Urban Studies, 50 years + A New Publication
Urban Studies just marked 50 years as one of the top journals in the field. To celebrate they’ve launched a new blog along with a free digital issue compiling their…
August 2013
Chris Hayes: On global warming – an upcomming documentary
Chris Hayes is a very well informed gentleman. I watch his program “All In” on MSNBC whenever I get a chance. His program provides critical analysis of U.S politics and…
The David outside the Uffizzi
Filed under: art
"Who put this dick on my back?"
Sophomoric I know, but anytime CNBC gets punked is a good time to me.
What’s with the turnover at the PMO?
Reading Andrew MacDougall’s farewell to the turnstile at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) yesterday, you have to be puzzled. You wonder that, after the experience of serving Prime Minister Harper…
Palma Violets last week in LA
…with some old fart who somehow made it onstage. Hard to believe it was just last week. Pix by Debi Del Grande. LA Music Blog review, here (a “subtle gem”!…
North Korea: Interesting pictures
Every summer the North Koreans hold the Arirang games, or “mass games,” where perhaps as many as 100,000 performers dance and do gymnastics to a patriotic theme. The real stars…
New column day
Here, on the tendency of both political decision-makers and the general public to give too much credence to secret information – and the need for citizens to scrutinize leaders all…
Coal Industry Waging War Against EPA
After playing the victims of an allegedly unfair, and completely fabricated, “war on coal,” the coal industry has gone on the offensive by launching their own war on federal regulators.…
Bicycle Commuters Save Economy $21 on Each Commute
Australian research has led to the conclusion that bicycle commuters are great for the economy! Every time a commuter chooses to ride a bicycle instead of a car or public…
Why I starting blogging again
Five years ago or so, I was a pretty keen blogger. Then I started working in social media and marketing and after spending my energies on the efforts of others,…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, August 15, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, August 15, 2013: Harassed employee’s work refusal illegal: court Bradley Manning apologizes for hurting U.S California Supreme…
13,105
…that’s how many followers I now have on Twitter. Just noticed. Justin Trudeau, watch out! I’m in your social media rear view mirror, pal!
The Dark Side Of Evangelicalism
While I periodically enjoy making sport of what I sometimes refer to as crazy old evangelicals (a distinction I make out of respect to the sincere and well-intentioned ones) and…
The Poor Pick Up The Tab
The bill for Stephen Harper’s Wonderful World of Austerity is coming due. Nick Fillmore writes in The Tyee: The austerity program and other government cuts have had disastrous consequences for…
sports without war: canada out of aghanistan, and military out of our sports
I have written a bit about the use of professional sports as a vehicle for war propaganda and militarism, such as when the Harper Government used the Olympic torch relay…
Time to re-think dam costs #nlpoli #nspoli
They call it Site C. No, it isn’t a sequel to Jurassic Park or The Lost World. Site C is a 900 megawatt hydroelectric dam project in British Columbia that…
The Line 9 Reversal
The chap from Blast Furnace Canada has a carefully reasoned take on what’s at issue with the “Line 9 Reversal”–the plan to bring diluted bitumen from Alta/Sask’s tar-sands to refineries…
A sad and costly police problem
Last Sunday, a large group of family, friends and associates gathered and paid tribute to Pierre Lemaitre, an officer who once was the RCMP’s senior media relations officer in British…