Some Recent MOOCs (March-April, 2013)
These are based on emails sent to me announcing recen MOOCs. It’s a bit hard to keep up, but I’ve posted what I can here (mostly copied and pasted from…
March 2013
“Just watch me”: Justin Trudeau on whether he can beat Stephen Harper
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Liberal leadership front-runner Justin Trudeau wants you to be assured that he can beat Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the ballot. During a…
Research Reveals Almost All Climate Science Denial Books Linked To Conservative Think Tanks
IF you haven’t seen them on the television or come across their interviews on the radio or in newspapers and magazines, then you’ve almost certainly seen their work as your…
Transportation: Where to go, and how to get there in #YQR
– Most of my speech as heard in the video above, and posted to my Regina politics blog: I’m very pleased to have been asked to speak at Campion College…
Canadians’ top 3 complaints about the cell phone market are … [drum roll, please]
The top 3 grievances Canadians have with the cell phone market are: price-gouging, restrictive contracts, and disrespectful customer service. Clearly it’s time to fix our broken telecom market, and we…
Federal Budget 2013 Must Focus on Job Creation, Not Cutbacks, CAW Says
By: Canadian Auto Workers Union | Press Release TORONTO – The CAW is calling on federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty to focus on job creation, not more spending cutbacks in…
Autism Now 1 in 50? Round Up the Usual Suspects AGAIN
From last years increase of autism prevalence rates from 1 in 110 to 1 in 88 a new report, based on parental reporting now indicates a rate of 1 in…
Can reason and secularism protect kids from anti-science rhetoric (and build a better society)?
When it comes to teaching my kids about the world, I never assumed science would be a top priority. Yet these days I find myself spending little time focusing on…
What we missed: Federal Court upholds rights tribunal decision on family status accommodation
By: Public Service Alliance of Canada | Press Release OTTAWA – The Federal Court has upheld a decision by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal saying that employers cannot discriminate against…
"Just Watch Me" (cross a picket line) – Justin Trudeau
For the record, Justin Trudeau confirmed on Twitter that when he signed this note to another passenger, he was flying back from Halifax on Porter Airlines — where the workers…
TransCanada Pipelines Whistleblower Receives National Award
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive A former TransCanada Corporation employee who blew the whistle on the rising pipeline incidents and rule-breaking by Big Oil has been chosen as…
Dancing with interest rates
Flaherty’s latest “intervention” further confirms that Canada’s fiscal situation is far from that that has been described and repeated like a broken record for Canadians and is actually much closer…
Thomas Mulcair’s Keystone tap dance.
I’m taking some perverse pleasure in watching NDP leader Thomas Mulcair try to finesse the Keystone XL pipeline issue. Not too long ago — in fact, anytime before the 2011…
The Face of Integrity
With a transcript of the extended interview. H/t Alex Himelfarb Recommend this Post
Michele Bachman Speech at CPAC
She talks about Tea Party.
TVO funding in the 2012 Ontario Budget
Dalton McGuinty’s last budget used soothing language, but the intent was clear: TVO and the quality programs it produces are coming under the knife of funding cuts.
Ce qui s’en vient / Things to come
CBC President Hubert Lacroix says CBC needs ads on radio or else there will be cuts and format changes to Radio Two and Espace musique.
We Miss You Roy . . .
This anniversary of the death of my ol’ dad seems to have arrived and passed in a strange, dreamlike state. As the time passes it seems more and more unreal…
Pre-hearing conferences in criminal cases
R. v. Nguyen, 2013 ONCA 169 discusses pre-hearing conferences in criminal matters : Pre-Hearing Conferences and their Use Section 625.1(1) of the Criminal Code authorizes pre-hearing conferences to be held…