A statement for and about the new age
Me: Hey, look, Twitter’s down. Colleague Aaron: Yeah, I know. And I can’t even tweet about it. .
2014
Missing fish farms offer clue to anticipated 70 million sockeye return
Expect big salmon numbers this summer. The Fraser sockeye run may be as high as 70 million. Yes, 70. And the most important sport angling species, chinook and coho, seem…
The global economy—a case of bad engineering
For a number of years I toiled in the oil industry as an engineer, and not infrequently lessons I learned from my engineering experience return to inform me in other…
I’m Confused About Events in the Ukraine
Who should we be supporting as Ukraine and Russia get in a tussle?
RoFo 2014!!
A Rob Ford re-election victory in October would be the best thing possible for Canadian democracy. What better way to show our voting system is joke than to have an…
Free trade with South Korea more boneheaded ideology
Thirty years of free-market reforms have caused debt and inequality to soar, hollowed out the middle class, hobbled income mobility and produced a global economic meltdown we have yet to…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Your news links for today: Péladeau’s move into political spotlight casts doubt on Ottawa’s wireless ambitions – National Post Facts vs FUD: Roam Mobility vs Rogers – HowardForums read more
People need to launch their own takeover bid
When people find themselves nodding in agreement with Andrew Coyne and the National Post, questions ought to be raised. Coyne titled his latest piece “rogue Québec billionaire launching takeover bid,”…
People need to launch takeover bid of their own
When people find themselves nodding in agreement with Andrew Coyne and the National Post, questions ought to be raised. Coyne titled his piece his latest piece “rogue Québec billionaire launching…
Inject More Serendipity Into Your Online Adventures
Not Recommended For You is a new website that is a reaction to all the other websites that recommend content based on what you do. Google tailors your search results…
A Dutch Village – Prison or Paradise?
There’s a story about Hogewey, a village in The Netherlands that’s gone viral on social media recently. It’s a closed village (ie. it’s got walls around it and there’s an…
Harper’s South Korea Trip
I am not against free trade per se, it has its benefits in expanding markets and bringing our world together. When people are trading with each other and making money,…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Mitchell Anderson compares the results of corporate-friendly Thatcherism to the alternative of public resource ownership and development in the interest of citizens…
What’s in a missing word?
There’s a line in one of Horace’s epistles that really caught my eye. In Latin it reads: Utque sacerdotis fugitiuus liba recuso, pane egeo iam mellitis potiore placentis Horace: Epistles,…
An Extreme Of Capitalism?
Anyone who reads my blog regularly and has drawn the conclusion that I am anti-capitalism would be completely wrong. I have nothing against business, entrepreneurship, nor corporations, per se. And…
Open Letter on the Fair Elections Act
Over the weekend, I was asked to sign an open letter regarding the proposed "Fair Elections Act", a seriously-flawed piece of legislation with an Orwellian name. I was happy to…
Open Letter on the Fair Elections Act
Over the weekend, I was asked to sign an open letter regarding the proposed “Fair Elections Act”, a seriously-flawed piece of legislation with an Orwellian name. I was happy to…
Open Letter on the Fair Elections Act
Over the weekend, I was asked to sign an open letter regarding the proposed "Fair Elections Act", a seriously-flawed piece of legislation with an Orwellian name. I was happy to…
Open Letter on the Fair Elections Act
Over the weekend, I was asked to sign an open letter regarding the proposed “Fair Elections Act”, a seriously-flawed piece of legislation with an Orwellian name. I was happy to…