Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Your news links for today: Should you worry about social media surveillance? – CBC Radio This Is What Your Face Looks Like to Facebook – Medium Yet another advocate for…
December 2014
Electoral reform: Which party would benefit most?
Satire inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/electoral-reform-which-party-would-benefit-most-1.2857321
A Look Into the Ig Nobel Awards
The Ig Nobel Prize is dedicated to science that makes you laugh then makes you think. It’s a fun and great way to get people engaged in science while exploring…
“People are going to die”
First Nations Financial Transparency Act: Watch Pam Palmater put the Canadian Taxpayers Federation in its place. “We don’t even have enough money to have websites, how the heck are we…
Poland makes history by electing its first openly gay mayor, Robert Biedron
Poland makes history by electing its first openly gay mayor Wonderful news! Gay rights campaigner Robert Biedron has pledged to ditch the limos and ride a bike 01 December 2014|…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: California’s first ‘revenge porn’ conviction sends man to jail for topless photos of his ex Rob Ford’s tenure over:…
Tax Fairness
http://occupynatick.org/ The Robert Reich documentary, Inequality For All explains with remarkable clarity what has happened in the United States over the last forty years and in Canada over the last…
Tax Fairness
http://occupynatick.org/ The Robert Reich documentary, Inequality For All explains with remarkable clarity what has happened in the United States over the last forty years and in Canada over the last…
The Hair helps with bigger bribes.
We are supposed to appreciate how the Hair helped Michaëlle Jean become the new head of the la Francophonie. While not outwardly supporting Canada’s former governor general, the Hair reminded…
Stephen Harper’s Sad and Desperate Return to Parliament
Well after spending most of the past month travelling around the world, hopping from one photo-op to another, Stephen Harper finally returned to Parliament yesterday.And as you can see from…
Hey Prentice here is a sophism to help you out
Filed under: Cartoons (Single Panel), Environment, Making fun of Conservatives, Making fun of Harper
EPortfolios and Badges Workshop – #OEB14
E-Portfolio Workshop, Online Educa Berlin: These are content summaries; if written in the first person it is the speaker speaking, not me. Some comments in parentheses are my own. Launch…
Just do the math: Wiseman confirms Muskrat Falls cost at $7.3 billion #nlpoli
Twitter sometimes produces some gems. Like on Tuesday when Tom Baird, a mathematics professor at Memorial pointed out that the province’s finance minister had a wee bit of a problem…
Who Is Surprised That Jason Kenney Should Jump Into the Gutter?
Well you all know the sordid story. How Jason Kenney used a tape secretly recorded by the sinister Con operative Alexandra Constantinidis, to go after Marlo Raynolds, a Liberal candidate…
The Kochtopus Spreads its Tentacles To Strangle Climate Science
DeSmog UK tells the story of how the ideologically matched and politically inseparable Blundell and Dr Fred Singer became close and controversial allies, in our epic history series. One evening…
Bill 10 gong show’s bungled effort to pander to PC Party’s worst elements proves Jim Prentice is no political superman
Alberta Premier Jim Prentice, as he appeared to almost everyone until yesterday, except there are no ships here in Alberta, which is why we need all those pipelines. Below: Education…
Suddenly, Japan.
Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe has surprised even his own voting public by calling a sudden snap election. Fortunately, this was one of the two countries that had not yet…
Coal Giant Peabody Energy Denies Social Media Poverty Campaign Is Bogus
On the fringes of Brisbane’s G20 summit inside the Queensland capital’s grand city hall, Peabody Energy president Glenn Kellow made a remarkable claim. Almost half a million people in countries…
What needs to happen to save and rebuild the CBC
The CBC, and particularly CBC Radio, is easily Canada’s most important cultural and public interest institution. I say this not so much as someone who worked at the Corporation during…
OpenMedia’s Josh Tabish and Cynthia Khoo present to the CRTC Wireline hearing
On Monday, our own Josh Tabish and Cynthia Khoo presented to the CRTC to save independent Canadian ISPs. It was pretty kick-ass, here are the best bits if you missed…