Two Headed Boy, Part Two
Jeff Mangum, the Salinger of rock’n’roll, is in TeeDot tonight and last night with his Neutral Milk Hotel, totally sold-out. For a guy with so little output – and almost…
January 2014
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, January 20, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, January 20, 2014: Driver ticketed for Google Glass acquitted, but ‘the fun is just starting,’ legal expert…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Graeme Wearden reports on Oxfam’s latest study on inequality and the outsized political influence of the wealthy few: The Oxfam report found that…
The Short and the Tall of It
This past week saw several new experiments in my bread laboratory. Okay, it’s a kitchen, but sometimes it feels like a lab, what with all the tinkering and testing I…
Fundamentally Wrong
Stephen Harper, we are told, has received a rock star welcome in Israel. Leaving aside for the moment the diversion it creates from scandal at home, one should be very…
More Thoughts On The Minimum Wage
Although I have written several previous posts on the need to substantially increase the minimum wage so that it becomes a living wage, I have been planning an update. However,…
watch how much this community loves its library
15,000 people in Latvia form a human chain to transfer books from their old, falling-apart library to their beautiful new home.
Québéc’s PQ feeds on bigotry.
The Québéc government’s Charter of Values proposal is earning the province ridicule. Premier Pauline Marois and her Parti Québécois government think it will make francophones in the province hunker down…
Your Daily Nazi: Did Harper Israel Trip Participant Help Arrange Meetup With English Neo-Nazis?
David Akin has published a list of the folks accompanying PM Stephen Harper to Israel. As Hardy notes in the comments here, one the people on the list is Julius…
Terry Paddon’s Report #nlpoli
If you want to understand what the provincial government’s audited financial statements really mean, you will have to skip Tom Marshall’s comments last week and look instead at the lengthy…
Stephen Harper and the Bromance From Hell
When I saw this picture published tonight by the Con Ministry of Propaganda and Disinformation, I have to admit I was conflicted eh? On the one hand I despise both…
Open Data Day Google+ Hang Out
With just about a month to go until Open Data Day things are going well. There are quite a few cities that have been added to the open data day…
Your cute overload for today
A small dog plowing through snow – YouTube: ““ ‘via Blog this’
It’s time to recognize the market-fundamentalist elephant in the airport security screening room
Some of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority’s sub-contracted passenger screening supervisors at Edmonton International Airport. Fortunately for them, theirs won’t be the heads that roll. Below: Skylar Murphy, the…
Rally Against the Pickering Airport ( #NoPickeringAirport #cdnpoli #onpoli )
On January 27th, a rally will be held at Pickering City Hall in support of a municipal motion demanding the federal government act with transparency as it pertains to the…
Courage, Neil Young, And The Future
Neil Young doesn’t have to do what he is doing, there are many, many reasons why he shouldn’t, but he is, and he is showing us courage that most of…
West Virginia Polluter Freedom Industries Files For Bankruptcy To Halt Lawsuits
Freedom Industries, the company that recently leaked thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals into the Elk River in West Virginia, quietly filed for bankruptcy this past Friday to shield themselves…
Wanker of the Week: Jim Cuddy.
Jim Cuddy, from the Canadian band Blue Rodeo, called Young’s comparison of the oilsands with Hiroshima extreme. “He’s grossly exaggerating,” Cuddy was reported saying of Young’s comparison of Alberta’s oilsands…