An Adjunct Tragedy | The Nation
An Adjunct Tragedy | The Nation. The proletarianization of higher education, according to the associate general counsel of the United Steel Workers Union, has now claimed a life. In a…
2013
On Panitch & Gindin and American decline
Reblogged from LBO News from Doug Henwood: These are comments I delivered at a panel on The Making of Global Capitalism, by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, at the Rethinking…
Swimming with Vivaldi
Today, for an hour, I swam with Vivaldi. Not the actual composer, of course. He died in 1741 at the age of 63. Would have made a mess of the…
Live cams bring Great Bear Rainforest’s wolves, sea lions to you
Ian McAllister/Pacific Wild A BC-based conservation group is taking the popular concept of nature cameras to a whole new level. This week, Pacific Wild launched a pair of 24-hour, live…
Credit Poor Marksmanship and Sheer Luck
A mass shooting in Chicago has left 13-wounded but, so far, no dead. The fusillade was attributed to gang violence and many of the wounded were gang members. Police say…
John Tory says PC “right-to-work” policy scaring voters
Former Ontario PC Leader John Tory says his successor should take “the right to work stuff and get rid of it.” Speaking last night on TVO’s The Agenda, Tory says…
Weaver Slams Christy Clark’s Gassy Pipedream
Green Party MLA and professor, Andrew Weaver, says B.C. premier Christy Clark’s vision of a future economy padded by immense wealth from liquified natural gas exports is a fantasy. “I…
Pope Francis Has His Work Cut Out For Him
As The Disaffected Lib pointed out yesterday, Pope Francis seems to be making a real effort to bring a new tone and substance to the Church. However, if you watch…
In League With the Devil. How the NSA is Giving Organized Crime a Cyber-Leg Up
It was all done in the name of national security and who can argue with that? Certainly not organized crime. From The Economist: Many cryptographic systems in use on the…
This Graphic Says It All About Keystone XL Web of Deceit
Friends of the Earth-U.S. (FOE) and 350.org have jointly unveiled an easily sharable graphic depicting the web of deceit surrounding the environmental review for the northern half of Transcanada’s Keystone…
Connecting with Rural Voters
When I used to run a heavy equipment leasing company, we did a lot of business in Northern Alberta. There was one small town north of Edmonton that I spent…
PTSD: Transitions Are Weighty
Kate MacEachern and The Long Way Home Post by The Long Way Home. There is a kind of trauma when people leave chapters in their life: graduating, retiring, marriage, childbirth,…
You’re making progress, Francis
After two doctrinaire popes, it’s a pleasure to have one who puts mercy ahead of dogma as Pope Francis did this week. In an interview with La Civilta Cattolica, the…
CBC News: It’s a start! Bell reduces roaming fees to U.S. by half
LET’S KEEP GOING CANADA! You raised your voice and pushed policy makers to create a new wireless rules – and now we’re starting to see some results. Earlier this week,…
Throwing Down the Gauntlet – "Rational" People Will Be Convinced By the Science – IPCC
There are encouraging signs that, this time, climate scientists are coming prepared for a fight against the forces of denialism. You can tell the Fossil Fuelers and the rest of…
Paging Dr. Freud…
Logged on to desktop-Facebook recently. Was greeted by these ads. They were… disturbing. I don’t even want to know what photos they used for the female or gay audience! Perhaps…
Daily Digital Digest for Friday 20 September 2013
Here are your daily news links: Rogers Tries to Distance Itself From Spectrum Battle But It Can’t Run From its Record (Michael Geist) Sprint, T-Mobile join Verizon in snub of…
Russians storm Greenpeace ship with 2 Canadians, tow to port
Greenpeace activists attempt to scale a Russian arctic drilling rig (photo: Greenpeace) The Russian Coast Guard says a Greenpeace ship it stormed, with two Canadian activists among people they are…
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