Vice: Strip searches filmed by Toronto G20 police
Freedom of Information requests have revealed that the Toronto police filmed G20 protestors being strip search. What do you think of this privacy violation? Article by Patrick McGuire for Vice…
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CBC: HitchBOT’s big Canadian adventure
A robot made from pool noodles, a beer cooler, and solar panels is hitching its way across Canada with the help of social media and the kindness of strangers. Have…
This just flew out of the woods and over my head
Scared the living shit out of me, too: the only things with a motor around here are of the four-stroke variety. Wow. .
CBC: Tinderdoption pairs abandoned pups with new owners using Internet dating app Tinder.
In today’s edition of Internet awesome, this animal rescue agency in Montreal is using the popular dating app Tinder to match its dogs up with potential adopters. Article by the…
Alexandra Morton — More Trouble on Our Coastal Fish Farms
Alexandra Morton-Marine Biologist Hello Last week I returned to Gold River with three dedicated and intrepid friends. We were there to ground truth the statement by the CEO of Grieg…
Cutest of cute
Bai Yun and Yun Zi – photographer unknown
Regulators Ignore One Proven Way to Eliminate Bakken Bomb Trains: Oil Stabilization
On the same day that the Obama administration released long-awaited new safety regulations for the oil-by-rail industry, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) released another report with their…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, August 8, 2014
Your news links for today: Piracy police arrest Nottingham man, 20 – BBC Australia pushes data retention law, despite using metadata at twice the UK level – PrivacySurgeon How Google…
It’s Called "Nuisance Flooding"
Posted by MoS, the Disaffected Lib: It’s the latest term spawned by climate change – “nuisance flooding.” According to Insurance Journal, nuisance flooding is the periodic flooding being experienced due…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jenna Smialiek reports on Gabriel Zucman’s conclusion that the .1% has managed to prevent the rest of us from even approaching reasonable estimates…
Justin At The Mosque
The CPC’s new plan is to bash JT for being soft on terror; they’ve been on him for visiting, back in 2011, the Sunnah Al-Nabawiah mosque, which had been flagged…
Contract interpretation a question of mixed fact and law
In Sattva Capital Corp. v. Creston Moly Corp., 2014 SCC 53 the Supreme Court has changed a long held view that contractual interpretation raises a question of law. The Court…
Jesus Was Not a Real Estate Agent Nor Did he Invent the Bomb
There was a very interesting segment on the documentary program Vice recently, called Armageddon Now. In it they discussed Evangelical Christians and their strange devotion to Israel. Vice’s Thomas Morton…
Why I Stopped Calling Myself A Progressive
Progress can mean a lot of things. The achievement by marginalized people of social citizenship. Collective movement toward big goals that make life better on a societal scale. State intervention…
Our Future Lies With Tailings Ponds
A short rant about Mount Polley and what it means to all of us who give a s*!t about the environment. And a short list of recommendations on how to…
No Pears Bis: It’s Not the End of the Bees, It Seems
This morning I checked out two other pear trees in the neighborhood to see how they had fared this spring. As I recounted in the last post, we don’t have…
It’s Not Working
http://news.nationalpost.com/ Justin Trudeau’s autobiography will soon hit the bookstores. It’s probably been ghost written and — because it’s appearing now — it’s a blatantly political document.