MOOCs for Development – Day 2
The Challenge of MOOCs Panel Stephen Downes Please see my presentation and audio here: http://www.downes.ca/presentation/339 N.V. Varghese – view from developing countries – largest expansion of the system in this…
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Canadian Progressives Aggregator….New home….!!!
So, every spring, the flowers start to bloom, the grass grows, the trees bud, and the host for the Canadian progressives Aggregator demands a massive sum of money to host…
Canadian Progressives Aggregator….New home….!!!
So, every spring, the flowers start to bloom, the grass grows, the trees bud, and the host for the Canadian progressives Aggregator demands a massive sum of money to host…
NDP leadership candidate Horgan would reverse Parks Act changes
Read this April 11 story by Stephen Hui in The Georgia Straight about BC NDP leadership candidate John Horgan’s vow to repeal the controversial Bill 4, which opened BC’s parks…
Should artists be able to pay taxes with artwork?
As income tax filing deadlines approach across North America, many Mexican artists will be counting canvases instead of pay stubs. In Mexico, a country that has lost over $870 billion…
Michael Geist: The outlook for Canada’s digital future is not rosy
BY THE NUMBERS: the government’s Digital Canada 150 plan will allow Canada to fall behind other industrialized nations and worsen the digital divide between Canadians. Think that’s not good enough?…
Significant risks face Ontario’s plan to shift hospital services to private clinics
Dr. Danielle Martin looks uncomfortable discussing the government’s recent plan to move hospital services into so-called specialty clinics. On the one hand the VP of Toronto’s Women’s College Hospital sees…
Kitimat Enbridge vote: Grassroots campaign poised to win unfair fight
Signs of the times in Kitimat, BC (Photo: Kathy Ouwehand) By the Canadian Press KITIMAT, B.C. – Residents of Kitimat will cast votes in a local plebiscite Saturday for or…
This Gift From Montreal Simon
I have to admit I was feeling rather discouraged the other day when I read this CBC report in which an EKOS Research poll found that only 27 percent of…
Take Action: Say no to pipelines in our parks!
Friday, April 11, 2014 We’ve just learned that Kinder Morgan has received an illegal park use permit from the BC government to allow it to research pipeline routes through 5…
27 B.C. Climate Experts Rejected From Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Hearings
This week a group of climate experts published a letter detailing the climate impacts of the proposed tripling of the Trans Mountain pipeline which carries oilsands diluted bitumen and other…
Thank You For Your Service Mr. Flaherty
“Jim Flaherty was a dedicated public servant. Canada is poorer for his loss. RIP.”
Comments by communist leader Symonenko spark mayhem and fistfights in Ukrainian parliament: video
A free-for-all push-and-punch fest broke out in the Ukrainian parliament this week when a communist leader, Pyotr Symonenko, blamed the nationalists for dividing the nation and aggravating tensions in the…
Fascist approach to voting reform self-defeating
Fair Vote Canada has decided to take, what I call, the fascist approach to voting reform. They are proportional representation zealots who think they’ll win by waging a war against…
On Harper’s Judgement
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Supreme Court restores pre-trial credit for offenders; yet another SCC decision against recent Government initiatives
R. v. Summers, 2014 SCC 26: The Truth in Sentencing Act, passed in 2009, changed the statutory regime governing credit for pre‑sentence detention. Parliament modified s. 719(3) of the Criminal…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, April 11, 2014
Your news links for today: Privacy Act Ignores Reckless and Expensive Government Surveillance – Epoch Times Information commissioner finds three Tory staffers interfered in with access-to-information requests – iPolitics Digital…
April 11: A two-page obituary
I’m sure that Jim Flaherty, former minister of finance, was a worthy and loved man. But most of us just get a few words ending in “missed by all”. With…