humans of new york: a photographic census of nyc
Assuming I am not the last person on earth to find this site, you might share my enjoyment of Humans of New York, a photo project by Brandon Stanton, documenting…
2012
Olympian insult
For the life of me, I cannot understand why the hedonistic Olympics brass refuse to permit a moment of silence for the Israeli athletes murdered at their Olympics in 1972.…
Mostly competent government
The Harper Government™ is so determined to stall the repatriation of Omar Khadr that it’s prepared to anger an ally and make itself look incompetent and duplicitous in the process.…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, July 27, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, July 27, 2012: Changes Reportedly Make Skype Chats More Accessible to Police A tale of two epidemics:…
CHCH hit by loss of programming fund
FRIENDS says the LPIF was flawed, but the CRTC should have rewritten the rules to truly help independents such as CHCH.
The Magic Number #nlpoli
“Nalcor’s position”, wrote the joint federal-provincial review panel on the Lower Churchill project, “was that up to 800 MW of energy from the Project would be required to meet provincial…
Would you discuss transit issues with a guy dressed up as a stormtrooper?
Rob Ford did. That’s what his staff are claiming, in any event. As I said to a Globe reporter yesterday: ”If a guy wearing a white hard hat, with a…
what i’m reading: invisible man meets the zombies of zone one
I’m in the middle of reading Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, now removed from the Famous Books I Haven’t Read Yet list. The novel is an exploration of African-American identity in…
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s Official White Supremacist Portrait: PHOTO
Our Ford, the (Lord) Mayor of Toronto is rabidly right-wing. No doubt about that. After all, he recently proposed exiling Toronto’s convicted criminals, most of whom tend to be persons…
Fortunately my blog will never lose value!!!
Facebook Facebook Inc. shares fell more than 10 per cent in premarket trading on Friday after the company’s lack of a financial forecast reinforced concerns about its mobile strategy. The…
Montreal’s English-speaking sports fans rally for their radio team by Steve Ladurantaye
Bell Media’s recent $3-billion takeover Astral Media has put it over the cap of two FM and two AM stations in any language in a market.
Glorifying War
Yves Engler writes this morning that the Conservative government is preparing to go to war: By setting up overseas bases and increasing the military’s size, the Conservatives are preparing for…
Toronto District School Board Blinks
As I suspected, after yesterday’s Star story about the Toronto District School Board’s outrageous demand for $3.6 million to release work order information related to the costs incurred in their…
Let the Games begin!!!!
Story here:
A day at the pool?
Fairbank Pool?
Save our Farms! Follow Farmer Friday!
A Farmer in a parched field… So, in case you haven’t noticed, both from my previous Movie Monday post and any time spent out side for most of July, it’s…
Saturday At The Movies
Happy people dancing on Planet Earth, from Matt Harding’s “Where The Hell is Matt?” YouTube video series. Touching and fun. Humans the world over have more in common than we…
Upset with Obama? Could be worse – you could get Romney.
A fair number of progressive political activists in the US and some in Canada are disappointed that Obama has not been as progressive or transformational as they like, and has…
Ask General Kang: Apparently, only one in four people read a book last year — how can we improve that figure?
I’d start by disabling the publishing industry in some way — perhaps an elite cadre of pulp-loving squirrels armed with plasma-shredders and capable of firing book worms out of their…