Best Superbowl commercials
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2014
Engineers leading the way on climate change
Monday, February 3, 2014 Our 2011 report, Professionals and Climate Change, made the case that climate change fundamentally impacts the work and ethical obligations of many different types of professions,…
Yukon Peel Watershed Plan Violates Treaties and Threatens Ecosystems
A coalition of First Nations and conservation groups are suing the Yukon government over a controversial new land-use plan for the Peel River watershed. The Nacho Nyak Dun and Tr’ondek…
Fracking tied to birth defects: Colorado study
Congenital heart defects are the leading cause of all infant deaths in the US A new study, published last week in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives, draws a correlation…
The Middle Class Is Steadily Eroding. Just Ask the Business World. – NYTimes.com
The Middle Class Is Steadily Eroding. Just Ask the Business World. – NYTimes.com. In Manhattan, the upscale clothing retailer Barneys will replace the bankrupt discounter Loehmann’s, whose Chelsea store closes…
Feb.3: page C4 – only in the Irving press….
C4 is in NewsToday, the place for big national and international news. At the top of the page is a story about Toronto mayor Rob Ford. He got a jaywalking…
OANHSS calls for $135.4 million to cope with aggressive behaviours in Ontario’s nursing homes
Watching a sampling of presentations to the province’s all-party standing committee looking at the upcoming spring budget, many organizations are couching their language in the context of ongoing fiscal restraint.…
Tarnishing the OC
“Lord” Black is a criminal. "Honours do not make a man" ww2.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.html… insists the man who renounced Canadian citizenship to become a "Lord." OK, then.— CC (@canadiancynic) February 03, 2014…
He wasn’t perfect…
… but no one is. Yet then PM Chrètien led by example back in 1993 when he came to power and significantly cut his Ministers’ budgets. Tired of the ballooning…
Canada is Not the Arbiter of What is Genocide
Any policy or law that denies people their culture is genocide. No adjective of “cultural” is required; genocide is genocide. In the Anishinaabeg tradition, the place where rivers intersect is…
healthy slow-cooker recipe of the week: i finally make delicious lentil soup, thanks to you
Last summer, I asked for help in turning my drab lentil soup into something more yummy and enticing. Thanks to wmtc readers, I’ve done it. Yesterday for the first time,…
Coal Train Blues
Counterfeit Cash, a Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash tribute band based in Portland, Oregon, has just released a new music video, “Coal Train Blues,” a cover of the Man…
IMPORTANT REQUEST
To the person who sent us the link yesterday to those incredible resources. You also wrote that you had sent us an email as well however we were unable to…
Rob Ford’s broken promises
Nearly 6,000 views since it appeared on Friday. Coincidentally, 6,000 is the relevant number for illegal campaign donations Rob Ford took in the last election.
Back in the closet in Sochi
My view on Sochi remains the same – we shouldn’t have gone and ignored/validated Putin’s gay-hate. My friend Strombo just tweeted something, however, you should read: a member of the…
Frucking fracking commercial and danger to environment
The following commercial – and similar commercials – are shown every day, singing the songs of fracking and how it is supposedly safe. The reality is quite different. Fracking causes…
Are we just self-appointed hall monitors?
It takes years of writing a blog to realize what you are really doing. You do not want to be a nag, but you are. You are not just a…