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

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.