LNG Pipedreams: Feat. Liz Logan, Damien Gillis – May 21
Are you concerned about the impacts of fracking and liquified fracked gas (also know as liquefied natural gas or LNG) export? Join us for a night of powerful speakers from…
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Guest blog by Canada’s mobile Internet hero Ben Klass: Don’t let Big Telecom turn your smartphone into a dumb TV
Chances are you have a love-hate relationship with your wireless provider: you love being able to use your smartphone wherever you go, but hate the high prices that Big Telecom…
What’s Wrong with This Picture: Fast Food Workers Demonstrate for Better Wages While Canadian Chains Bring in Foreign Workers
It’s a no brainer, isn’t it? Pay people decently and they’ll work. I’d like the think that Stephen Harper and his friends are beginning to see the wisdom in this.…
Some fooling about in Instagram
Some fooling about in Instagram Just started some fooling about in Instagram. I poke around a bit with various filter apps. I thought it might be a good place to…
The New Liberal Party of Canada
And I don’t mean that as a compliment. Yesterday, while appearing on CTV’s True North Politics panel, one of the subjects that we debated was abortion. Specifically, Justin Trudeau’s pro-choice…
I adjusted the scans to the Ting book pages.
Oh, hey, I uploaded the adjusted scans for the Ting book pages. I’m noticing that there seems to be no way to tag or add descriptions to these Google drive…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Polly Toynbee looks at how the UK is now treating children in need as investment opportunities to be exploited by investors, rather than…
Federal Regulator Acting "Impermissibly in Favour" of TransCanada’s Energy East Pipeline, Says Lawyer
The National Energy Board (NEB), the federal regulator responsible for inter-provincial pipelines, appears to have jumped the gun on TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline proposal by releasing a ‘list of issues’…
Cons Whine, Mulcair Shines….
Not for the first time, I can find little in print to refer to as I usually do, because of all the sickening Con-licking going on lately in the media..so…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, May 16, 2014
Your news links for today: The world reacts to the FCC’s net neutrality vote – The Verge Obama Backs Away From Net Neutrality Campaign Promises After FCC Vote – TIME…
Why The European Commission Is Wrong: The Case Of Spain – Social Europe Journal
Why The European Commission Is Wrong: The Case Of Spain – Social Europe Journal. The Vice President of the European Commission, Olli Rehn, in charge of Economic and Monetary Affairs…
Following Politics Too Closely Takes Its Toll
I imagine that many people who follow politics closely do so in the belief that it is one of the few arenas that offers the possibility of change on a…
India election
Teddy here with a quick update on results of the Indian election; the largest free elections in the world. As I’ve been mentioning for a while now, the election takes…
The biggest pounding of Justin Trudeau yet – by a progressive woman. In the Star.
I don’t always read her, and I frequently disagree with her. But much of this DiManno column is overdue and on the mark. I cannot tell you how many Liberals…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, May 16, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, May 16, 2014: “A Lawyer Breaks the Silence About Depression Among Lawyers” Clippers owner Donald Sterling threatens…
In League With The Elite
Carol Goar writes that the NDP has forsaken its traditional role as the champion of the poor. That is the case with Tom Mulcair’s federal party. And it certainly is…
Let’s give the voters a time-out.
The City of Toronto is in the most trouble. It really needs a break. The city and even the province are suffering from hyper-politicossis. It is a rare disease that…
Spike in Stillborn and Neonatal Deaths Reported in Heavily Drilled Vernal, Utah
A midwife in Vernal, Utah, has raised a red flag about a spike in the number of stillbirths and neonatal deaths in the small town in 2013. The concern has…
Stephen Harper and the Foul Smearing of Tom Mulcair
There surely could not have been a more outrageous sight than the spectacle of Tom Mulcair today being grilled like a criminal.And accused by the Cons of using parliamentary funds…
CMAJ: Current Evidence Based, Effective Autism Treatments and Interventions: ABA and Only ABA
An article in the January 13, 2014 issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Autism spectrum disorder: advances in evidence-based practice, confirms what American authorities have told us for decades,…