Your news links for today: “The transfer of the spectrum licences from Public Mobile to TELUS… is approved.” – Industry Canada Supervising Surveillance: Oversight and the Communications Security Establishment Canada…
Who’s got the wheel? These days the answer is all too often, no one. And with that comes a decline in predictability and a frightening rise in the volatility of…
It is quite funny. 🙂 Read more here. Baricka O’Bisha Vladdy Pushin’
Cognitive dissonance occurs when an entity embraces two or more contradictory beliefs or values at the same time. As social psychologist Leon Festinger showed, cognitive dissonance in an individual leads…
TweetWhen former cop Steve Young was elected as the MLA for Edmonton-Riverview, it was considered to be a huge coup for the Progressive Conservatives. With Mr. Young as their candidate,…
I love knowledge and it’s exciting that a meta-analysis in JAMA Internal Medicine has concluded that a vegetarian diet is perfect for decreasing blood pressure!Meta-analysis of research data is the…
There is confusion across the country. The Hair is sending Foreign Minister John Baird to the Ukraine. Canadians know that if there is an important trip to anywhere, the first…
Let’s hope they aren’t Russian…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, February 27, 2014: Rediscovering the Art of Dictation on Your iPhone – My post today @SlawTips Same-sex…
Another LHIN-based initiative to restructure “non-urgent patient transfers” is underway. Non-urgent transfers are ambulance-like transfers for patients from hospital to hospital, from hospital to long-term care, or from hospital to…
Here, on the importance of letting voters decide among a full range of potential political candidates – rather than imposing rules or conventions which prohibit senior military leaders, public servants…
Russia and the Ottoman Empire went to war in October 1853 over Russia’s rights to protect Orthodox Christians. Russia gained the upper hand after destroying the Ottoman fleet at the…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Macdonald comments on Statistics Canada’s latest wealth survey, with particular emphasis on the continued gap between a privileged few and the…
Sattva Namaste is the pseudonym of Leon Brule, a Rob Ford and – now – John Tory supporter/activist. Namaste/Brule is well-known to every reporter, municipal politician and political person in…
I received the following email yesterday from Jack Nagler, Director of Journalistic Public Accountability and Engagement at the CBC, regarding my conflict of interest complaint about Rex Murphy. Because the…
Stephen Harper is obsessed with the name Trudeau. When he arrived in Edmonton, a university drop out, he admired Pierre Elliott Trudeau. By the time he graduated from the University…
I see. You know, Trudeau (rightly) apologized for making a bad joke about a situation in which Ukrainian citizens have been killed. But will Harper and his cabal (promptly) apologize…
I’m nine floors up in outer Scarborough (or, as we call it down here, The Bro), facing West, and every once in awhile I find animal poop on the balcony…
With all the talk the past couple of days about the relationship between the provincial government and the provincial energy corporation, it might be a useful time to ask a…
