Weekly roundup: November 7-13

Articles

Long 6-month winter comfortably above 0C from The Urban Country

Eglinton LRT's latest problem: what to do with all the dirt? from OpenFileTO

Canada had its own Greek moment from Ottawa Citizen

Where are all the female engineering students? from Ottawa Citizen

Paying top civil servants for French training is wasteful in any language from National Post

My questions for the next GOP debate from FrumForum

Tweets

Brussels sprouts? Run run run run run the other direction.

— Waddling voraciously (@City_Raccoon) November 6, 2011

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-11-08T15:51:45.000Z. Chris Selley (@cselley). CBC showing clip of Deep Impact to illustrate asteroid story. My kingdom for some serious rolling news..

https://twitter.com/mikepmoffatt/status/134339823803699200

In most countries, artists produce art and that organically creates culture. Here we fund art in line with pre-determined culture.

— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) November 9, 2011

One common dryer can eat up to eighty pounds of wool socks in a day. #littleknownfacts

— A.J. Somerset (@ajsomerset) November 12, 2011

Video

Audio

Kate Beaton interview on CBC Radio Q about her book Hark! A vagrant.