Plastic Is The Problem
I am officially on a mission now: plastic has to go. No more plastic in my life unless it can be used multiple times and has some kind of recyclable…
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Worst President Possible
Who puts children in cages?Not men assured living wages.A #FightforFifteen?A quaint little dream,While American Dreams shrink in stages.#WhereAreTheChildren?#ChildrenConcentrationCamps.This started when?President Orange Gramps.* *Obama and Bush share some blame. — John…
Not Dead, Yet
Well, who knew that activating a new WordPress account for research purposes would unlock a long-forgotten old relic from the past like this? Five plus years ago suddenly seems like…
Earthgauge Radio – June 12, 2018
https://earthgauge.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/mixdown-18-06-11.mp3 A weekly Canadian environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Join me here every week or subscribe to the podcast. On the show this…
The End of the Beginning of Digital Service Units
Balancing Users, Platforms, and Buy-in Strategies for National Digital Teams This week, digital HKS is partnering with Public Digital to convene digital services units from around the world. We will…
With friends like these …
Donald Trump – the sexist, racist, xenophobic, dictatorial, megalomaniac leader of the free world – has finally accomplished something that no other American president has ever done. Trump has single-handedly…
“That’s their business, not Canada’s”
Is Jim Carr, Minister of Screwing Up Industry talking about Bombardier or Kinder Morgan? It’s a trick question, he said that about both. Last year McParland wrote the following hilarity…
25% of Ontario Conservative Candidates Under Investigation
Doug Ford’s candidates. Nearly one-in-four is a potential criminal. Great.
Teaching Policy People to Code at the Harvard Kennedy School
Part 1: hypothesis & goals Context This summer, digital HKS is excited to launch an experimental pilot that will help MPP and MPA students at the Harvard Kennedy School of…
Conversation on ‘Digital Deceit’
Last month I had the pleasure of interviewing Ben Scott about is great New America report “Digital Deceit: The Technologies Behind Precision Propaganda on the Internet” at a Brookfield Institute…
Behind the Screens: Who decides what I see online?
A short video that the awesome Taylor Gunn and Civix Canada made with me about social platforms, journalism and democracy, for use in Canadian classrooms, focused on grade nine students:
Conservatives: This Is What You’re Voting For
A douchebag that will park in a handicap spot so he doesn’t have to walk more than 20 feet to pitch his snake oil:
On Thursday, I Will Vote NDP. I Hope You Will Too.
Vote NDP. Don’t be fooled by Wynne’s last plea. We must stop Ford.
The Bank of Canada should target full employment: 61 economists
On May 28th, 61 Canadian economists (myself included) signed the following letter urging the federal government to instruct the Bank of Canada to consider full employment and not only inflation…
Wynne Loses It For the Liberals
This past weekend was a nightmare was a grand finale for the Liberal Party of Ontario. As many people know, Kathleen Wynne bailed on the party this weekend and is…
The populist answer to Italy’s woes? Bring back the technocrats
The populist answer to Italy’s woes? Bring back the technocrats https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/03/populist-answer-to-italian-woes-more-teechnocrats?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress
Corporate interest outranks public interest
Many citizens — although not In-Sights readers — will be shocked to learn that credits owed natural gas producers soared by more than $1 billion from April to November 2018.…
Unemployment at the Heart of Italy’s Economic Crisis
Unemployment at the Heart of Italy’s Economic Crisis — Read on therealnews.com/stories/unemployment-at-the-heart-of-italys-economic-crisis
Are some more indigenous than others?
Either we are all ‘from here’ or none of us are. If academics and government can refer to our first nations as indigenous then they must have changed the meaning…
What Do You Call A Pitch Without A Plan?
Three of the four official parties have submitted fully costed plans for their promises in the 2018 election. What makes the Ford crew immune from this kind of scrutiny?