You can’t fix stupid… .
Traffic Camera A man was driving when he saw the flash of a traffic camera. He figured that his picture had been taken for exceeding the limit, even though he…
January 2013
140Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, January 9, 2013: Federal judge orders trial for Kansas abortion law challenge Military judge: Bradley Manning subjected…
What Happens When The ‘Top’ Educator Plagiarizes?
Probably nothing, if your name is Chris Spence and you are the Director of the Education for the Toronto District School Board. A shocking story in this morning’s Star reveals…
WWII and the idea that stories have a story behind them.
I found the book The Journey that Saved Curious George by Louise Borden at the library, and borrowed it thinking it would be a good way of encouraging the children…
Angry Canadians
Gloria Galloway reports in the Globe and Mail that hope is fading for those who believed Friday’s meeting between native leaders and Stephen Harper would put an end to the…
350.org divest from fossil fuels campaign: 2013 – ‘year zero’
Top: Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein during nationwide ‘Do the Math’ tour Welcome to 2013 – “year zero” in the battle over climate change. After the environmental disasters that marked…
things i heard at the library: an occasional series: # 6
I must preface this post with a statement. If you aren’t a regular wmtc reader, if you’ve stumbled on this post without knowing anything about my views: I am a…
Quebec judges accused of buying drugs
If judges are buying drugs what does that say about the law; what does it say about judges??? Story The Canadian Judicial Council announced Tuesday it is reviewing the conduct…
Ivey School press release
TORONTO – Students looking to spend thousands on post-secondary degrees can now obtain a Richard Ivey School education – where they’ll get to learn principles of Social Credit economics from…
DNA Tracers Could Put End to Fracking Guessing Game On Water Contamination
The oil and gas industry has just been handed an opportunity to walk the walk when it comes to ‘best practices‘ for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking for unconventional gas. BaseTrace…
While the American Empire Prospers, the Nation Becomes a War Zone
There are two Americas: the imagined community called the nation otherwise known as the United States of America to which the vast majority believes to include all American citizens and…
When robotic urinals attack
Last weekend Dr. Maximillian Tundra was lucky enough to go away for the weekend on a roadtrip with his buddies. It was nearly the last thing he ever did. After…
Infographic: equal education, unequal pay
It’s 2012 and close to four years after the Lilly ledbetter Fair Pay Act was signed into law in the United States. Surely, the gender wage gap has been closed,…
Some Numbers
Government spending per capita, Toronto: $24,000.Government spending per capita, Attawapiskat: 11,355. That is all.
Beyond the “clutches of Quebec” #nlpoli
Another perspective on Muskrat Falls, via the Ottawa Citizen, and a previous attempt to run electrical power from Labrador through Nova Scotia: Pickersgill took the matter to the R.B. Bryce,…
Idle No More and the Racist Backlash
As the great rising continues, I see that a Global TV crew has been kicked out of Attawapiskat. A Global News crew was escorted off the Attawapiskat reserve in northern…
Don’t We All Hear Voices? A Mindfulness-Informed View of Schizophrenia and the “Normal” Mind
The hallmark of schizophrenia is perceiving things that are not there. Auditory hallucinations, including “hearing voices”, is particularly common. What if this clinically distinguishing feature of schizophrenia differs from the…