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recent bookmarks from jmHow to Live in a Climate ‘Permanent Emergency’2021-07-01T21:24:08+00:00
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/how-to-live-in-a-climate-permanent-emergency.html
jmAccording to one calculation, the heat wave was five standard deviations above expectations, meaning it was an event that should arrive, in the absence of climate change, once every 5,000 years. That’s once since the age of Ancient Egypt. We are experiencing that five-sigma event this year. In British Columbia, it was as hot as it was in Death Valley, California. They called it Death Valley for a reason.
]]>grim-meathook-future climate-change climate global-warming heatwaves canada death-valleyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:275ccb97de39/COVID-19 vaccine extended dose intervals for early vaccine rollout and population protection in Canada: NACI recommendations - Canada.ca2021-04-14T20:07:08+00:00
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/immunization/national-advisory-committee-on-immunization-naci/extended-dose-intervals-covid-19-vaccines-early-rollout-population-protection.html
jmcanada vaccines covid-19 sars-cov-2 medicinehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ac316cc19504/Physical separation of cyclists from traffic “crucial” to dropping injury rates, shows U.S. study2017-05-13T21:01:51+00:00
https://cyclingindustry.news/physical-separation-of-cyclists-from-traffic-crucial-to-dropping-injury-rates-shows-u-s-study/
jmCiting a further study of differing types of cycling infrastructure in Canada, the editorial writes that an 89% increase in safety was noted on streets with physical separation over streets where no such infrastructure existed. Unprotected cycling space was found to be 53% safer.
In 2014 there were 902 recorded cyclists fatalities in America and 35,206 serious injuries. Per kilometre cycled fatalities per 100 million kilometres cycled sat at 4.7. In the Netherlands and Denmark those rates sit at 1 and 1.1, respectively.
]]>cycling infrastructure roads safety accidents cars statistics us canadahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c9fca3759498/Canadian Police Obtained BlackBerry’s Global Decryption Key in 20102016-04-15T14:27:07+00:00
https://news.vice.com/article/exclusive-canada-police-obtained-blackberrys-global-decryption-key-how
jmAccording to technical reports by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that were filed in court, law enforcement intercepted and decrypted roughly one million PIN-to-PIN BlackBerry messages in connection with the probe. The report doesn't disclose exactly where the key — effectively a piece of code that could break the encryption on virtually any BlackBerry message sent from one device to another — came from. But, as one police officer put it, it was a key that could unlock millions of doors.
Government lawyers spent almost two years fighting in a Montreal courtroom to keep this information out of the public record.
]]>canada crime encryption security blackberry crypto rcmp police rogers montreal rimhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:98e16a5c0c52/Ireland’s first dedicated poutine place opened in Dublin today and it’s delish2016-01-28T10:16:37+00:00
http://www.dailyedge.ie/poutine-3-2570656-Jan2016/
jmpoutine canadia canada frozen-wastes food chips dublinhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6517dee4da71/Canadian Judge Says Asking For A Copy Of A Legally-Obtained But Paywalled Article Is Circumvention | Techdirt2015-11-01T12:16:29+00:00
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151028/10255032658/canadian-judge-says-asking-copy-legally-obtained-paywalled-article-is-circumvention.shtml
jmFor requesting a copy of an article that was legally obtained by a colleague from a paywalled source, Pazsowski found himself hit with around US$10,000-worth of damages. This completely disproportionate punishment for what is at most a minor case of copyright infringement is a perfect demonstration of where the anti-circumvention madness leads.
]]>circumvention tpm copyright paywalls techdirt law canadahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0a2285229887/TIL we have more gravity than Canada2015-05-18T09:26:15+00:00
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/secrets-of-gravity.htm
jmgravity canada geode earth science hudson-bay masshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d20d5a2d2b69/Why Canada should de-activate Uber2014-11-23T22:19:24+00:00
http://tomslee.net/2014/11/why-canada-should-de-activate-uber.html
jmThe Uber controversy is not just—or even mainly—a technology story, it’s fundamentally a deregulation story; the story of a uniquely American fundamentalist free-market worldview being sold to us in the name of “car-sharing” and innovation.
]]>uber free-market libertarian taxis regulation canada citieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e7f2ff499b31/This Canadian Artist Halted Pipeline Development by Copyrighting His Land as a Work of Art2014-11-10T15:42:24+00:00
http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/this-canadian-artist-halted-pipeline-development-by-copyrighting-his-land-as-a-work-of-art-983
jmOne of the really important pieces on my land was this white-picket fence. The picket fence is probably 100 yards or less, within 100 yards of where they wanted to build this pipeline. I [plan to] extend it 8 feet every year for the rest of my life and I've been doing that for 25 years. It got me thinking, where does this piece end? Does it end at the actual structure of the fence or the things growing around it, growing through it, that are part of the photography, the documentation of it? I realized at that point that [the fence], and the other sculptures and pieces and incursions and conceptual works, were actually integral to that piece of land and to my practice.
