Wednesday Morning Robocon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor dig deeper into the story behind Robocon alias Pierre Poutine. – Maurice Vellacott admits that the voter lists…
March 2012
How Litigation Should Be
From a real ad in Ontario.
Portraits of Nurses at War
A small selection of photographs from the National Archives of Canada. Nurses have served with the Canadian military since Northwest Rebellion in 1885 and small contingents were sent to the…
Nunavut gets two new judges – both excellent choices!
Andrew Mahar, Bonnie Tulloch named to Nunavut Court of Justice March 2 NUNATSIAQ NEWS The federal Department of Justice announced two new judicial appointments to the Nunavut Court of Justice…
Poll-dancing
No doubt Barbara Yaffe’s column this morning—dissing Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition and pretending the Liberals are once again in second place—would be seen by her and her collegial in-group as…
BC Teachers On Strike Yet Still Teaching
This week Teachers in BC haven’t even been in the classroom, yet they’ve still managed to teach their students one of the most important things; how to take a stand.…
Green Spaces Can Reduce Gun Violence
Countries and regions with a lot of gun violence may want to note that the simple act of providing more green space in urban areas can reduce gun-related crime. In…
Can Geeks Defeat Lies? Thoughts on a Fresh New Approach to Dealing With Online Errors, Misrepresentations, and Quackery
fact check universe.png This afternoon, I’ll be at MIT for this conference, sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard and the MIT Center for Civic Media…
Studies on mortality questioned #nlpoli
Studies that claim exercise reduces the risk of mortality can’t be true since the risk of mortality is absolute. You can delay death, but it, like taxes and a Ryan…
RoboCon – It Doesn’t Matter One Rotting Dingo’s Kidney,…
Let’s be perfectly clear here, it Doesn’t Matter One Rotting Dingo’s Kidney whether the people who perpetrated the voter suppression crime in last years election are linked to the CPC,…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, March 7, 2012: The Myth of Due Diligence by Lawyers in the Cloud Master MacLeod Discusses Appropriate…
Defeat from the Jaws of Victory?
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and the poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.” – Anatole France As…
The all-gas mask revival of Hamlet
The 1937 all-gas mask revival of Hamlet at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre would have probably gone down in the annals of theatre history as the best all-gas mask production —…
Guess Who Doesn’t Support Our Troops?
If you guessed Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party, you are correct. While dear leader and company pull out all of the rhetorical stops about supporting the troops when it serves their…
Exploring Economics
Food for thought … he economists’ tragedy: The ambition to create the ultimate model results in a theory of human behaviour which cannot hold unless the humans populating the model…
In And Out With Robotic Precision
This vote to limit Elections Canada’s power, was before RoboCon came to wider public light? Makes you wonder if that’s why they are dropping this ridiculous lawsuit? And they’re allegedly…
The Drums Are Getting Louder
The beat goes on. And it gets louder. Mitt Romney claims that President Obama is a weakling: “If Barack Obama is re-elected,” Romney robotically swaggered in Georgia, “Iran will have…
Blog geek stuff – external voting button for Prog Blog
One of the features we’ve been trying to resurrect since “new” Progressive Bloggers went up is the ability for external votes to work on people’s blogs.. so they can have…
Checking Jerome’s Numbers #nlpoli
In the House of Assembly on Tuesday, natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy said: The Muskrat Falls Generating Station will cost $2.9 billion and the Labrador-Island Link will cost $2.1 billion.…