Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, July 21, 2014
Your news links for today: Come Back With a Warrant: How Will the Canadian Government Respond to the Supreme Court’s Reshaping of Privacy Law? – Michael Geist Security Backdoors and…
July 2014
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Paul Krugman calls out the U.S.’ deficit scolds for continuing to invent a crisis to distract from the real problems with middling growth…
Think That Mass Spying Doesn’t Affect You?
Go Read. It is not just the spying, but the records and how they are shared which is the real problem. The Harper Government wants people to be afraid. If…
Shaving Minutes Off Your Cycling Time
Or, In Praise of Crappy Bikes I’m in the middle of several books right now, and I’ll write more about them as I finish. But I was thinking about this…
Deficit? Public spending ain’t the cause. Revenue, however…
With the election over, pressure to cut public programs has become quite intense. In almost all of the corporate owned media someone is barking on about it. Another option —…
Please read this powerful letter by Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian medical doctor who is in Gaza
Please read and share this powerful letter by Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian medical doctor who is in Gaza right now: Dearest friends, The last night was extreme. The “ground invasion”…
Sabotaging Responsible Government
www.nationalpost.com/ Over at ipolitics, Andrew Mitrovica asks,”Is Mulcair just another Harper with a beard?” It’s an important question, given the evolution — some would say devolution — of the New…
Are bloggers lower than politicians?
There is an interesting facial reaction when you tell people you write a blog. Maybe the thing around the eyes is pity, at first. They then ask what you blog…
John Tory’s Nick Kouvalis approves this flea-bitten message
Tory’s top campaign guy is Nick Kouvalis. Nick gets paid lots of money by Tory, who has taken on on more and more a prominent role in the mayoralty candidate’s…
Richard Dawkins Says "Mild Pedophilia" Does No Harm
Scientist and atheist campaigner, Richard Dawkins, says it was “no harm, no foul” when a school master pulled young Dawkins onto his lap, shoved his hands down the boy’s pants…
Traitors Everywhere #nlpoli
Tony Collins loves Muskrat Falls. He loves it so much that every now and again he takes the valuable space from his column in the weekend Telegram and lets loose…
Owner of Racist Hungarian Website Avoids Arrest in US: Believed in Canada
First, a little editorializing. Our friends at Dawg’s Blawg have been on the story Hungarian Roma for some time now. If you aren’t aware of what is going on, you…
Hamas is not a terrorist organization
It seems that the media and politicians can hardly mention Hamas, much in the news these days, without referring to it as a terrorist organization. And indeed a number of…
Alberta oil sands not welcome in South Portland, Maine
TweetWhat’s going on in South Portland, Maine? Elected officials in the port city are on the verge of banning crude oil from Canada’s tar sands from entering their port. With…
Canada’s anti-union lobby is at the heart of the deceptive campaign for more Temporary Foreign Workers – why’s that, d’ya think?
Canadians need not apply? Actual Canadian store displays may not appear exactly as illustrated. But the intent of the AstroTurf TFW lobby is to bust unions and weaken the bargaining…
Dear John: not bad
Nearly 13,000 words in less than a month, Daughter was in opening ceremonies at North American Indigenous Games, sons again tore up the links in a golf tournament – and…
House Bars NSA From Meddling With Encryption Standards
The U.S. House of Representatives last month inserted into a defense appropriations bill a measure barring the National Security Agency from meddling with encryption standards. The post House Bars NSA…
Can you picture Rob Ford or John Tory doing this?
Me neither. Does such stuff matter, you ask? In my experience, yes. .
July? Must be the silly season in Vancouver politics
Being an election year, this summer is a lot more political than usual. In non-election years the local press often has difficulty finding stories of interest on the civic scene.…