We need to stop Canada’s involvement in the #TPP. We’d lose 20 years of public domain & culture, hit walls in medicine availability, and more. #cdnpoli Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership really a good deal for Canada? Or is it just ‘NAFTA on steroids’? | National Post ... continue reading

70 reasons Harper and the Conservatives should not have been in power and should not continue to hold any power in our Country. Get and Share the Harper Abuse of Power Compendium | The Tyee ... continue reading

Disturbing decree: Japan is abolishing its universities’ social science and humanities programs. | Times Higher Education This was posted on Google+ ... continue reading

We ignore the liberal arts at our peril – Universities Canada ... continue reading

A new stem-cell trial is getting underway for treating type 1 diabetes. Right now donations to JDRF are getting matched, so whatever you can give would be great! It will automatically get doubled. http://goo.gl/bW9mmF Double Your Impact/ Doublez votre impact Event landing page for Double Your Impact/ Doublez votre impact This was posted on Google+ ... continue reading

Stop Harper’s Conservatives from bringing Canada into the TPP. It’s bad for copyright & intellectual liberty. Leaked Trans-Pacific Partnership draft would force Canada to rework copyright, critics say ... continue reading

This just passed overhead. As the thunder boomed my son awake, he faulted “that superhero guy” (meaning Thor). ... continue reading

Now we need bumblebee movers. Climate change is killing off bumblebees: study ... continue reading

Interview with Piketty offers straightforward and rational points. Thomas Piketty: ‘Germany Has Never Repaid its Debts. It Has No Right to Lecture Greece’ ... continue reading

Support fair pricing for library ebooks #FairEbookPrices Fair EBook Prices Long Overdue for Libraries ... continue reading

Could we do without cause and effect? –“ Mathias Frisch –“ Aeon ... continue reading

There’s a good point in this article about the amount of work required for inventorying millions of items. I feel like there are things that could be done to alleviate that difficulty somewhat but I suppose that’d require a bit of money and resources that are unlikely to be easily attained. Libraries And Cities Are Terrible At Keeping Track of Art ... continue reading

It’s Bloomsday! http://bloomsdaymontreal.com This letter from Jung to Joyce is pretty amusing. Carl Jung’s Delightfully Disgruntled Review of Ulysses and His Letter to James Joyce ... continue reading