January 2009
11 posts
How England is different from Canada (#12 in a series)
Here are two of today’s headlines stemming from a proposal by the Ministry of Health:
Health chief Liam Donaldson wants to ban under-15s drinking
Children aged 15 to 17 should only drink once a week, parents told
Drinking alcohol is only banned for ‘people’ under 5.
I found this article about Vancouver radio competition (Stu Derdyn, Province) very interesting. Particularly, this quote:
Jeff O’Neill, The Fox: “You know what, not everybody out there wants to listen to a dance song or American Idol, and we don’t do that and never will. We believe that working-class guys are informed, want an irreverent look at public affairs, and aren’t all mulleted...
The new White House website has a blog →
It also has an en espanol link and a Creative Commons license.
The Harper's Index of the Bush era →
Number of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and North African men detained in the U.S. in the eight weeks after 9/11: 1,182
Number of them ever charged with a terrorism-related crime: 0
Number of members of the rock band Anthrax who said they hoarded Cipro so as to avoid an “ironic death”: 1
And so much more. Excellent.
Very touchy Vancouver landlord
I don’t vouch for the veracity of this ad. But if it is a Craigslist ad, it is automatically funny like airline food or problems at the DMV.
All the tenants I interview aren’t good enough
I am a born again Christian. Why is this a problem for people????! I have a house that’s MINE and I PAID FOR IT. I also have a basement apartment for rent. It’s a great space for...
Apparently the future of journalism is outsourcing.
The Telegraph in London is now sending its travel, motoring and money pages along with parts of the Sunday Telegraph to a journalism clearing house in Australia (Pagemasters, which is part owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and by Fairfax, the other major Aussie publisher) where it is edited and layed out then sent back to London...
Fun with math. Former Vancouver mayor Philip Owen says that the current city council is misrepresenting the Olympic Village “as a loss for the city” because Vancouver is now funding the $875m project rather than the sainted private sector.
“That might be true if the land and the 850 units, when finished, are worth nothing,” Owen said. “The spin is just absolutely...