The Trans-Pacific Partnership to police your Internet.
Check out this video about the threats the extreme and secretive TPP trade agreement would present against your use of the Internet. Among them? Decisions made in the TPP negotiations…
2013
Last Call for Tony Blair
I’m gonna miss the New Democratic Party and, by the sounds of it, I’ll be missing it more than they will. At least Tommy didn’t live to see it. It…
Backgrounds and Behaviors of MOOC Participants and Implications for Faculty
Summar of a presentation by Lori Breslow (MIT), Jennifer DeBoer (MIT), Andrew Ho (Harvard)(Andrew) Although open sources and online teaching is not new in a passive way, open learning as…
Bomb Girls
Wife made me watch this the other night. It is a show that is quintessentially Canadian, in that only Canuck screenwriters can pen dialogue this wooden. That is all.
Kim Jong Un Threats for Nuclear War
Is Kim Jong Un crazy or what? If he attacks South Korea or U.S hell may broke loose. Despite U.S’s problems (which are too many) it has nuclear capabilities that…
Tune In To Spring of Sustainability, For Operating Instructions From Planet Earth
It’s April, and in some places in North America it is spring. Not outside my window this morning, though, where the snow is lightly falling for the second day in…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – John Greenwood and CBC News both report on the offshore tax avoidance being revealed through the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. And…
LDC’s Are Closing In On Us
It seems they’ve called our bluff. “We” are the First World, the developed countries, the big producers and consumers of fossil fuels, the big emitters. We are also the rich…
Calico. Sleeping. On the couch. Again. Will this ever stop?
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Cat with eyeglasses 2
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New column day
Here, on how the CFIA’s inability to do anything about tainted horse meat exemplifies the problems with weak and under-resourced regulators. For further reading…– Again, Mary Ormsby’s original story is…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, April 4, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, April 4, 2013: Proposed Amendment To Password Protection Act Would Allow Employers To Demand Facebook Passwords when…
Australia Can Make Easy Transition to Renewable Energy
Presently, 10% of Australia’s electricity is produced from a renewable resource, and that number can grow easily with minor adjustments to federal policy. By cutting back subsidies for the oil…
April 4: looking for an important story….
….but it wasn’t there. The confiscation of bank accounts at the Bank of Cyprus is developing as a much bigger story than it might seem. So, of course, I checked…
April 4, 1968
As I have done for years – and as I have remembered since that day, when I was a boy in Dallas – today I remember the death of Martin…
Rappin’ with Atwood and Moore
My Twitter feed has been fun the last few days, including an exchange with one of my favorite authors, and a literary legend. I was also surprised to discover that…
Welcome to the secret world capitalist conspiracy
David Brin posts on Google+ about the millions of files cracked to reveal over 100,000 secret bank accounts. This link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/03/offshore-companies-politicians_n_3008426.html Tony Merchant, one of Canada’s top class-action lawyers, took…