Twerps On A Plane
Once again a plane intended to ferry party-animal Canadians to a booze soaked week in the tropics, has “had” to turn back to Toronto. No, planes don’t have to go…
2014
Peter MacKayAnt poses in pro-Anteater ‘No Compromise’ T-shirt
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/peter-mackay-poses-in-pro-gun-no-compromise-t-shirt-1.2748676
Vancouver Votes: Hope for COPE?
For a city embraced by mountains on one side and ocean on the other, Vancouver can seem like an unhappy place. And with a civic election scheduled for November 15,…
This Just In
According to a CBC report, EU lawmakers are threatening to block a multi-billion dollar trade pact between Canada and the European Union — a blueprint for a much bigger EU-U.S.…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, August 28, 2014
Your news links for today: Rogers, Shaw Latest to Think They Can Build a Netflix Killer – DSL Reports Hands-on with shomi, the future of video-on-demand in Canada (video) –…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Paul Buchheit highlights how inequality continues to explode in the U.S. by comparing the relatively small amounts of money spent on even…
Dollhouse Gone
It was destroyed by the artist last year in a fire. I stopped by it several years ago.
How to Run a Country
I’ve posted a review of Philip Freeman’s book, How to Run a Country on the Municipal Machiavelli site, here: ianchadwick.com/machiavelli/how-to-run-a-country/ Freeman’s work is a short (132 pages in a small…
Our Anti-Democratic Democracy
This morning, in my print edition of The Toronto Star, I saw the following headline: Canadian scientists to be placed in isolation. While it turned out to be a story…
For ParaMed Tuesday’s impending Renfrew strike is just business
Wednesday Renfrew County workers for ParaMed Home Health Care held a surprise picket outside the company’s Ottawa offices. ParaMed has expressed remarkable indifference to an imminent strike that will sideline…
Ignorance Is Strength
http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/ The central theme of Stephen Harper’s re-election campaign has emerged: Harper against the elites. In his tour of the North, Harper called Justin Trudeau an elitist. And, this week,…
Using Fashion to Charge Electronics
Battery life on mobiles is never very good and this causes a drain on the electrical system. What if we were able to power our mobiles by just wearing clothes?…
Torstar: The ugly face of today’s capitalism.
A classified advertisement in The Toronto Star caught the eye the other day. It was offering $13.50 per hour for ‘production operators’ at the newspaper and publishing company’s printing facility…
Crazy Town is right
It’s Forum, so everybody needs to take a frigging Valium. On the other hand, however, this:
Stephen Harper and the Deep Not So Blue Ontario Sea
It was so beautiful and warm yesterday I wish I could have spent the whole day sunning myself on the beach, or swimming in Lake Ontario.Because when I saw the…
The Canadian Environment: Who Can Speak?
News of this paper arrived on my twitter feed last evening, and one of the author’s was kind enough to email me the entire thing. It takes a look at…
Shockwaves #nlpoli
The day after the by-election in St. George’s-Stephenville East, federal New Democratic Party member of parliament Ryan Cleary showed an interest in provincial politics some might find curious. “The question…
The Incredibly Incompetent Comic Adventures of Peter Dumbo MacKay
OK. Before I write another word, I want to make one thing perfectly clear eh? I'm biased.I have ALWAYS had a very poor opinion of Peter Dumbo MacKay.From the moment…
When Shaming Survivors is Not Enough: Police-State Motives Behind Sexual Assault Transit Ads
Photo credit Instagram: @the_noush. Permission to use granted. By Emily Griffiths The Transit Police got burned in the media recently, when rad feminist transit riders called them out publicly for…