Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Pamela Palmater discusses how the Cons’ push to monetize First Nations reserves ultimately looks to be little more than another giveaway to the…
2012
Because ….
…..some animals are more equal than others, I guess. At least that seems to be the message in McGuinty’s Ontario.* *Doctors, teachers, and most other public servants need not apply.…
Young, Urban, and Farming in Rural Ontario
In Ontario women from the city are defying stereotypes and running farms. Once the purview of the stereotypical old white farmer who hates cow-tippers, now women raised in cities are…
From the Book Front: Big Auction of Larry McMurtry’s Books and the Future of Used Books
“Wanted Dead or Alive: Used Books” was the headline in The New York Times story about a huge auction of some 300,000 books. Larry McMurtry, the best selling novelist of…
Monday Morning ‘Rider Blogging
Most of the commentary on Friday’s loss to Edmonton has focused on the common traits between the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ last three losses. But the more important developments may have been…
A roundabout tail
Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: 100 cats
The Bain of Mitt Romney’s Existence
The folks of Freeport, Illinois know what it’s like when Bain Capital comes to town and, pretty soon, so will most Americans. Whether he likes to admit it or not,…
We know how to have fun
Here are some of the things we did this weekend: Spent a day out at Chandler’s, painting and glazing the rest of our pottery pieces. Went to the International Puppet…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, August 13, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, August 13, 2012: 19 incredible Apple secrets revealed in court via Fortune Magazine Australia judge makes first…
Charest Will Win
I'm calling it right now. A Liberal minority government. Polls show that the PQ is leading right now with the support of those alienated by Charest's stance on education and…
Charest Will Win
I’m calling it right now. A Liberal minority government. Polls show that the PQ is leading right now with the support of those alienated by Charest’s stance on education and…
Charest Will Win
I'm calling it right now. A Liberal minority government. Polls show that the PQ is leading right now with the support of those alienated by Charest's stance on education and…
Charest Will Win
I’m calling it right now. A Liberal minority government. Polls show that the PQ is leading right now with the support of those alienated by Charest’s stance on education and…
Biophilic Cities: This is Your City on Nature
Another summer city weekend is almost here. Chances are there is a park in your future: urban parks offer the ultimate escape from the noise and the heat. Great parks…
Wealth and Health
We have known for twenty-five years that neo-conservative economic policies produce extreme income inequality. Now a report by the Canadian Medical Association makes clear that the same policies have led…
From A Star Reader
My sentiments exactly, Steve: Re: A G20 cop’s close call, Aug. 10 I am a 59-year-old middle-class law-abiding person. That said, I cannot help but remark on the juxtaposition of…
dispatches from post-racial america: stop-and-frisk on a national level
Remember when Barack Obama was elected, how international media declared that racism in the US had been vanquished? How academics and pundits started using the term “post-racial” to describe US…