A Sense of Purpose is More Important Than Money for Workplaces
In this TED Talk Dan Ariely presents his research into what motivates people to do work and how they feel about their workplace. The findings are interesting because it’s not…
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Strange Bedfellows Indeed
The British government’s energy and climate change secretary, Ed Davey, is fighting back against climate change skeptics within the ranks of his own coalition government. Davey is a Liberal Democrat.…
A Theme Park E-Learning Application
Here’s the challenge (from the E-Learning Professionals Group): “Can anyone give me suggestions of how to blend learning objectives with ELearning. My goal is to have the user not know…
Scientists To Harper Government: It’s Time For Grown Up Conversation on Climate Change
This week twelve climate scientists and energy experts penned a letter to Canada’s Natural Resources (aka “Oil”) Minister, Joe Oliver, to express their concern about his ongoing support for building…
On party positioning
Leaving aside whether Stephen Harper’s previously-undisclosed media monitoring is actually right in substance, Brian Jean isn’t entirely wrong as to why he and other Con MPs are facing it: Conservative…
Star self-flagellation: the latest
This is starting to look like a ritual humiliation of a veteran reporter who doesn’t deserve it, at all. Oh, and the “award-winning” guy giving everyone civics lessons? His M.O.…
And now, from the world’s greatest band
I still love the Menzingers, but me (and my kids) love these guys the most. The are the best-est. They are godlike geniuses. Buy all of their records, now.
The Insular World Of The Police Mentality
I have written several posts in this blog about institutions and their many shortcomings, shortcomings that seem directly proportional to their age. The longer one exists, the more prone an…
Just goes to show, once again
You can be book-smart, but that doesn’t actually mean you are smart.
Q: Which BC political party ran attack ads, and which one didn’t?
A: If you’re a regular at this web site, you already know the answer. (Justin Trudeau, are you paying attention? Hope so.)
New column day
Here, on how all of Canada could lose out if Christy Clark’s B.C. Liberals are able to follow through on their plans to eliminate the Therapeutics Initiative which has provided…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – George Monbiot writes about the absurdity of the right-wing choice to promote inequality in the name of competition among the wealthy when…
May 8: The story that isn’t there
It seems there are two kilometres of pipeline with oil residue in it running through St. John. It’s an Irving line that that went out of use over forty years…
talking politics
I went last night to a wonderful event put on by a grassroots media collective. They wanted to encourage local writers and local activists. There was lots of good conversations.…
You Can’t Believe A Word
Andrew Coyne has an interesting take on the National Research Council’s new mandate. The NRC was originally established to do the kind of research which business could not and should…
Is God dead?
Quote: “…although the proportion of Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs is on the rise in Canada, the marked demographic trend is the increasing number of people who claim no religious…
Kremlinology 44: the 2009 Rift in Cabinet #nlpoli
Trevor Taylor left politics in 2009 in an unseemly hurry. One minute he was there. Next minute? Gone from cabinet and the House of Assembly. Very odd. Then right on…
The Mutilated Census and the Madness of Stephen Harper
He had done a lot of monstrous things, before he woke up one morning and decided to gut the census.For no sane reason.But for me it marked the moment when…
Fixing Athabasca U: a chance for tough-guy Tom Lukaszuk to do something constructive
Athabasca University’s isolated headquarters in winter. Below: Athabasca U President Frits Pannekoek and Alberta Advanced Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk. Athabasca University’s Faculty Association called yesterday for the institution’s president to…