Weekly roundup: September 26 - October 2

Articles

Paying the price for suburban sprawl from Edmonton Journal

TEDx draws thinkers, dreamers from National Post

It's Captain CBC and the Radio Production Spiders! from National Post

Was Trudeau a disaster? Yes from Ottawa Citizen

Was Trudeau a disaster? No from Ottawa Citizen

Statscan's budget should be increased by $100-million from The Globe and Mail

Mexico [City] mulls two-year marriages, drawing ire of Catholic Church from The Globe and Mail

Golden exchange by silver-tongued MPs from CBC.ca

Universities aren't about teaching v. research, they're about teaching and research from The Globe and Mail

Bet you can't just eat one from National Post

Alberta's October surprise from Maclean's

Tweets

https://twitter.com/mikepmoffatt/status/118647600420360193

Delay at #TTC Rosedale due to subway system signals & electronics achieving cybernetic consciousness & becoming self-aware has now cleared.

— Bert Xanadu (@MovieMayor) September 27, 2011

people have to ask themselves: Can we get a gov't that still allows people to bend into laundry machines? tough questions. #ondb8

— colin horgan (@cfhorgan) September 27, 2011

The percentage of municipal water lost because of leaks is estimated to be at 20%. @FCM_online #auma

— TheAUMA (@TheAUMA) September 28, 2011

^ This is a generously low estimate based on the literature I have read.

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-09-29T16:11:35.000Z. Colby Cosh (@colbycosh). If we're not allowed to confuse schoolchildren, we're certainly not going to be able to teach them calculus..

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-10-01T03:15:04.000Z. CultureShark (@tinarasmussen). #haikus are easy; sometimes they don't make sense; refrigerator.

The premier of Alberta is a centrist human rights lawyer who once advised Joe Clark and worked for UN: It's Ezra Levant's worst nightmare.

— Dan Gardner (@dgardner) October 2, 2011

GOVERNMENTS DO NOT CREATE JOBS. Unless they're actually increasing the number of public-sector employees.

— Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) October 2, 2011

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