Still Alive
Yes, I’m still alive. I haven’t been shut down because I solicited leaks or anything silly like that.
2012
Still Alive
Yes, I'm still alive. I haven't been shut down because I solicited leaks or anything silly like that.
Still Alive
Yes, I’m still alive. I haven’t been shut down because I solicited leaks or anything silly like that.
Deep Throat
Just a brief note today, my love. The downside of eating regularly and relatively well is that when one has to skip meals, one is devastatingly hungry. The reason for…
Canadian Immigration Report Called By Conservatives to Testify
This writer has to be off to work and isn’t sure if the other members are aware of this yet, but we’re sure you could read more about this at…
I was wrong
I’m outraged that Rona Ambrose, Minister of State for the Status of Women in Canada, voted to re-open the abortion debate. The legal right to choose if and when to…
Publication ban proper to protect identity of bullied person however nonidentifying information to be made public
A.B. v. Bragg Communications Inc., 2012 SCC 46 was just released. The Supreme Court upholds publication bans insofar as they protect the identity of people subjected to bullying on the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – The CCPA’s Christopher Schenk offers up a detailed response to the Sask Party’s attacks on workers, featuring this conclusion: In a period…
Cats and a fish
Image built with LetterMpress, overly skeuomorphic software, with sometimes awkward and fussy, unresponsive object manipulation. Still, quite beautiful results. Filed under: art, design, digital Tagged: Cats fish letterpress LetterMpress printing…
The Pot and the Kettle
In several previous posts, I’ve made passing reference to the idea that every generation doubts or outright disparages the “work ethic” of the one following it into the workforce. Conducting…
Supreme Court to rule on Facebook privacy case today!
A Nova Scotia teenager who wants to sue the people she alleges bullied her on Facebook will find out Thursday whether she’ll get to keep her name and details of…
New column day
Here, on how Mitt Romney’s attacks on 47% of American voters is an all-too-natural consequence of rhetoric about taking citizens “off the tax rolls”. For further reading…– Chuck Marr and…
Bums to the left of me, deadbeats to the right
One of the pet issues the Conservatives like to bring up when they want to needle the Liberals is outstanding debt on the part of contenders in the last Liberal…
More managers to front line staff has an impact well beyond cost of salaries
Asking how the ratio of management to front line staff has changed at a public hospital seemed like a straight-forward question. In this era of obsession with hyper-efficiency, you’d think…
Chow for mayor?
She’s no longer doing a Sherman: “…on Wednesday the Opposition transportation critic, former councillor and widow of former NDP leader Jack Layton acknowledged that Torontonians are begging her to run…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, September 27, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, September 27, 2012: New Zealand admits illegally spying on Kim Dotcom Biographer Doesn’t Pull Punches, Calls Rehnquist’s…
News That Gladdens My Heart
Despite its oft-proclaimed demised, print journalism seems to be alive and well, at least in the GTA. As reported in today’s edition, The Toronto Star is enjoying record readership: The…
Following In Nixon’s Footsteps
On the day Stephen Harper will receive the Statesman of the Year award from the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, Yves Engler writes a Swiftian op-ed, suggesting that Harper should really…
What the Quantified Self Movement Says and Tech and Gender
Over the past year or two I’ve been to a couple of unconferences sessions about how people are increasingly measuring different parts of their lives: how far they run, how…