Cichlids
Microposts
Refreshed
Pine Point
Tree climbing
More forklift
Fork lift
Concentrating
Corn
French fries
Ribfest
Lounging
Hoodie
Reunited
Tired Owen
Decorating the tree
When children decorate
In an online world, there are many more of us to watch them than there were of them to watch us. The technology was bound to work against those who value privacy most – but it was only this year we learned those privacy-lovers are very often governments.
Just watch us: The utopian dream of total openness - The Globe and Mail (via Instapaper)
After all, what could more certain (or cherished!) than your tough-minded, critical and enlightened self?
Science, the cruel stranger - The Globe and Mail (via Instapaper)
Toronto’s latte classes may look down on you if you move to Guelph. But these days, even Guelph’s got latte.
A tale of two Torontos - The Globe and Mail (via Instapaper)
It was time for some “blue collar” people to run city hall – says a millionaire putting the seals of office around the neck of another millionaire. Time to get the “artsy” people out of city hall – says a public-broadcasting television comedian. Time for a fresh new start – and the “lefty pinkos” can put that in their pipe, setting the scene for four years of gracelessness, thuggishness and pointless conflict, so it would seem.
Don Cherry, the eye-opener - The Globe and Mail (via Instapaper)
Last, there should be appointed a Minister of Opportunity Costs, whose sole responsibility would be to remind his colleagues around the cabinet table that nothing is free, that to favour one industry is to penalize every other. No doubt they will be astonished to hear it. Every single time.
A grasping riot of mutual pocket-pickers - Andrew Coyne - Macleans.ca (via Instapaper)
Insist that a single percent of risk is 1 percent too much when it comes to terror and American lives, and then demand that those who feel otherwise be dealt with punitively, if they won’t shut up.
How our “security” obsession costs us - National security - Salon.com (via Instapaper)
Halloween 2010
Toronto’s newly elected mayor identified that anger and the anxiety. Rob Ford fed into it and preyed on it, telling voters in the simplest terms possible that the current crop of politicians were to blame for all their problems, that there were easy solutions that required no sacrifices, that soon they would be able to pay less to their government and get better services in return.
Dalton McGuinty’s reckoning with the days of wrath - The Globe and Mail (via Instapaper)
Southbrook Pumpkin Patch
Most Canadians are simply not disturbed by the questions they are asked on the mandatory long-form census. There is no groundswell of opposition. There is not even a ripple. According to nearly everyone who has expressed an informed opinion, including two former chief statisticians at Statistics Canada, the voluntary replacement will be less accurate and hence less useful. It also costs more.