China Helps Pave the Road to Paris with Ambitious Climate Pledge
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang • Photo by Friends of Europe China formally pledged on Tuesday to play an ambitious role in curbing its carbon dioxide emissions over the next…
July 2015
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, July 13, 2015
Your news links for today: The Latest Snowden Leak Is Devastating to NSA Defenders – The Atlantic TSA Blows Off Inspector General’s Suggestion Boarding Pass Information Be Encrypted – Techdirt…
The Deficit Battle and the Economic War
Evidence continues to mount regarding Canada’s lousy economic trajectory, and there is now a pretty broad consensus among Canadian economists that the economy was likely in recession in the first…
Using Comics to Explain Complex Economics
Economix Comix is a series of comics that looks at, you guessed it, economics. Using comics is a great way to translate really complex economic ideas into something which is…
Celebrity Impact
So Harry Styles advises us to avoid SeaWorld if we care about dolphins, and everybody’s talking about it. This could just be the needle that broke the camel’s back; many…
140 Law – Current Leading Legal Headlines
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Psychologists Shielded U.S. Torture Program, Report Finds Breastfeeding mom asked to leave Ontario restaurant, she claims | CBCNews.ca Mobile…
Do Conservatives consider Justin Trudeau dangerous?
While most Canadians simply laugh off the silly “Trudeau’s not ready” commercials playing with increasing intensity on English-language television, there is another more layered campaign underlying it. This more insidious…
If You Know Some Young Potential Voters
Please send them this so that we can have less of this and thisin the future. Recommend this Post
More RCMPolice Training Dogs
Woof!!!
Failing Economics 101
https://www.pinterest.com/ Stephen Harper and Joe Oliver like to pose as economic gurus. They claim that, when it comes to running the nation’s economy, they know what they’re doing. But, Jim
Can I get a peace bond?
If someone is harassing you it is possible, in some circumstances, to get what is known as a peace bond. That is a court order requiring that person to leave…
The unexpected benefits of climate change
Sure, half of Western Canada was on fire, polar bears were evolving into full amphibians, and the bee population was fucked, but there were some side benefits to global warming.…
Pierre Poilievre, Mini Harper, and the Con Race to the Bottom
As I'm sure you remember, the last time we dropped in on Pierre Poilievre aka Pee Wee or Dickhead, he was posing with a pile of child care benefit cheques…
Cripple you say? #nlpoli
Unnamed Conservative “insiders” have been talking about the Ches Crosbie nomination fiasco as if it was a rejection of a new Tory Jesus or something. The way they talk you’d…
#ThisIsACoup
Filed under: Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Greece, Syriza
Reunite Alberta’s right? The Great Wildrose Experiment is going to be hard to undo
PHOTOS: Wildrose Party Leader Brian Jean at the Calgary Stampede. Too country to be electable in the new Alberta? (Photo from Mr. Jean’s Flickr account.) Below: Former Harper strategist Ken…
After Greece and Spain, the rise of anti-austerity in Ireland
After Greece and Spain, the rise of anti-austerity in Ireland. Filed under: Austerity Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Ireland
On Friendships of Utility not Virtue
It sounds horrible, doesn’t it? Like we’re using people, hanging out with them only because they have a nice car or because they often pick up the bill for lunch.…
Is it unlawful to link to this web site?
Apparently. But here it is anyway.
Reviewing HTML/CSS
Just a quick FYI, I just completed Codecademy’s HTML/CSS course. It’s somewhat of a commitment (I’d guess estimate of 7 hours estimate is pretty accurate), but it doesn’t require any…