Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Bill Maher offers some simple math and important observations about inequality: – And Gary Engler proposes ten ways to build a better…
2014
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…
West Coast Comments on Proposed Federal Aquaculture Activities Regulations
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has proposed aquaculture regulations that risk making an already untenable situation surrounding net-cage aquaculture worse. Click here to go directly…
A Canadian Veteran Prepares to Go After Peter MacKay
A few weeks ago I told you how veterans are preparing to declare war on the Harper regime, that has treated them so shabbily.And how they are planning to make…
Missing and murdered aboriginal women a black eye on Canada
If Canada wants to be taken seriously, the national crisis of 1,200 missing and murdered aboriginal women must be addressed, argues Winnipeg columnist Don Marks. The post Missing and murdered…
Captives of industry
Regular readers are aware that British Columbia’s natural gas industry provides surprisingly little return to the province by way of royalties for depleting non-renewable public assets. In the last two…
Nalcor and the Eff In Way #nlpoli
Over at Uncle Gnarley, JM’s at it again with the first of a two-parter on Nalcor and its problems with forecasting for Muskrat Falls. Nalcor assumed that they would get…
The Harperland Summer and the Country Where Hope Lives
It's Labour Day. The Snowbirds are roaring over my house for the last time, heading for the CNE air show on the other side of the island. It feels like…
I’m thinking posted speed limits might help
I don’t generally use my bike on Ottawa’s multipurpose pathways. Because I heard somewhere that you’re only supposed to do 20km/h on them. I prefer to ride faster than that.…
King & University: a traffic problem?
Taxi drivers are saying that they are risking their lives to pick up and drop off passengers outside the new high rises on King Street north of University Ave. The…
King & University: a traffic problem?
Taxi drivers are saying that they are risking their lives to pick up and drop off passengers outside the new high rises on King Street north of University Ave. The…
King & University: a traffic problem?
Taxi drivers are saying that they are risking their lives to pick up and drop off passengers outside the new high rises on King Street north of University Ave. The…