Button collection!
In lieu of posting actual content, check out my button collection! Been actively collecting them since the 2006 federal leadership, my oldest button is a Harry Jackman for Rosedale button,…
March 2014
Canada Land: How Canada’s Spies Game the Media
Ever wonder what it must be like to be an investigative journalist covering an ultra-secretive government institution? The Globe’s Colin Freeze talks about his frustrations covering spy agency CSEC. Video…
March 25:
I’m starting this on the evening of March 24 while a few ideas are buzzing through my head. A few days ago 5 members of parliament of a certain country…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Your news links for today: Why the U.S. Government Isn’t Really Relinquishing its Power over Internet Governance – Michael Geist AT&T promises to lower your Internet bill if FCC kills…
Get up. You’re embarassing me.
March is Women’s History Month (in the US). This is a series of posts about important women. Do you have a friend who’s been part of your life for as…
John Tory: Happy International Waffle Day!
I’m serious. It exists. It’s today. John Tory, this day’s for you! .
PC Party opts for a short and expensive leadership campaign
TweetIn 2006, it was $15,000, in 2011, it was $40,000, and in 2011, the fee to become a candidate in the Progressive Conservative leadership race is $50,000. Senior officials from…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Paul Krugman expands on the Republicans’ insistence on privileging inherited wealth over individual work: (N)ot only don’t most Americans own businesses, but…
UN panel warns about climate change
A Polar Bear walks on the frozen tundra next to Hudson Bay ahead of the freeze-over 12 November 2007 outside Churchill, Mantioba, Canada. | PAUL J. RICHARDS via Getty Images…
John Tory On The Island Airport: I Choose "Maybe"!
The report, which was issued by city staff and set to be debated today, contains dozens of unanswered issues which need to be dealt with. Until there are answers to…
On a play date with the Hair in Holland.
The Hair and friends are not going to let that kid Vladimir play in the G8 sandbox this time. The newly described G7 are meeting in The Hague this week…
Majority of Canadians Oppose Harper’s “Unfair Elections Act”: POLL
by: Council of Canadians | Press Release A new poll released today shows that a majority of Canadians oppose central features of the so-called “Fair” Elections Act, known as Bill…
Will wonders never cease? #nlpoli
As it turned out, the “robust” oversight of the Muskrat Falls project that everyone was making a big deal about a few weeks ago is – as your humble e-scribbler…
Five reasons we don’t need jets on Toronto’s waterfront
“Whisper jets” is the biggest oxymoron since “airline food” Jets belong at Pearson, where they can keep company with the other jets The waterfront is a mess as it is…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, March 25, 2014: 4 arrested in 1WTC jump Obama to Propose Legislation Ending NSA Bulk Records Collection…
Harper’s Empathy Deficit
It’s no secret that Stephen Harper lacks people skills. What he really lacks, Tasha Kheiriddin writes, is empathy: But Harper displays little understanding of human emotions. And that’s where his…
Who do you complain to? New regulation expands complaints process but also adds confusion
Making a complaint within a health care setting has always been a delicate process. It used to be in home care the terms of your service suggested that if you…
A Lesson In Language
With my flooring project continuing at a pace commensurate with my rudimentary skills, I will likely devote much of the day working on the second room, the first finally completed…
The First Birds of Spring, and Moas
Most years the first red-winged blackbirds show up by the end of March around here. Usually there is open water at the edge of swamps, ponds, streams. Many times we’ve…