Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2012-06-28 22:08:00
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2012
Intern Chronicle #3: Taco Cornucopia
In this week’s Intern Chronicle: business, tacos, Floyd, and reporting! OpenMedia.ca International North Vancouver OpenMedia.ca Street Team Event
Research In Motion posted the most devastating earnings report in its history, announcing a half-billion dollar loss
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? ~G.K. Chesterton: http://m.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/rim-to-chop-5000-jobs-delays-launch-of-blackberry-10/article4377677/?service=mobile Research In Motion Ltd. has posted the most devastating earnings…
Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2012-06-28 21:08:00
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What you need to know about the shutdown of over-the-air analog service
CBC/Radio-Canada is decommissioning its over-the-air analogue television transmission network on July 31, 2012.
Prairie Bible Institute releases statement on closed Facebook group
It’s appropriate PBI respond to a partial statement made by Three Hills RCMP (the jurisdictional detachment for PBI); it is puzzling thatthe avenue the administration chose to release this statement…
Important summary judgment decision on "A Contract Relating To The Implementation of the Nunavut Final Agreement"
NTI v. Canada (Attorney General), 2012 NUCJ 11 was released today. It is a very important decision granting partial summary judgment against the Crown in favour of the Inuit of…
Exxon’s Tillerson: Could We Really Have Expected a Tiger to Change its Stripes?
exxon.jpg By Cindy Baxter, originally published at PolluterWatch.org. When Greenpeace first began focussing on ExxonMobil's funding of climate denial, its CEO and Chairman was arch denier Lee Raymond. Raymond had…
US Supreme Court rules US Affordable Health Care Act is Constitutional..
…the surprising thing here is that Chief Justice John Roberts, the conservative judge appointed by GW Bush, is the deciding vote, and not the usual “moderate conservative” Anthony Kennedy. He…
Friends in High Places
Medals for everyone! It’s good that she’s so proud of her public service that brought her the public recognition, as to be so shy as to decline to speak about…
Archbishop Fulton Sheen moves closer to sainthood
For me frowing up Fulton J. Sheen was the archetype of a Bishop. http://mobile.washingtonpost.com/rss.jsp?rssid=4220853&item=http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/famed-american-archbishop-fulton-sheen-moves-closer-to-sainthood/2012/06/28/gJQAcyai9V_mobile.mobile&cid=-1&fullSiteUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnational%2Fon-faith%2Ffamed-american-archbishop-fulton-sheen-moves-closer-to-sainthood%2F2012%2F06%2F28%2FgJQAcyai9V_story.html VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday (June 28) recognized Archbishop Fulton Sheen's "heroic virtues,"…
National Journal: Lawmakers and groups pushing for TPP transparency
We have momentum! Thanks to all of you who have signed and shared the StopTheTrap.net petition, our representatives are starting to feel the heat. Adding to it all, yesterday U.S.…
Unstructured Thinking on Open Data: A response to Tom Slee
apologies for any typos, I’d like to look this over more, but I’ve got to get to other work. Tom Slee has a very well written blog post with a…
Thumb in the eye of BC taxpayers
The BC Liberal policy is firmly established. Reward your important friends and give the rest – teachers, paramedics, etc. – a firm kick in the ass. Of course, agency directors…
Will the NDP be better for teachers?
Much of the commentary about the tentative agreement suggests that teachers will do better negotiating with an NDP government. I’m not so sure about that. While I think it would…
Hospital CEO resigns after board rejects “improvement” plan
Staff of the Perth and Smiths Fall District Hospital were told today CEO Todd Stepaniuk has resigned. Stepaniuk, who helmed the organization for 12 years, appears to have lost a…
Uncompromising Freedom of Speech
A German Salafist Muslim Group (Salafists generally considered an extremist variant of Islam) is causing controversy with a plan to distribute some 25 million German language Korans. That something specific…
The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #15
This is Update #15 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Gleniffer Lake reopens, although cleanup of the shoreline is not yet finished, Alberta Environment said the water quality is…
U.S. Right-to-Work Thinking Now Infecting Canada
It’s clear we’re going to have to gear up our arguments on right-to-work laws, dues check-off, the Rand Formula, etc. In the last year three mainstream parties have introduced proposals…
Health Care Dissent: Here’s What The Conservative Wing Wanted To Happen
I find the entire argument conservatives are making against healthcare here so bizarre.As if healthcare were one type of market just like any other, it isn’t. First, we are talking…