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Revolutionary thought of the day: …something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
December 2013
Stop service cuts at Canada Post
Please consider signing this Canada Post support statement by clicking HERE. Instead of looking for ways to modernize operations, Canada Post and the Conservatives are taking an axe to long-treasured…
CPP reform rhetoric
Since there is a significant meeting among Canadian finance ministers today, where reform to the Canada Pension Plan is on the agenda, it’s worth pointing out some really unhelpful ongoing…
In This Season Of Getting And Spending
… a timely reminder about the practices of the world’s biggest retailer: This article is also worthy of perusal. Recommend this Post
Not Politics, Just Pastry Today
Or maybe just food. I spent the morning making making 10 dozen spritz butter cookies and cutting up 30 salt herring to put in marinade for pickled herring. Yesterday it…
Review: Unmastered
This book is a meditation by an English academic on gender, power, and desire that I find intriguing in certain respects and troubling in others. First, the good stuff. I…
Are conservatives freaking crazy?
Something just ain’t right with the right. Rob Ford hangs out with gangsters, indulges in drunken stupors and smokes crack, but the way some conservatives see it, it’s not his…
New "Frackademia" Report Co-Written by "Converted Climate Skeptic" Richard Muller
The conservative UK-based Centre for Policy Studies recently published a study on the climate change impacts of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) for shale gas. The skinny: it’s yet another case study…
Canada’s laws should be equipped to deal with 21st century mass surveillance technologies
Between a rock and a hard place. That’s how these experts describe the state of Canada’s communications data. Article by Lisa M. Austin, Heather Black, Michael Geist, Avner Levin, and…
Industry seeks right to release water from oilsands tailings ponds
Syncrude tailings pond (photo: David Dodge, Pembina Institute) EDMONTON – Oilsands producers are talking with the federal and Alberta governments about conditions under which water from the industry’s tailings ponds…
Technology Is Opening A New Era Of Ethics
Whether it is the accumulation of data about your life on Facebook, your online professional profile on LinkedIn, or the location tracking features of your cellphone, there has never been…
Dec. 16: It starts on p. 1….
..where a story (which is otherwise a good one) carries the headline “Bird counts tally species” which means, roughly, bird counts count birds. (Note that headlines are NOT written by…
The Secret Weapon: Self-Esteem
It’s Monday. Have you contributed positively to a young girl’s self esteem yet today? If not, here is some inspiration and a place to get better resourced! “As a child,…
Legislating a real raise: Minimum wages and real earnings growth
In a recent post titled, “What happened to the distribution of real earnings during the recession?”, Stephen Gordon presents a graphs that shows some significant growth in real (adjust for…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, December 16, 2013
Your news links for today: Bell’s discounting of mobile TV against the rules, complaint claims (CBC) “4K streaming will prove taxing on broadband networks, especially in Canada where usage caps…
A Celebrity Visit…and What Happened Next!
Who doesn’t love to meet a celebrity? There’s something glittery, larger than life and romantic about getting up-close and personal with someone who is famous. Nicholas is a die-hard sports…
McPunk
I have long called McDonald’s Corporate Death Burger (h/t MDC). I also refer to a Big Mac as a “Stomach Bomb.” The first libel action against me (at age sixteen,…
Rosie DiManno, the quintessential blogger.
Having never been a fan of Rosie DiManno, this is by way of apology. She deserves a further read. This is because of today’s epic by Rosie that so scathingly…
A Couple Of Polls On CDN Pipelines
From Forum, so FWIW: A bit surprising, or at least other polls in B.C. have shown support for NG drifting upward. And, nterestingly enough, opposition to the Keystone XL line…