Day: October 7, 2012

• More Margaret #Wente Plagiarism, copying from writer and blogger Nicholas Carr. Good work, Media Culpa http://t.co/0o80RZ1Y #
• NDP leads in Environics poll, Ontario numbers striking – @308dotcom http://t.co/kQcqhCY1 #cdnpoli #
• The doctor office waiting room has a computer monitor turned to the waiting patients showing us a slideshow of someone's Egypt vacation #
• Awesome. The monitor is now giving us a doctor autobiography… #
• Ooh, now a short history of neurology. This doctor's office is very entertaining! #
• This is such good news @cusnaum, congratulations RT @ChairFNHC: Protection of Marpole Midden celebrated by Musqueam http://t.co/u77xWlzk #
• Found at the doctor's office. A @macleansmag cover from 2007 warning about the rising loonie #cdnpoli http://t.co/t1SCRbSs #
• What corruption in the `developed`world looks like: US Corporation-lobbyist-politician revolving doors http://t.co/BIWrtnli #
• Rob Anders wouldnot be in the news if it were not for the fine conservatives of Calgary West http://t.co/VyvYIxFk #cdnpoli #
• Canada's privacy commissioner: 25% of all Cdn websites improperly share personal info, won't tell you which. http://t.co/6M3IShK9 #cdnpoli #
• How the Harper government has systematically stymied the Parliamentary Budget Office http://t.co/l06HUwXO #cdnpoli #
• +1 RT @janniaragon: You're late to the party. We've been live tweeting at confs for 3 years+! http://t.co/b07NbDZK @insidehighered #lovehe #
• And notion that what one presents at an academic conference is somehow access controlled? If waiting to publish, don't present #
• Victoria city councillor Ben Isitt plans to run for NDP nomination for Victoria, he has 12 days http://t.co/vlwxfGg3 #yyj #
• .@askessler @martinheintzel There is little consensus on how much methane leaks, and it matters a lot. http://t.co/gcco0yqd #
• So, @edwardp or @darcy_l , any idea what the voting rules for the NDP Victoria election are going to be? @razzlem thinks y'all know it all:) #
• added to my @pocket RT @beckycory: Exciting, but I think mostly scary. Data as the new form of power currency: Wired UK http://t.co/NdWLEUGF #
• Greater Victoria a great place to live – if you can afford it : @timescolonist http://t.co/f7Aqkzea #yyj #
• The Scourge of Garbage-In, Garbage-Out Research on Innovation – @mattyglesias on patents as an innovation marker http://t.co/2qMWcBbZ #
• Report: Most tropical deforestation now caused by the mafia http://t.co/LmO3VBES ia @bradplumer #
• "@ghoberg: game changer? First nations band files treaty rights challenge against Shell http://t.co/3HhwmlRE #oilsands #indigenous #tarsands #
• Just anecdotal. But this year's bus pass swipe failure rate on #yyj @bc_transit is really high. #
• RT @tqmurdock Saving seeds with genetic diversity of crucial importance to maintain future adaptation options #pnwcsc12 http://t.co/mjKAA3gF #
• RT @politicsrespun: Musqueam Burial Ground Win Makes the Developer Look Brutally Ignorant http://t.co/RhGLHPu0 #bcpoli #vanpoli #Musqueam #
• Food safety: It's not about legislation, it's about ability/willingness to enforce, govern http://t.co/y8fFu0XO #cdnpoli #
• Wow. RT @frank_leonard: new RCMP HQ in Surrey has $1B price tag and some unhappy Mayors: http://t.co/GxoI8mTY #bcpoli #yvr #
• Aah technology. It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone 3D-Prints a Gun http://t.co/JcjHEYEq via @3QD #
• Provinces ill-equipped to fill endangered species gap: @ecojustice_ca Report. http://t.co/pwumIcsk #cdnpoli #bcpoli #
• Head explodes RT @kate_sheppard: "Why the fuck are we still making the candidates' wives bake cookies?" http://t.co/Uxb3HGPh via @jezebel #
• "@mkonnikova "Correlation does not imply causation, but it sure as hell provides a hint." Thanks for writing @danengber http://t.co/D8Gtl7Pa #
• .@DocumentCloud – Turning documents into data, very neat http://t.co/3tvpypWL @thesarahmundy @sherwinarnott #
• Why BC's #LNG natural gas gamble could go bust before it goes boom, from @GlobeandMail http://t.co/BKU0Z9nG #bcpoli #
• "@daeaves: Ah, @globeandmail working hard not win me back from the #wente fiasco with this polarizing & stupid survey: http://t.co/XgXV2j68 #
• Good god. RT @edyong209: Oh. Balls. Mosquitoes adapting to bed-nets by biting at diff times of day http://t.co/EG3Okj8v #
• Will need big regulation fueled infrastructure shift RT @guydauncey: Why Electric Cars Are Our Future http://t.co/HvHENhxg via @HuffPostTech #
• Beef, it's what's for E Coli RT @impolitical: This Costco info on XL recall just floors me. http://t.co/JuER0yCv #cdnpoli #xlfoods #
• Another reminder that a lot of Israel Iran sabre rattling is domestic politics in the two countries. http://t.co/zbqTgNHF #
