January 2010
21 posts
“I find it reprehensible that (those) who designed the Management Protocol with...”
– Renée Acoby, quoted in The Walrus (her writing is dense, complex and challenging. She is considered to be one of Canada’s most violent women.)
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In a way, this is only fitting. Toronto did, after all, inspire the comic book city Metropolis, and Superman, created by a pair of immigrants’ sons, is, in its idiosyncratic way, an assimilation story.
— Nav Purewal, Melting Plots, The Walrus
“Crises can be the midwives of serious thinking.”
– The Economist, Jan 23rd, 2010
WatchWhat Haiti feels like now: 360 degree video from CNN, truly moving
Disgusting. The TTC Union is like the parent who...
malcolmbastien:
“The Amalgamated Transit Union says it is ‘‘discouraging’’ that TTC riders did not check on the well-being of a collector at the centre of a media firestorm after he was photographed apparently asleep on the job.”
Sometimes the amount of BS you see is shocking.
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If only more newsies thought like this.
I’m reposting verbatim the first four of lolblog’s six “editorial policies of an amateur journalist,” which reflect many of the values I would like to see in journalism of all kinds.
The goal of the blog is to drive the debate. We’re politicos. We have opinions. We believe the status-quo is insufficient, and we use the public eye as a tool for change. We do not apologize...
“It’s funny the Prime Minister doesn’t get this. Instead he just...”
– Rick Mercer, on his blog.
WatchThere Will Be Brawl ended this month. In case you missed it, here’s the first episode. You can enjoy all ten hilarious, viciously noir, and deeply dorky episodes on The Escapist.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/there-will-be-brawl
“The problems we face are an excuse for us to come together.”
– Peter Block, founder of A Small Group
“Contingent workers are all, to some degree, managing their own single-person...”
– We’re All Business Owners Now - BusinessWeek
Why alpha-male baboons allow subordinates sex... →
Okay, I admit it. They had me at “sex treats.”
“Sometimes it pays to give underlings a treat. Dominant male chacma baboons allow lower-ranking males to mate with their females as a way to protect the dominant male’s own offspring in their absence.”
““Parliament has become a kind of vestigial ornament, like the monarchy,...”
– Andrew Coyne, http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/10/parliament-who-needs-it/
“I am tired of a sense that running our country is akin to a hockey game with the...”
– Facebook | Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament
(Unfortunately, that’s kind of every party. And their pundits. And their partisans.)
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