Robots replacing workers in health care
His or her name is Casper. Casper is really an “it.” Casper is also the future we need to start talking about – one where humans get replaced by machines.…
November 2013
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, November 4, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, November 4, 2013: Supreme Court Separates Itself From Nadon Rob Ford crack video: Opinions differ on whether…
Economists: Reduce Time Spent Working
Since roughly the end of the 70s productivity at workplaces has increased yet wages have stagnated (except for the top 1%) meaning that we are relatively worse off than before.…
Toronto needs a mayor: John Tory on Rob Ford, a continuing series
A couple days ago, I posted quotage from John Tory saying that all of us had a “responsibility” to “get onboard” and help Rob Ford. Around the same time, it…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – The CP reports on the latest federal-provincial discussion about pensions. And as is so often the case, all parties at the table seem…
Behold The Conservative Base
On Friday, Gerry Caplan wondered whether the Conservative faithful, meeting in Calgary, would experience a dark night of the soul. They faced at least two significant questions: Which is true:…
Children 404: help fund a film exposing Russia’s crackdown on LGBTQ youth
In the Fall of 2013 a Russian documentary filmmaker contacted numerous LGBTQ activists and filmmakers in Canada and the United States with whom they had worked with in previous years…
Conservative monkeys with machine guns
Last week, it was Stephen Harper going after his much-respected former Chief of Staff. Yesterday, it was Rob Ford going after the cops. Are these Conservative fishing buddies crazy? Well,…
Has the NDP’s Horwath lost control?
It is one thing to argue with your party leader but it is entirely different to have a profanity-laden screaming match with her in the Ontario Legislature. That was what…
Release the Ford video?
Yesterday Rob Ford demanded the police release the video. They can't. The video is evidence before the Courts and cannot be released (indeed, arguably the video should not even have…
Poor career decisions
The alien on the right is thinking: “My agent is so fired.” The one on the left? He’s just experimenting with his knobs. Alltop loves a good knob experiment!
Debt and Deficit as Shock Therapy » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Debt and Deficit as Shock Therapy » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names. When Naomi Klein published her ground-breaking book The Shock Doctrine (2007), which compellingly demonstrated how neoliberal…
Announce it forward #nlpoli
November is polling month in Newfoundland and Labrador. Corporate Research Associates goes to the field for its quarterly omnibus and marketing poll. Historically, the Conservatives have skewed their public communications…
What the heck is a complementarist?
What the heck is a complementarist? Well I will tell you. I was forced to look this up when I noticed that some of the traffic to my blog was…
Rising Tory interest in St. Albert-Edmonton nomination could set the stage for something completely different!
Ryan Hastman’s business card, handed out at last weekend’s Conservative Convention in Calgary. Below: Mr. Hastman, Independent MP Brent Rathgeber, competing Tory candidate Michael Cooper and the other side of…
Andrew Coyne’s (must read) Analysis Of The Conservative Party Convention: ‘More Cult Than Political Party’???
Columnist Andrew Coyne nails it with his analysis of this past weekend’s Conservative Party of Canada National Convention in Calgary. Is this a political party or a cult?“Thus the Conservative…
Pamela Wallin Visits Corner Gas -Video
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Satire is often better than a rest. This video seen on Laila Yuile’s – No Strings Attached was sent to me and it is well, a laugh…
Asian carp capable of breeding in Great Lakes: USGS scientists
Captured grass carp at Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans research lab in Burlington, ON (Andrew Reeves) Anyone doubting whether Asian carp could successfully breed in the Great Lakes watershed got…