What dogs do best
Filed under: art Tagged: dog, sleep, stop bugging me
2014
The Hero is You
You know that moment in the movie when the music swells and the light picks up and you just know that somewhere, from out of some corner of the screen,…
Murder, she wrote
The “root cause” for why Indigenous women are murdered and missing?Men are killing them. Usually, white men.Really, its as simple as that.Sarah Hunt asks why are we so hesitant to…
Federal Judge: BP’s "Willful Misconduct," "Gross Negligence" Led To Deepwater Horizon Disaster
A federal judge in New Orleans minced no words in handing down a ruling this week that found BP‘s “willful misconduct” and “gross negligence” caused the worst offshore oil spill…
What Does Climate Adaptation Actually Look Like? Check Out This Awesome New Infographic Series from Cambridge
A new series looking at the likely impacts of climate change could help companies, politicians, financial planners, entrepreneurs, defence analysts and leaders of various industrial sectors learn how to adapt…
What Does Climate Adaptation Actually Look Like? Check Out This Awesome New Infographic Series from Cambridge
A new series looking at the likely impacts of climate change could help companies, politicians, financial planners, entrepreneurs, defence analysts and leaders of various industrial sectors learn how to adapt…
Enbridge will likely miss 2018 construction start for Northern Gateway
Read this Sept. 4 story from the Canadian Press suggesting that Enbridge won’t meet its planned construction start of 2018 for the Northern Gateway Pipeline. CALGARY — The president of…
New laws would enable fish farms to dump more waste, chemicals
Yardstick standing upright in waste layer below fish farm, up to 32 inch mark (Friends of Port Mouton Bay) Read this Aug. 27 story from CBC.ca on changes to aquaculture…
Absent express findings supporting a finding that finding is an error of law
R. v. Batty, 2014 ONCA 620: While this court cannot “revisit factual findings or correct errors of mixed fact and law” (R. v. R.R., 2008 ONCA 497, 234 C.C.C. (3d)…
Giving Harper credit when credit is due
Filed under: Cartoons (Single Panel), Making fun of Harper
Guest Blog: Fight Telus’ Prepaid Wireless Policy
This guest blog was written by Celia Sankar Telus prepaid wireless pay-per-use customers who racked up balances of over $300 (as a result of topping up to prevent their funds…
Neoliberalism & the City
Municipalities have long been sites of neoliberal policy experimentation and contestation. Since the onset of the 2008 recession, the local state has come under new pressures to privatize social services…
Cat is not happy with contemporaneous occurances
Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, disgruntled in fact, not happy
Briant Mulroney warns Stephant Harper to ‘never count out the Liberals’
Inspired by these headlines: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/brian-mulroney-warns-stephen-harper-to-never-count-out-the-liberals-1.2756734 http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/isis-in-iraq-canada-to-send-special-ops-soldiers-as-advisers-1.2755841
In An Information-Based Economy When You Provide Crap Information You Hurt The Economy
From here. Original stats-can report is here.
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, September 5, 2014
Your news links for today: The U.S. Government’s Secret Plans to Spy for American Corporations – The Intercept This Week in Privacy (August 30 – September 5) – imgur Infographic…
Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Job Numbers
Today Statistics Canada released their first set of job numbers since the ‘oops’ of July 2014. And the news was dismal. The labour market shed 112,000 private sector positions, the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jordan Brennan examines the close links between strong organized labour and improved wages for all types of workers: U.S. scholars have found that…
Ricochet
I found this site the other day and was encouraged to see the youthful energy, the quality of journalism offered and the potential ‘Richchet’ bring us. Ricochet is a new…