On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Canadian Film and TV Unions' relations with the federal government and the political parties trying to run it:

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2019/07/25/canadas-film-and-tv-workers-launch-support-campaign-ahead-of-octobers-federal-election.html

TESS' first year of operations as a planet-hunting observatory in orbit:

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/07/26/tess-concluding-first-year-of-observations/

What's up with the O-Train Confederation Line?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/lrt-ready-trial-run-now-what-1.5224647

More later...

Thanks to rfmcdpei for reminding me that this is a reality:

http://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/2016/03/social-networks-interlocking-directorates-and-the-power-elite.html

davidbrin has pointed out such issues more than once on his own weblog, of course, but the reminders are still useful. Especially where a law like the USA's Clayton Act is concerned. And since the USA has a federal election underway, maybe some renewed attention to the Clayton Act's enforcement - or lack of it - is due as part of the debates?

Filed under "Sad, but unsurprising":

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/nexen-pipeline-leak-in-alberta-spills-5-million-litres-1.3155907

Whatever I think of the NHL turning their backs on the CBC after six decades of a solid brand-building relationship, I just had my attention drawn to this item again tonight: the 2014 NHL Sustainability Report.

It's apparently occurred to some people looking at this report that the NHL might have both a financial and ecological stake in the outcome of Canada's next federal election. And that the oil and coal sector might have a problem with that perception.

I don't know that they're wrong about that assessment. Some of you reading this might have your own thoughts.

Anyone?

On oil and Norway:

http://thetyee.ca/News/2012/08/08/Norway-Oil-Commandments/
http://thetyee.ca/News/2012/08/22/Rolf-Wiborg/

On design and currency:

http://www.designedgecanada.com/blogs/index.php?blogId=16#comments_section

Agree? Disagree? Either way, why?

...some commentary about a fair concern re: the current state of film and TV.

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2007/11/people-who-dont-love-television.html

Read and react as you will.

May comics not end up in the same boat(or worse)...and if we're already there, may we remedy the situation PDQ!