Weekly roundup: May 14-20

Posted: May 20, 2012 | Author: Daley | Filed under: link |Leave a comment »

Articles

Mario Batali a hungry chef on food stamp challenge from Associated Press

How Yahoo killed Flickr and lost the Internet from Gizmodo

Test train begins rolling on $1.4 billion west LRT line from Calgary Herald

Egypt’s presidential debate was a historic triumph for democracy. So why did we ignore it? from National Post

A call for Canadian charities to become more politically active from Toronto Star

Jim Flaherty calls a family meeting [about EI reform] from National Post

RCMP conducted five-month national security probe into leaked F-35 story from Winnipeg Free Press

Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair must own up to G20 mistakes or step down from Toronto Star [I agree with the Post’s Chris Selley that he should both own up and then step down, not do one or the other.]

What would a Canada of 100 million feel like? More comfortable, better served, better defended from The Globe and Mail

Quebec’s protest crackdown: It’s not just rights that make it wrong from Maclean’s

Tweets

I found a "Yellow Pages" on my doorstep. It seems some misguided chap tried to print out the whole damn Google!
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Matthew Might (@mattmight) May 16, 2012

RT @calgarylibrary: “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury
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TJ Kendon (@tjkendon) May 18, 2012

Police called to Don River near Bloor. Pierre Berton spotted making love in a canoe. At least that's what he called it. Some shots fired.
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Bert Xanadu (@MovieMayor) May 18, 2012