The Wall Street Book Everyone Should Read
Reblogged from HBR Blog Network – Harvard Business Review: These days, it’s not hard to find people who question the role that financial markets play in our economy, who argue…
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New studies show generosity and cooperation are both natural and intelligent
A new study shows a mathematical proof that generosity leads to evolutionary success. Biologists offer a mathematically based explanation for why cooperation and generosity have evolved in nature “Ever since…
The therapeutic benefits of gardening and getting your hands in the soil
Studies have shown that gardening really is therapeutic. It has been found that there are compounds in the soil that, when they strike the olfactory senses, trigger a stress-relieving relaxation…
Fukushima still spreading deadly radiation across northern hemisphere: one food can help protect you
Seaweed is a true super-food, high in essential nutrients, low carb, low calorie, and also, naturally high in iodine – and it helps protects the body from radiation. It is…
Anonymous plans million mask march on Washington
Anonymous plans Million Mask March on Washington – RT America
US government shutdown drives people against Republicans and into the arms of Obama and the Democrats
Reportedly, Americans are blaming the Republicans for the government shutdown, which most of them do not like. This plays well for the Obama government and the Democratic Party. It has…
Love, sympathy and mutual aid are natural – we have to be taught to be greedy little narcissists
During a California wildfire rescue workers ran out of crates to place rescued animals, forcing them to put a fawn and a bobcat kitten in an office together. When they…
Scarborough-Rouge Merger: Some potential questions for tonight’s tele-town hall
Tonight The Scarborough Hospital and Rouge Valley Health System are having their second public telephone town hall to discuss the benefits and risks of a merger. The first town hall…
Homeless Outreach
Carmichael Outreach sent me a press release. I like to pass those along for interesting events, so here it is. {I was also tickled that a little ol’ blogger like…
Around the Internets: Monday Jump-Off
Must-reading to keep you occupied while US legislators play Hot Potato with an extremely fragile global economy (because Teabaggers won’t be dissed by the Negro-in-Chief, natch): Plutocrats at Work: How…
CUPE video highlights the logical endpoint of PC labour polices
To hear Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak speak about it, you’d think reducing the wages and benefits of Ontario workers was a good thing. When Hudak speaks in the legislature…
Around the Internets: Monday Jump-Off
Must-reading to keep you occupied while US legislators play Hot Potato with an extremely fragile global economy (because Teabaggers won’t be dissed by the Negro-in-Chief, natch): Plutocrats at Work: How…
Mental Health – Stigmatizing your own workforce
A few weeks ago we reported on a Statistics Canada analysis that showed very little real difference in the absenteeism rate between the public and private sectors. This is likely…
Kari Polanyi-Levitt’s New Book
The much respected progressive economist, and my long time friend and intellectual soulmade, Kari Polanyi Levitt, having just turned 90, has published a book of no less than 16 scholarly…
CEO Peterkin leaves, many questions left unresolved
Bruce Peterkin has left the building. The MICs Group of Health Services has told the media that the controversial CEO of three northern Ontario hospitals no longer holds his position.…
Funding structure leaves psychologists out of team-based care
Pop Quiz: Who’s the biggest employer of psychologists in the country? If you guessed Corrections Canada you’d be absolutely correct. There’s mostly two ways to get public coverage for the…
More Collateral Damage From USia’s Wars
Rest assured that the ongoing US government shutdown (or slimdown, if one prefers the wingnut parlance) won’t stop the prescription opiates overmedicated veterans are now hooked on post Iraq/Afghanistan from…
More Collateral Damage From USia’s Wars
Rest assured that the ongoing US government shutdown (or slimdown, if one prefers the wingnut parlance) won’t stop the prescription opiates overmedicated veterans are now hooked on post Iraq/Afghanistan from…
Review: Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
How would you react if I told you it wasn’t your fault you’re fat? Not entirely, anyway. Not the way that the medical profession or society at large would have…
Government Crackdown on Golden Dawn Won’t Defeat Greek Fascism
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10812 Costas Lapavitsas on why the state crackdown on Golden Dawn fails to address the basis of their popular support. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Extreme Right, Fascism, Greece