Friday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to end your week. – Simon Wren-Lewis nicely describes the austerity con (coming soon in extreme form to an Alberta near you): ‘Mediamacro’ is the term I use…
2015
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, February 13, 2015
Your news links for today: “Canada Remains A Safe Haven For Online Piracy” – TorrentFreak Go to Prison for Sharing Files? That’s What Hollywood Wants in the Secret TPP Deal…
The Adams-Soudas story has legs.
The news media expect the MP Eve Adams story to be around for a while. The copy is just too good to pass up. The blonde (or brunette, depending on…
Bank of Canada: Important Ruling Concerning Money Issuance
Bank of Canada told it should issue money interest-free instead of borrowing from banks.
Dear Sun News Network folks
I was on Twitter, past midnight, reading some of the things people were saying about the network’s demise. There was a lot of gloating and awful stuff being said. I…
Stephen Harper: Racist AND a Hypocrite!
Just WHO should be covering up? I recall once that Stephen Harper believed in championing religious freedom. Except for people he doesn’t like. Now he’s appealing a federal court ruling…
Did he really say that?
How does he get this stuff out of his mouth? Pope Francis, I mean. In a recent audience in St. Peter’s Square, he declared that couples who choose not to…
Maroc-Is the Cowichan Valley Ready For the High Tech Sector?
Don Maroc – Cowichan Conversations Blogger At Wednesday’s meeting of the Cowichan Valley Regional District’s Board (CVRD) Damir Wallener delivered a very professional presentation extolling the financial virtues of a…
Interview with Cuban dissident economist Marta Beatriz Roque
Marta Beatriz Roque is the founder of the Cuban Institute of Independent Economists, and a prominent Cuban dissident who has been in and out of prison several times. Robert Broughton:…
Failing to provide necessities of life
R. v. S.J., 2015 ONCA 97: The offence of failing to provide necessaries of life first appeared in 1892 in the first Criminal Code. English 19th century legislation dealing with…
The End of an Era of Television This Week
He gave us hilarious moments, oft-repeated commentary on the major social issues of the day, and riled his opponents in a way that no other television personality could. Goodbye, and…
A good-news story in Canadian media/journalism news: Sun…
A good-news story in Canadian media/journalism news: Sun “News” Network, aka Fox News North, aka the Conservative Broadcasting Corporation, aka Harper TV, aka Scum Spews is finally shutting down due…
The Sun Won’t Rise Tomorrow for Sun News. Canada Yawns.
FOX News North is down the toilet. Nobody wanted to watch the drivel dished up by Ezra & Co. so management decided it was time to give it the big…
The Free Hand of the Market slaps SUN tee vee upside the head.
Well. As always I am very pissed off for the people who worked there. These jobs belonged to and supported many people. But hey. They are kvetching and playing pointy…
What Kinder Morgan is Keeping Secret About its Trans Mountain Spill Response Plans
Kinder Morgan, the company currently seeking permission to nearly triple the capacity of the Trans Mountain pipeline to carry Albertan crude to the west coast, has engaged in a protracted…
In Friday’s Sun: the five stages of political denial
Political people are all the same. Whenever they get into big trouble – whatever their party, whatever their ideology – they go through Five Stages of Political Denial, sort of…
Sun sets
It’s true. There are some good people there, and I feel very bad for them. They worked hard. They were good to me, too, over the past four years. My…
DIe Media Die: Sun News Network is DEAD DEAD DEAD
YES!!! YES!!!! YES!!! BOOOYAH!!!!!! BOOYAH!!!!!! BOOYAH!!!!! YES YES YES YES!!!!!!! BOOYAHBOOYAH BOOYAH!!!!!! WHOSE YOUR DADDY?? WHOSE YOUR DADDY? IZE YOUR DADDY AND IM GONNA SPANKY SPANKY SPANKY YOUR “@CBCAlerts: @CBCNews…
Sun TV News is dead?
Will Ezra have to go back to being a cashier at a dep in Laval? Film at 11. (1) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Nothing Personal, Eve Adams, but Marco’s my pick.
I’m not going to get irate or flabbergasted or question her motives over her crossing the floor as some Liberals have. It took some courage to do this, and I…