Work – Life Balance: Is It Attainable?
by Ann Barrow Stephen Mabey’s “Work-life balance up to lawyers, not firms” Distressing, frustrating, discouraging? Lawyers are deemed to have real choice in the matter of achieving balance in their…
June 2014
I Voted
Please vote today if you’re in Ontario.
What do you think about Big Telecom blocking access to content and services in Canada?
For a long time now, Canadians have been getting the short end of the stick when it comes to accessing exciting, affordable, and innovative Internet and mobile phone services. Without…
All By Myself – In An Airport
Here’s a very clever music video made by a Dion fan, in Vegas airport. There is some smart use of the moving sidewalk, and escalator, along with some nice video…
What to watch for tonight.
Polls close at 9pm. At 9:10 we should start to see the first results.By 9:25 we should have enough early results to get a good picture of what is going…
Updates: Ricochet, Piketty Forum and more coming soon
I’m in the midst of a spell of travel and other work that’s been keeping me away from posting new content here. Another week or two and I should be…
Tesla Motors open-sources it’s patents
Tesla Motors today announced that all patents that it owns are now open-sourced and in the public domain. In a blog post titled ‘All Our Patent Are Belong To You’…
Woodfibre LNG: Public comment period begins for Squamish project
Citizens recently lined the highway outside Squamish to oppose Woodfibre LNG (My Sea to Sky) The BC Environmental Assessment Office is now open for public comment on the proposed Woodfibre…
June 12: Enough
A newspaper should reveal the extent of a society’s sorrow. And it should express its own – in opinion columns. But there is a point at which working on emotions…
Chippewas of the Thames First Nation Granted Leave By Federal Court to Appeal Line 9 Approval
Yesterday (June 11th) the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal granted the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation leave to take their challenge of the Line 9 pipeline decision to court.…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, June 12, 2014
Your news links for today: A Crisis of Accountability — The Canadian Situation – Technology, Thoughts & Trinkets Trudeau’s ‘Transparency Act’ aims to force government openness – CTV News Predators…
Who Needs $80 Billion? Starve Us Some More!
For years Stephen Harper often seemed at war with his own government, so consistently critical were reviews by its various independent oversight agencies. It seems that at least one “independent”…
Why Do We Vote?
In a democracy there are almost as many reasons to vote as their are voters. Some vote out a sense of civic obligation, others vote so they can still feel…
New column day
Here, on how the City of Regina has taken a first step – but only that so far – in making sure that new development doesn’t result in the perpetual…
Tories can’t add — Hudak way off on LHIN savings
Somebody please go to the buck store and get PC leader Tim Hudak a calculator. We previously reported that the Tories long-standing pledge to eliminate the Local Health Integration Networks…
Australian MP George Christensen Heading To Las Vegas For Heartland Institute Climate Denial Conference
AN Australian Federal MP is planning to join some of the world’s noisiest deniers of the science of climate change at a conference in Las Vegas in a few weeks…
Cat seriously stretched out on a couch
Filed under: art Tagged: Cat
Vote. It’s easy.
Just do it. As I was explaining to my two youngest kids yesterday on the drive home after school, literally millions of people have died and are dying to do…
Did you show your voting license?
Tomorrow, we can bemoan the poor turnout of voters. This Ontario election election will only serve to prove it is getting worse. Too many people have disconnected from the basics…