How to Critique Wealth Inequality without Caring about Poor People
This video on wealth inequality in the United States is currently making the rounds on social media – in my universe anyway – and it got me thinking. It has…
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Thinking Is Not Hard
Thinking is not hard to do, but some people treat it like others should do it for them. Clicking that link may be painful, as it has details of a…
Kingston to launch P3 plebiscite campaign today – and we’re part of it
Moshe Safdie is one of Canada’s most celebrated architects. Best known for Habitat 67, a model community housing complex built for Expo 67, Safdie is also the architect behind both…
*hack hack cough cough*
Susan on the Soapbox is sick. Stay tuned. Professor Matthew Hay … assailed by the furies of typhoid, measles, influenza, whooping cough and scarlet fever (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
How one nice guy made a lousy day a little bit better.
This is the true story of how a bad day became a pretty good day thanks to one act of kindness. On Saturday morning, I thought I would join my…
Who Benefits from M&A?
The Globe and Mail (Feb 28) reports that “in the past few years…Canada’s resource plays have attracted international attention, and Canada has punched above its weight in generating fees for…
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…
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…