Weekly roundup: October 31 - November 6

Articles

You don't know Alberta from Ottawa Citizen

College has been oversold from Marginal Revolution

Taking care of business cards: Rob Ford's hypocrisy from The GridTO

Make energy policy about energy, not jobs from The Economist

Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities from 43 Folders

Was John Crosbie's suicide bomber joke funny? from National Post

Canada's redistribution policy: take from the rich, give to the... median? from Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Headline job numbers don't tell the real story from The Globe and Mail

New charity, same old cant from Toronto Star

In Parkdale: A dead cat and a city that works from Toronto Standard

The G8 legacy: Just the smoothest home-reno project ever? from The Globe and Mail

In the future, no speeder will be able to evade this camera from Toronto Star

Five myths about the world's population from Washington Post

Tweets

I've run the experiment and no, the subway doesn't arrive faster if you look down the tunnel. So just, you know, wait. #caseclosed

— Matthew Browning (@CabbagetownMatt) October 31, 2011

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-11-01T14:28:02.000Z. Matt Elliott (@GraphicMatt). My platform: Let's shut down all government programs that don't directly contribute to fending off the looming apocalypse..

People, why do you send me things like your CV in Word. I want to read it, not edit it. Oh, wait...editing this is fun!

— Andrew Leach (@andrew_leach) November 2, 2011

You eventually learn that true priorities are like arms; if you think you have more than a couple, you're either lying or crazy.

— Merlin Mann (@hotdogsladies) April 10, 2009

The airport of my dreams has no TVs, perfect coffee, healthy food, and all boarding passes / immigration forms are passport sized.

— Craig Mod (@craigmod) November 5, 2011

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