who have published fascinating research on how our…
Make no mistake: the frothy Rick Santorum is weird in ways that go light-years beyond grotesque. But when he obligingly provides so much material for his opponents to work with,…
What do you get when you combine a master storyteller and investigative journalist? Mike Daisey is one answer, a storyteller and performer whose story about what happens inside an Apple…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, January 9th, 2012: Geist: Are Canada’s digital laws unconstitutional? – Toronto Star Maple Lodge Farms hit with…
Scientists told some American fishermen before Christmas that the cod the fishermen depend on for their livelihood are in danger of disappearing unless the fishermen change their ways. Frig off,…
I watched in mild horror ‘Question Period’ yesterday. Horror, not because CTV is too cheap to broadcast the show in HD, but because of the nonsense delivered on behalf of…
Today’s Star editorial offers a gloomy but apparently realistic assessment of the direction Canada’s manufacturing is headed in. Abetted by the federal and Ontario McGuinty provincial governments’ seeming indifference to…
When the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives came out with its report on the 100 highest-paid CEOs in Canada, the pro-Internet community saw some familiar names from Rogers, Bell, and…
There has been a lot of talk over the last couple of years about reforming Canada’s democratic institutions — electing the Senate, moving to proportional representation, and cleaning up Question…
Selley: Nothing will force the mayor into a retreat on the Sheppard subway. He will insist on its viability and impending ground breaking until the day he leaves office, and…
Added by Timbotron via Blogdilla And to think if Stephen Harper had been PM at the time, we’d be party to this. The percentage of Iraqis who are suffering in…
“I would love him as much as I did the second before he said it, and I would try to do everything I can to be as good a father…
It’s Meatless Monday! The Meatless Monday campaign encourages people to give up meat at least one day a week, for their health and the health of the planet. This hilarious…
More about the increasingly unequal society that is the US: Today Paul Krugman rails against those who are bent on making the playing field even more bumpy. After pointing out…
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Dr. Dawg views the latest attacks on workers by employers in Canada as a new front in all-out class warfare. And the New…
Despite the dispute between Time Warner and the MSG Network regarding the broadcast of Buffalo Sabres games, FRIENDS says it’s not in the interest of MLSE to withold signals from…
Government Procurement is Broken: Example #5,294,702 or “The Government’s $200,000 Useless Android Application” by Rich Jones This post is actually a few months old, but I stumbled on it again…
OTTAWA – The Harper government has hired a consultant to inject a little war into this year’s Canada Day bash on Parliament Hill. A Toronto theatre expert has been asked…
Who will rise this year to challenge Stephen Harper, to oppose him credibly? There might be many credible attacks on the Conservatives in 2012, but the no one will be…
