Weekly roundup: October 17 - 23

Articles

The Time-to-Degress Conundrum from The Chronicle of Higher Education

The mandatory minimum mess from Ottawa Citizen

The secret to cooking like a chef from Maclean's

Our tax code is pockmarked with costly exemptions from The Globe and Mail

Ombudsman decries habitual denial of damage claims from Toronto Star

Behind the Pipes: Into the Arms of the NHL from Grantland

Police budget 2012: How Bill Blair beat Rob Ford from Ford for Toronto

Tweeting farmers bridge gap between farm, table from CBC.ca

Argentina's deb default: Gauchos and gadflies from The Economist

Bick's Pickle co-founder dies from Toronto Star

Tweets

https://twitter.com/#!/arnabdotorg/status/125524642617233408

https://twitter.com/acoyne/status/126017005177409538

https://twitter.com/#!/ivortossell/status/126888914442129408

https://twitter.com/aradwanski/status/127406856313376770

https://twitter.com/andrew_leach/status/127467910460485632

https://twitter.com/#!/stephenfgordon/status/127843637529817088

Video

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Sxf4lQ0w0]

^ Really just a song, but still good.