• That Flawed Stanford Study – @Bittman on why the Organic vs conventional study was bad science http://t.co/0Ys3wgYd via @askessler #
• The extent of, and the positions of power occupied by believers is not RT @dgardner: Crazy is bipartisan. http://t.co/RbevuGwu thx @keithjs #
• Here's an old idea for the @NDP and unions to champion: Worker representaton on corporate boards http://t.co/XuobsKWG #cdnpoli #
• MT @la_cornish: very convenient that entire dept violated privacy, more like bc govt cutting off vital drug research http://t.co/Oz0gdYTQ #
• Cue light sensitivity headache syndrome. Researchers turn lights into world’s fastest wireless with Li-Fi: @ArsTechnica http://t.co/ONYvZdS5 #
• Top pharmacologist tells BC Health Ministry to stop bashing independent drug researchers http://t.co/5w18Hf1h #bcpoli #
• In which @stephenfgordon, while asserting xenophobia, doesn't mention that CNOOC is the Chinese government http://t.co/MJ9PWgB7 #cdnpoli #
• Important to assert roles of xenophobia and racism in politics, but surely, foreign government ownership of domestic companies is different #
• RT @lizborkowski: Unicef polio vaccinators in South Waziristan kidnapped then released. http://t.co/2pwyT9CI via @Laurie_Garrett #
• Apparently, anti-foreign bias is not xenophobia, I can be called for reading comprehension #FAIL for it, back to remedial English I go! #
• XL Foods delayed information, Canadian inspectors who don't have to power to insist. http://t.co/r0ztAXN9 #cdnpoli #
• RT @josh_wingrove: How can the CFIA know if things are working without actually firing a machine up? And you need staff to do that. #cdnpoli #
• RT @nikiashton: In Question Period to call on the Harper Gov for National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women. #mmiw #cdnpoli #
• RT @mattyglesias:@whynationsfail argue that academic economics has no need for accurate data in its models: http://t.co/Tns3u6WM #
• Why are people dying on Victoria's streets? Don Evans of Our Place asks and answers http://t.co/cTDlfc46 #yyj #
• "@panamajack: Heading to UVIC tonight to hear Columbia's Timothy Mitchell on Carbon Democracy. Highly recommended. http://t.co/LsLoW6tZ #yyj #
• Rob Anders:Trans rights Bill "intended to give transgendered men access to women’s public washroom facilities" http://t.co/XYDh0mFr #cdnpoli #
• Court rules BC election gag law unconstitutional despite changes http://t.co/vnGzs1qE via @TheTyee #bcpoli The law had its intended effect #
• Indeed! RT @sherwinarnott: This looks very promising http://t.co/h7NUjVIF #WordPress #
• This @storify debate between @ArmineYalnizyan and @acoyne is a must read on Canada #inequality http://t.co/1koChKX1 #cdnpoli #
• The aforementioned @storify debate also had some good contributions from @kevinmilligan #
• Making a farce of Parliament – Four #CPC MPs on the "carbon tax" – @aaronwherry http://t.co/bK40BRsB #cdnpoli #
• Mass transit: The benefits of being taken for a ride: Exactly how I feel, wish everyone could #yyjtransit http://t.co/PLPtEoSc #
• Wow. Non-Christian prison chaplains eliminated by Harper government http://t.co/u2Ma12ih #cdnpoli #
• RT @evgenymorozov: High frequency traders’ claims refuted by studies http://t.co/2nB0Un7g Algorithms may not be improving market efficiency #
• So happy this racist is losing again. RT @mattyglesias: Time for George Allen to call someone a funny name: http://t.co/rCB3E58w #
• BC Liberals Mount Constitutional Challenge to Keep Records Secret: @TheTyee http://t.co/5yyamkQC #bcpoli #opengov #
• via @vcusnaum: Chlorine from private swimming pool kills fish in #musqueam Vancouver's last salmon-bearing stream http://t.co/QiE8J4qQ #
• RT @cupebcnews: Ouch! Prince George Citizen slams KPMG "core review" in #PrinceGeorge http://t.co/W6Z1WzGO #bcpoli #
• 300 sq feet micro-condos in Victoria, anyone? http://t.co/8vj6QqZe #yyj via @timescolonist #
• Via @ericmjohnson: National Post's @fullcomment reproduced my @Slate article w/o permission: http://t.co/tvkukFIH Is this theft? #cdnmedia #
• You heard it here: Northern Gateway’s dead – Jeffrey Simpson in @GlobeandMail http://t.co/LjWSeAD0 #tarsands #oilsands #
• Actually, we have heard in many other places including my head that the Northern Gateway was dead, but whatever. #
• I have not googled gangnam yet… #
• Can meat factories be safe, at 4,000 cows a day, 3,000 steaks a minute? – @GlobeandMail http://t.co/Hrh5bx2Y #cdnpoli #
• Hope they settle. @bc_transit Bus drivers in #yyj poised to strike next week http://t.co/Fdl2YcQt #yyjtransit @timescolonist #
• What are they spraying? I love me a good conspiracy #chemtrails http://t.co/we4ZxQuS #

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