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…
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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.
Nicaragua Day 9: “From Misery to Poverty”
MANAGUA – At 5:30 am the sun is rising over the Las Mercedes industrial park. The walkway into the park is long, at times multiple railings appear as if organizing…
Appointed Trustee in Cowichan. BC? East of Eden…
Cowichan school district eyes closures in wake of deficit CBC News Posted: Feb 14, 2013 8:03 AM PT Last Updated: Feb 14, 2013 9:22 AM PT Eden Hawthornwaite,the fired past…
SGI Bike Uprising
Doesn’t SGI know it’s not cool to cause an uprising amongst those most likely to ride motorcycles up and down the streets of SGI brass? The increase in motorcycle insurance…
Nicaragua Day 8 – Fear of flying
MANAGUA – Outside the Managua airport we were met by a representative from the Best Western who asked about our flight. The Best Western Mercedes is located across the street…
NOT a “threat to national security”
The Conservative government is out of control. The Guardian UK newspaper confirms what environmentalists have already suspected (since the Conservatives have openly accused them previously): This Conservative government regards environmentalists…
The “Tone at the Top” from two perspectives: Richard Nixon and the AHS
When Richard Nixon told David Frost than an illegal activity is not illegal “when the president does it” he confirmed what we’d all suspected: the “tone at the top” as…
Nicaragua Day 7: Some bumps along the road
SANTA MARTA – We were thankful for the rain. Without it we would have been forced to choose between the dust or the heat on the small Toyota bus as…
#ForwardOnClimate Support in Regina: Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
Stephen McDavid interviewed by CBC/SRC about climate change action: Stephen explains that the pipeline is a line in the sand. Using it, is crossing that line. I’ll explain why there…