New light on Saskatoon’s ‘starlight tours’ (repost)
On Jan. 28, 2000, two police officers drove Darrell Night five kilometres outside of Saskatoon and abandoned him in -22° C weather with just a T-shirt and jean jacket on…
April 2016
From Siri to sexbots: Female AI reinforces a toxic desire for passive, agreeable and easily dominated women (repost)
A recent article titled “Why is AI Female?” made the connection that gendered labor, in service professions in particular, is fueling our expectations for gendered AI assistants and service robots.…
In Defence of Smashing Cameras (repost)
Anonymous submission. More seriously, we are making each other vulnerable. Photographers at demonstrations will soon outnumber demonstrators, those who are willing to take action. This is something we need to…
Panama Papers Aftermath
While the revelations thus far about offshore holdings for the purpose of tax avoidance or evasion have provided us with a glimpse into the lives of those well beyond our…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is you daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday April 12, 2016. Today we are talking about Employment Law.A video posted by @wiselaw on Apr 12, 2016 at 6:14am…
To all New Yorkers, as your primary approaches
Me and the boys in SFH got together last night and did a blistering version of this here love letter to The Donald. Sing along, New York!
Minimalism
Minimalism is good. Read more. Thanks to Delaney! The post Minimalism appeared first on Things Are Good.
Why Rich Tax Dodgers Should Be Named and Shamed
The Panama Papers' scandal has revealed a steaming mountain or pyramid of corruption.Where the super rich live high off the hog, while countries deprived of tax dollars grow more and…
Going neg works
From YouTube: From the New York Times: But despite claims that campaign advertising has lost its potency, there is growing evidence that negative ads still work — and that they…
The Knives are out for Notley.
After the shoot-out at the Edmonton Corral last weekend, one of the participants was left bleeding in the dust. After the NDP delegates left town, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is…
National Volunteer Week, 2016
Anyone who knows me is well aware of the importance I place on volunteering one’s time freely and gladly for the benefit of the wider community. Without volunteers, there would…
Liberals have the progressive base on their side – can they keep it?
Liberals are often accused of running (a campaign) on the left and governing right(wing). but recent polling shows that so far, the voters on the progressive left have been rather…
Peter, Parkinson and Adams
C. Northcote Parkinson, Lawrence J. Peter, and Scott Adams are for me the ‘holy trinity’ of philosophers of modern bureaucracy, within both the public service and the corporate structure. As…
The Killer Drug and the Killer Cons
I took this picture yesterday of a humble monument next to a community clinic in Toronto.It's believed to be the first monument anywhere, to those who died of drug overdoses…
Bring out yer dead #nlpoli
In the end there was something perfectly fitting in the way New Democrats dumped their failed leader.Every pundit around and lots of New Democrats believed that Mulcair would easily pass…
NDP leadership woes
So Saskatchewan NDP leader Cam Broten has resigned after losing his seat, and federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair was voted out – though apparently he still wants to hang around…
NDP leadership woes
So Saskatchewan NDP leader Cam Broten has resigned after losing his seat, and federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair was voted out - though apparently he still wants to hang around…
NDP leadership woes
So Saskatchewan NDP leader Cam Broten has resigned after losing his seat, and federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair was voted out - though apparently he still wants to hang around…
My Stieglitz Shot
The things we do to get a good picture… One of the first very important figures to passionately endorse photography as an art form was Alfred Stieglitz, perhaps even better
Vacation Almost Over
Hello folks!So, uhm.... the lead writer (and lately only writer) on the blog went on vacation and forgot to tell anyone. And when I write, "went" I mean still on…