Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Your news links for today: The Web We Want: Could Canada Lead on a Digital Bill of Rights? – Michael Geist Mapping Digital Media: Canada – Open Society Foundations Young…
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John Tory, Man Of The People (The Rich People)
Canadian Fashion Designer @daviddixoninc and I after his fantastic show at #WMCFW #TorontoFashionWeek #TOpoli pic.twitter.com/BJ6iq7Mw8Q— John Tory (@johntoryTO) March 19, 2014 Appearances like this aren’t going to win him many…
Governing in Secret #cdnpoli
.@joeoliver1: "we'll talk a little later" as he gets into car. Let's see if Greg Rickford talks. #hw— Laura Payton (@laura_payton) March 19, 2014 Canada's new Minister of State for…
Documentary on Finland’s Education System
Finland has one of the best education systems in the world and repeatedly ranks amongst the top 3. Why? Basically Finland’s education system is diametrically opposite to how education in…
There’s a hard-ass on the lily-pad.
It would be better to note the resignation of Prime Minister Harper but a change of guard at Finance is a small start. At least we will not have Jim…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, March 19, 2014: Medical marijuana users eye B.C. court case to avoid ‘doomsday’ Plasma clinic plans to…
Rogers tells its employees to attend tonight’s John Tory rally
Nice little scoop, by Global’s Jackson Proskow, here. Suggests Tory’s rally tonight isn’t very authentic, doesn’t it? .
Hmmm. That sounds familiar… #nlpoli
Premier Tom Marshall, in the House of Assembly, discussing what the provincial government can and cannot release: There is nothing in the ATIPP legislation that prevents government, with the exception…
Better To Reign In Hell
Jim Flaherty jumped ship yesterday. It came as no surprise. When he questioned the wisdom of income splitting, he signalled that he was heading for dry land. He had the…
Tony Blair and the Corporatization of Social Democracy
Tony Blair, by any sensible yardstick, is a douchebag. Recently, The Guardian, under the headline “Toxic”, detailed Blair’s “downward spiral”. This included the revelation that he may have been having…
Recusal motion
Dugas v. Gaudet et al., 2014 NBCA 7: The grounds giving rise to the apprehension of bias must be sufficiently serious to rebut the presumption that the judge will abide…
More From Star Readers
Whenever I need a morale boost, I look to the letters’ section of The Toronto Star. There I find regular confirmation that progressive notions are far from dead in this…
The Sad and Dismal Legacy of Little Jimbo Flaherty
Well I see that little Jimbo Flaherty has fallen off his mole hill for the very last time.Or left Stephen's Harper's murky pond. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has resigned. He…
Doing it exactly right #nlpoli
No one could have picked a better panel of three people to review the provincial government’s access to information law than the three announced by Premier Tom Marshall on Tuesday.…
Godzilla Preview/Review: Godzilla Vs. Pacific Rim
It can’t POSSIBLY be as good as Pacific Rim! Pacific Rim had Giant Monsters in the plural AND GIANT ROBOTS!!! This has just one (1) monster, even though he’s a…
Stephen Harper and the Con Day of Infamy
It couldn't have been a more welcome sight. The last Canadian soldiers returning from Afghanistan. If I had been watching them coming in to land, I would have been waving…
Early Autism Identification Breakthrough? That’s Funny, Conor Was Diagnosed 16 Years Ago At Age 2!
Above: Conor last month leaving school with his Mom on his 18th birthday Below: Conor 16 years ago on his 2nd birthday. The next day he received his autism diagnosis.…