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Sunday, August 28, 2016
How Toronto saved the North American streetcar
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Solar Delivers Cheapest Electricity ‘Ever, Anywhere, By Any...
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Canada was joined at the Hip - thanks to the CBC
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Saturday, August 20, 2016
Watching Canada’s Biggest Rock Band Say a Dramatic Goodbye
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Thursday, August 11, 2016
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
An American Authoritarian
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Monday, August 01, 2016
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
The Republicans waged a 3-decade war on government. They got Trump. - Vox
The Republicans waged a 3-decade war on government. They got Trump. - Vox:
The Republican Party has become an insurgent outlier in American politics — ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
Monday, July 11, 2016
The American Dream Is Alive in Finland - The Atlantic
The American Dream Is Alive in Finland - The Atlantic:
“What Finland and its neighbors do is actually walk the walk of opportunity that America now only talks,”
Saturday, June 25, 2016
The New Yorker's Brexit Cover Is Perfect: Gothamist
The New Yorker's Brexit Cover Is Perfect: Gothamist:
The United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union has been perfectly parodied by The New Yorker's Barry Blitt, whose latest funny illustration, "Silly Walk Off A Cliff," will adorn the cover of next week's magazine:
Friday, June 24, 2016
A tragic split | The Economist
A tragic split | The Economist:
HOW quickly the unthinkable became the irreversible. A year ago few people imagined that the legions of Britons who love to whinge about the European Union—silly regulations, bloated budgets and pompous bureaucrats—would actually vote to leave the club of countries that buy nearly half of Britain’s exports. Yet, by the early hours of June 24th,�it was clear that voters had ignored the warnings of economists, allies and their own government and, after more than four decades in the EU, were about to step boldly into the unknown.
Sunday, June 12, 2016
Toronto is poised to become the next great producer of tech startups | TechCrunch
Toronto is poised to become the next great producer of tech startups | TechCrunch:
Most people don’t realize�Toronto is the fourth-largest city in North America (only New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are larger) and produces the most engineering-focused university graduates each year. There are 150,000 full-time students enrolled in universities throughout the Greater Toronto Area, all within 90 minutes of the city center.
Sunday, June 05, 2016
Watching Rocky II with Muhammad Ali | Interviews | Roger Ebert
Watching Rocky II with Muhammad Ali | Interviews | Roger Ebert
This is a quick good read with some insight to Ali circa 1979.
Wednesday, May 04, 2016
Nine years of censorship : Nature News
Nine years of censorship : Nature News:
The crackdown on government scientists in Canada began in 2006, after Stephen Harper of the Conservative Party was elected prime minister.
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
You have no idea how hardcore Harriet Tubman really was
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Monday, April 25, 2016
Australian politician blames fracking after he sets river ablaze with a lighter - The Washington Post
Australian politician blames fracking after he sets river ablaze with a lighter - The Washington Post:
Some people want to watch the world burn. Others —�like Jeremy Buckingham, a member of the Australian Parliament —�will settle for rivers.
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Monday, April 11, 2016
Toyota's Setsuna is an amazing wooden concept car designed to last generations | The Verge
Toyota's Setsuna is an amazing wooden concept car designed to last generations | The Verge:
And as a work of art, Toyota is thinking of the Setsuna as something you'd want to pass down to your kids —�not as a beater first car, but as a family heirloom.
Sunday, April 03, 2016
Zaha Hadid, 1950-2016: an appreciation
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