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Weekly roundup: May 28 - June 3

03 June 2012

Articles

Calgary Reconsidered from The Walrus [This is longer and well worth the read.]

Parents to blame for childhood obesity epidemic from National Post

Rookie cop takes heat for arresting off-duty officer from Toronto Star

Politicians, not Catholics, deserve Ontario’s wrath for funding religious schools from The Globe and Mail

Goodbye from Lee Richardson from David Akin’s on the Hill

Quebec’s self-appointed defenders take issue from Maclean’s

Re-education of David Wilks a lesson on the decline of parliament from National Post

Edmonton teacher suspended for giving students zeros from Calgary Herald

To defeat poverty, you have to define it from National Post

Bizarre crash between planes form both U.S. air safety agencies leads to call for Canadian help from National Post

Tweets

Screenshot from Twitter. 2012-05-31T10:50:00.000Z. Doug Saunders (@DougSaunders). Hashtagging every noun will neither win friends nor influence people..

[tweet https://twitter.com/npsteve/status/208302445787480064]

[tweet https://twitter.com/npsteve/status/208611595914452992]

^re: station flooding

Screenshot from Twitter. 2012-06-01T22:45:10.000Z. Sharilyn Johnson (@sharilynj). Well, at least *someone* is happy about the Union Station flood. #toronto http://t.co/iMGR5A6H.

Screenshot from Twitter. 2012-06-03T00:47:18.000Z. George Roter (@geroter). Awesome msg from Prof John Nychka to companies complaining they need to train new grads: Are they good at learning? Yes? Then I did my job!.

Video

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARXfQzfl9EQ]