The Happiness Game
“The essence of the philosophy of Gross National Happiness is the peace and happiness of our people and the security and sovereignity of our nation” The Centre For Bhutan Studies,…
January 2013
Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age 2001–2012
An international exhibition of political poster design, Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age: 2001-2012 is currently on display at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Curated by…
Plug-in electric car sales in Canada, 2012 (via GreenCarReports)
My new adventures as a Canadian correspondent for GreenCarReports.com begin with this post. Readers are encouraged to show them some love. 🙂 My ongoing efforts to track Canadian EV sales…
Jan. 21: The TandT did not appear……
…some sort of trouble with the presses. Alas! It is available on the net. Big story on C1 about the French invasion of Mali to intervene in a rebellion against…
How Millennials Can Improve Everyone’s Job Satisfaction
Quack. It’s 9am, do you know where your millennial employees are? No? No worries. It’s all good. They’re not factory chickens. People who study characteristics of different generations have some…
Retreat from Science: Interview with Federal Scientist Peter Ross Part 2 of 2
On April 1, 2013 Canada will lose its sole marine contaminants research program. The loss comes as a part of a massive dismantling of science programs at the Department of…
5544…Most Famous Ontarioian Is
Andrew Wiggins. Perhaps not today but next year when he is wrecking it in college basketball NCAA style you can tell the world you read it here first. He is…
5543…Home Stretch In Ontario For Liberals/Preem
So here is the deal. The front runners are two women, imagine, neck and neck. Windsor’s Sandra Pupatello and the GTA’s Kathleen Wynne. Ms. Pupatello did not run last time…
5542…NYC Bans Women Smoking In Public
On this day. In 1908. Did not stick. WFDS
Angus-Reid BC Poll: 46% NDP, 31% BC Lib
Angus-Reid have been busy bees this week, now throwing up a new British Columbia provincial poll which doesn’t actually show too much different from their last poll, despite these sorts…
5541…Happy Martin Luther King Day
Yes it is here and, kismet, it coincides with President Barack Obama’s inauguration. For puck heads it means hockey in the afternoon; for ballers hoop in the jour. Give ‘er.…
Norway’s experience with Big Oil offers lessons for Idle No More
by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Jan 21, 2013: Norway’s experience with Big Oil offers lessons for Idle No More and other progressive movements determined to stop Prime Minister…
Scope of paralegal practice in Ontario
The regulatory scheme set out in the Law Society’s By-Law 4 permits paralegals in Ontario to practise in what were already permitted areas of practice. Subsection 6 (2) authorizes licensed…
Richard Heinberg on Earthgauge Radio this week
This Thursday on Earthgauge Radio, we’ll be featuring a speech by the influential author Richard Heinberg from the Bioneers Conference back in November. Heinberg is a senior Fellow-in-Residence at Post…
Is there a way to "fight our own government"
I’ve been toying with the idea of starting a regular feature on my blog, a weekly post about the facebook memes (maybe Meme-y Monday) that I end up seeing, going…
Canada’s Conservative TV News Network Seeks Government Help for Survival by Etan Vlessing
Columnist says the do-or-die application to the CRTC from Sun News Network calls for more subscriber revenue to stem deep operating losses.
Canada’s Conservative TV News Network Seeks Government Help for Survival by Etan Vlessing
Columnist says the do-or-die application to the CRTC from Sun News Network calls for more subscriber revenue to stem deep operating losses.
An Everday Story of Cats
(Click photos to enlarge) Filed under: Fun Tagged: cats in motion, urban photography
The Power of Idle No More’s Resurgent Radicalism
The remarkable Idle No More movement is the biggest and most important national outpouring of grassroots aboriginal anger ever seen in Canada. Not since the late 1960s when Indians (as…