Weekly roundup: October 17 - 23
23 October 2011Articles
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
Bibliolepsy (n.) : The sudden, immense desire to take a nap when reviewing / drafting a research paper.
— Arnab Nandi (@arnabdotorg) October 16, 2011
It's not that the lunatics have take over the asylum, it's that the idiots have handed them the keys.
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) October 17, 2011
Nice lady in the seat behind me on the streetcar: "What is that thing?" "It's an old iPhone." "An iPhone. And is that... the Internet?"
— Ivor Tossell (@ivortossell) October 20, 2011
Three of the four erswthile ministers defeated in their ridings are women. Does that make voters sexist, too?
— Adam Radwanski (@aradwanski) October 21, 2011
Can you imagine if we had a Canadian Gasoline Board, dedicated to delivering higher prices for gas to producers. The left would love it!
— Andrew Leach (@andrew_leach) October 21, 2011
The role of *any* industry is *not* to provide large incomes to those who work there. It's to make things that other people want to buy.
— Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) October 22, 2011
Video
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^ Really just a song, but still good.