Measuring MOOC Media
Here’s the information I sent Steve Kolowsich for his Chronicle article on the (possible?) decline of MOOC mentions in the media: My data measures news articles from selected (and reasonably…
2014
Sometimes, Clicking Your Heels Does Not Send You To Kansas
This thoughtful letter explains why: Re: Tory MP takes aim at elections watchdog, April 9 When it comes to fairness and objectivity, I have more faith in the former auditor…
MMBC could feed incinerators, put local recyclers out of business
Gibsons Recycling Depot owners Barb Hetherington and Buddy Boyd Read this April 11 story from the Coast Reporter on the growing controversy surrounding new waste management plans – including a…
If I Had a Hammer: David Rovics’ songs of social significance
This column originally appeared in the March-April issue of Canadian Dimension magazine. View this issue here. The Popular Front is a regular column by Sean Carleton, bringing politics to arts…
Eagle Spirit offers First Nations ‘energy corridor’ as Enbridge alternative
Eagle Spirit’s Calvin Helin speaking the Vancouver Board of Trade VANCOUVER – A plebiscite defeat for the company proposing a $6-billion oil pipeline across northern British Columbia may have opened…
Why Isn’t Petcoke Regulated As a Public Health Threat?
Last year, a train leaving a Valero refinery in Benicia, CA derailed while carrying petroleum coke, also known as petcoke, a toxic byproduct of the crude oil refining process. None…
Oral Hearings Quietly Vanish From Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Review
A lawyer representing the City of Burnaby says the National Energy Board (NEB) has turned its review of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline into a “mere paperwork exercise” by cutting…
Zing!
Dithers’ “number one priority” just got blowed up, real good. .
We won’t have Medicare II without federal leadership — Himelfarb
Alex Himelfarb understands the 2004 10-year health accord better than most. At the time it was negotiated, he was the highest ranking civil servant in Ottawa. The $41.3 billion Accord…
Qualified privilege
Merit Consultants International Ltd. v. Chandler, 2014 BCCA 121: Qualified privilege, however, is not limited to the contents of documents filed in judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings. As Brown writes (supra,…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, April 14, 2014
Your news links for today: NSA never used Heartbleed to spy, White House says – CBC News NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years – Bloomberg Obama…
Flaherty: good person, not-so-good finance minister
Jim Flaherty is being remembered by Canadians across the country as a kind, decent person and dedicated public servant. But some pundits are taking things too far. In a shallow…
Reading The Signs
Over the weekend, voters — in Calgary and Kitimat — made two important decisions. Tim Harper writes: In one, Conservatives in Calgary’s Signal Hill riding finally rid themselves of a…
In Praise of our Distinguished Predecessor
J. King Gordon (b.1900, d.1989) was not a professional economist, though as a Rhodes Scholar he studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford while inhaling the Fabianism in the air.…
Ducks: A Story About the Tar Sands
Kate Beaton of Hark a Vagrant fame once worked in the Alberta tar sands. She recently made a short comic about her time working there (which she did to pay…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Michael Harris observes that the Cons’ vote suppression tactics match the worst abuses we’d expect from the Tea Party: Stephen Harper would make…
TFW Program: Shut It Down NOW!
A few weeks ago, we learned of a few McDonald’s restaurants abusing the Temporary Foreign Worker program by giving preferential treatment to candidates coming in under the TFW program over…
Quebec (massive post)
Warning, as indicated in the title, this is a massive post. It contains a number of loosely connected ideas that I will go though section by section by section. #1Federal…