Signed up to vote!
And you should, too! I haven’t declared who I’m supporting yet, but will soon. I’ll be chatting with Brian Dunstan at SNN this weekend for our usual post-debate debrief. Wild…
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George Tindal, in his 95th year
George Tindal dedicates a garden — near the 6th green of the Brockville Country Club golf course — to the memory of his wife Ruth in July 2012. George W.…
This makes me happy
Just weeks away to Target stores opening in Toronto! I unabashedly admit to being a Target junkie. My kids mock me for it but whatevs, as my daughter would say.…
The Club: Music
I went to a show tonight with Jesse, after buying a monthly membership at CrashBang Labs (which is in the same building as The Club at The Exchange on 8th…
Why you should care about March 4
This winter has been the season of our discontent. One after another hospitals have been announcing cuts to staff, beds and needed programs. On Monday communities are planning to do…
Pharmacare 2020: A remedy for an accident of history
VANCOUVER – Canada’s Medicare system stops the minute a doctor writes a prescription. On the second day of Pharmacare 2020, the talk turned to how we get to a quality…
Chuck Hagel: Damaged Goods?
The Week perfectly summarizes the GOP’s rationale behind the great Chuck Hagel freakout: Hagel, a former GOP senator, won by the narrowest margin of any defense secretary since the job…
Chuck Hagel: Damaged Goods?
The Week perfectly summarizes the GOP’s rationale behind the great Chuck Hagel freakout: Hagel, a former GOP senator, won by the narrowest margin of any defense secretary since the job…
Boost the Minimum Wage, Boost the Economy
A version of this article appeared today in the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab. (This version includes references to the debate plus charts and graphs from data specially tabulated from…
In Their Shell
The Duck and Cover propaganda has worked maybe. There’s an entire generation prone to thinking they can protect themselves from massive danger by covering their head with their arms until…
Killer Robots From Earth
I grew up thinking that Killer Robots From Venus was a pretty amusing song. Now that we’re living in 2013, the ‘future’, we have to seriously contemplate the implications of…
Adapt (to the Natural World) or Die
Buffett-Heinz Deal Sends Urgent Warning To Food Industry To Cut Costs Reuters | Posted: 02/22/2013 7:25 pm EST | Updated: 02/24/2013 10:41 am EST From Huffpost Feb 24, 2013 Even…
How Productivity Falls When Planes Takeoff and Land
Late in the last calender year, the U.S. FCC (Federal Communications Commission) sent a letter to the FAA (U.S. Federal Aviation Administration) advising it to “enable greater use of tablets,…
Oiled Up
There’s a suspicious situation uncovered at the UofR, by CBC. IPAC, the CO(2) CCS project was audited, and there were apparent conflicts of interest in how some of the money…
ReThink Meat
Meat fraud is taking place all around us. Most people probably can’t tell the difference between similar looking meats sold in stores, were it not for the labeling. Fish fraud…
More of Lafleche Main St. Destroyed
The last of the old Lafleche Red & White grocery store, and the former butcher shop that adjoined it to the north, has burned down. Most recently it was M.O.M…
Russian Dash-cameras
The meteor strike last week made more people realize the prevalence of dash-cams in Russia. I’d seen shocking vehicle footage on YouTube before, one of a brick flying from a…
72
Had he lived, he would be 72 today. Happy birthday, Dad.