Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Robert Reich calls out four fundamental lies used to push corporatist policies. But perhaps more interesting is the truth which no amount of…
2014
May 9: Mike’s Bike Shop facelift nearly complete
As soon as I saw that as the big story (half page with photo) on the front page, I knew there wasn’t going to be much to say about today’s…
Austerity Bites, Employment Rate Falls Again
Today’s labour force numbers are ugly, there’s no other word for it. Employment down 29,000 jobs. Paid employment (ie. not counting self-employment) down 46,000 jobs. The only reason the unemployment…
Political Eh-conomy Radio: CLC Convention 2014
This week’s convention of the Canadian Labour Congress was more eventful than it has been in some time. There was a change of leadership and an energy palpable even from…
Convention 2014: Take our Pharmacare quiz and win!
Every Commission that has looked into health care delivery in Canada has recommended bringing prescription drugs under the Medicare umbrella. As modern health care has evolved, drug therapies have become…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, May 9, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, May 9, 2014: My post today at SlawTips: The WalMartization of Law Begins in Ontario Harper’s timing…
Sleeping Through The Drama
Thomas Picketty’s new book, Capital In The 21st Century, is generating a flurry of interest south of the border. Paul Krugman has praised the book’s scholarship and its conclusion that…
POLL: Ontario Election – Who Has the Best Bus?
Will Kathleen Wynne’s steady hands stay at 10 and 2? How many of Tim Hudak’s million jobs are for designing bus wrap slogans? What’s the insurance rate for Andrea Horwath’s…
Your morning Ontario election news
This is all you need to know. Oh, and Hudak is doing a lot better after his two initial flubs. Prediction for next few days: Harper PMO are going to…
Is this as you like it Ms. Wynne?
There is a wonderful old expression, still in use today: “Hoisted by your own petard.” It simply means that the schemes you used to harm others can be used against…
Sometimes Our Opinions Just Don’t Matter
The headline for this piece comes from a recent article in Time Magazine: “Dear CNN: Sometimes Our Opinions Just Don’t Matter.” The article isn’t – as you might have thought…
Why Is The Harper Regime Surveilling Us?
It’s a good question, but unfortunately and predictably, the government is providing us with no answers. As reported in today’s Star, The federal privacy watchdog’s concerns over electronic snooping are…
Best photo of 2014 so far
Taken at yesterday’s pro-life rally on the Hill, by the Ottawa Sun’s clearly very talented Tony Cladwell. What a classic shot.
Is Connectivism a Broad Family of Ideas?
I think it is worth looking at the end of Jon Dron’s long post to get to the heart of what he finds so wrong about my work. I reserve…
What Did You Learn About Care From Your Mother?
Mother’s Day 2014 got me wondering how we learn to be good caregivers – what lessons about caring did we learn from our own mothers? I asked friends and colleagues…
Keep the momentum going #nlpoli
Frank Coleman’s idea for change in Newfoundland and Labrador is to keep everything the way it is. As CBC reported in March, “Coleman said one of his priorities if he…
Weak Questions get Weak Answers #nlpoli
Nalcor’s effort to have local taxpayers subsidize electricity exports to Massachusetts came up in the House of Assembly on Thursday. Well, sort of came up. New Democratic Party leader Lorraine…
The Real TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline Commercial
* Finally, ‘Cosmos’ Takes On Climate Change
Stephen Harper and the Day of Disappointment
Well today is the National Day of Honour. The day Stephen Harper proclaimed should honour all those who served in Afghanistan.But as I explained the other night, is an unseemly…