It’s Called "Virtual Water"
Water-stressed Israel realized this year ago when it recognized that its exports of Jaffa oranges were really exporting “virtual water.” It took scarce water to grow the orange and when…
September 2014
CCPA Monitor: The battle for the Internet and what it means for Canada
This piece was co-authored by Steve Anderson and David Christopher and was originally published in the September edition of the CCPA Monitor Five commissioners on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission…
Pentagon Exploits Tensions Over Ukraine, Pushes for Multi-Purpose Sensor Chain Across Canada’s Arctic
Arrest that Man, He’s From Russia! They sure know how to pick their opportunities. At the very moment NATO leaders are in Wales fretting over what to do with Vlad…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, September 2, 2014
Your news links for today: Why U.S. Pressure Is Behind the Stalled Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Bill – Michael Geist Net neutrality activists are about to show you what an Internet ‘slow…
NATO Leaders Huddle and Fume While Putin Chuckles
NATO’s Drang Nach Osten There’ll be an absolute glut of righteous indignation when NATO leaders convene this week in Wales to decide whatever to do with that big bad bully,…
Field of Dreams: Peace Valley Farmers, Ranchers Fight to Keep Land Above Water As Site C Dam Decision Looms
In 1920, Renee Ardill’s grandparents arrived in the Peace Valley with nothing more than a milk cow, saddle horse and team and wagon. They chose a piece of land on…
Field of Dreams: Peace Valley Farmers, Ranchers Fight to Keep Land Above Water As Site C Dam Decision Looms
In 1920, Renee Ardill’s grandparents arrived in the Peace Valley with nothing more than a milk cow, saddle horse and team and wagon. They chose a piece of land on…
Mr. Prime Minister, One of These Is Almost Exactly Like the Other
– Steve Bell, The Guardian
Sometimes In Life, It’s the Little Things That Matter
It’s really a little thing. A little worse. A little more frequent. A little longer lasting. A little more severe. A little more damaging. That’s the face of early onset…
It’s been nine long years
Not really. Not really long years. Nine ridiculously short years. Nine years that feels like days. Nine years that passed in the blink of an eye. Your brother was in…
Feed’Em or Weep
They’re finally figuring it out. An editorial from The Dallas Morning News warns that unless the US launches a major food relief effort to Central America, the country faces a…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, September 2, 2014: The Canada Revenue Agency doubles down CRA audited left-wing think-tank because its research shows…
Exposed: Lawson’s Climate Denial Donors’ Links to Tobacco and Oil Backed Think Tank
Launch of new Global Warming Policy Forum mired by new revelations linking former chancellor to oil and tobacco-funded climate denial think tank Lord Lawson faces increasing scepticism about the independence…
Common Sense
When men yield up the exclusive privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. Thomas Paine, 18th century political activist and political philosopher, wrote that line. It…
The Well Heeled Terrorist
http://abcnews.go.com/ The conventional wisdom holds that violence and terrorism is the inevitable consequence of poverty and ignorance. Cass Sunstein, who teaches law at Harvard, writes that the evidence suggests something…
A New Season Beckons, But Nothing Changes
Many people think of September as the real beginning of the new year: kids go off to school, summer transitions to fall, fall fashions appear in the stores, and new…
You Should Replace Should With Could
Some new research hints that you should change how you think about issues and what to do. Often we think about things we should do and what we ought to…
Morning Line for Toronto: Chow at 6 – 1.
Olivia Chow has become something of a long shot in Toronto’s 2014 mayoralty contest. After a strong campaign launch in the spring, it has become clear to the media and…
what i do, what i miss, and what are they thinking: answers to the question, "what do you do?"
When we moved to Canada (nine years plus a few days ago), I wondered what, if anything, I would miss about the US. Who would have guessed it would be…