I had not intended for it to be a political piece, it was just a piece, an idea the follow-through of which at some point became poetic, you go, "Wait a minute the fence actually stopped them!" But the fence doesn't actually enclose anything. It's just a straight line. And it's marking something that's actually unmarkable, which is time. And one day it'll be gone, as will I. The land will be changed--but it was just this crazy irony that kicked into play when I was standing there with those oil negotiators.
]]>copyright art pipelines canada politics oil land conceptual-art iphttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8452ebc3e1a6/The Problem Isn’t Vancouver’s Astronomical Housing Costs— It’s the People Who Buy2014-10-11T21:14:13+00:00
https://medium.com/spencers-collection/why-vancouvers-housing-costs-arent-the-problem-its-the-people-who-buy-them-d094a420da2b
jmTwo types of people own homes in Vancouver — wealthy foreigners who are looking for a place to park their money, and long-time Vancouver residents who have benefited from skyrocketing equity, through no actual effort of their own. There is a simple problem with these people being the primary homeowners in any city — they don’t actually create much value for the place they live in.
A very large percentage of wealthy foreigners who “park” their money here don’t actually live in Vancouver. Take a drive around most expensive areas and you’ll realize the homes are empty. At most, they send their kids to live in Vancouver, learn english/go to school, and then return to their country (usually to Hong Kong). For some reason this is okay with people who live here. The amount of value added to a city from this sort of activity approaches zero. In fact, I’d argue that these people actually leech off of the system more than anything else.
]]>vancouver housing mortgages investment canada homeownershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4000236e36a5/Ebola vaccine delayed by IP spat2014-10-04T12:14:11+00:00
http://news.sciencemag.org/africa/2014/09/ebola-vaccine-tests-needlessly-delayed-researchers-claim
jmGiven the urgency, it's inexplicable that one of the candidate vaccines, developed at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) in Winnipeg, has yet to go in the first volunteer's arm, says virologist Heinz Feldmann, who helped develop the vaccine while at PHAC. "It’s a farce; these doses are lying around there while people are dying in Africa,” says Feldmann, who now works at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Hamilton, Montana.
At the center of the controversy is NewLink Genetics, a small company in Ames, Iowa, that bought a license to the vaccine's commercialization from the Canadian government in 2010, and is now suddenly caught up in what WHO calls "the most severe acute public health emergency seen in modern times.” Becker and others say the company has been dragging its feet the past 2 months because it is worried about losing control over the development of the vaccine.
]]>ip patents drugs ebola canada phac newlink-genetics health epidemics vaccineshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:47d84a878db1/Google forced to e-forget a company worldwide2014-06-20T09:02:42+00:00
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/06/19/google-forced-to-e-forget-a-company-worldwide/
jmWhen Google argued that Canadian law couldn't be applied to the entire world, the court responded by citing British Columbia's Law and Equity Act, which grants broad power for a court to issue injunctions when it's "just or convenient that the order should be made."
Google also tried to argue against the injunction on the basis of it amounting to censorship. The court responded that there are already entire categories of content that get censored, such as child abuse imagery.
Will this be the first of a new wave of requests for company website take-downs?
Via stx.]]>canada via:stx censorship google search takedowns datalink equustek gw1000 hardwarehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:cd10ae5aeff4/one Canadian judge's 192-page judgement eviscerating the Freeman-on-the-Land and related "Organised Pseudolegal Commercial Argument" litigants2013-05-16T22:10:20+00:00
http://www.canlii.ca/en/ab/abqb/doc/2012/2012abqb571/2012abqb571.html
jmThis Court has developed a new awareness and understanding of a category of vexatious litigant. As we shall see, while there is often a lack of homogeneity, and some individuals or groups have no name or special identity, they (by their own admission or by descriptions given by others) often fall into the following descriptions: Detaxers; Freemen or Freemen-on-the-Land; Sovereign Men or Sovereign Citizens; Church of the Ecumenical Redemption International (CERI); Moorish Law; and other labels - there is no closed list. In the absence of a better moniker, I have collectively labelled them as Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Argument litigants [“OPCA litigants”], to functionally define them collectively for what they literally are. These persons employ a collection of techniques and arguments promoted and sold by ‘gurus’ (as hereafter defined) to disrupt court operations and to attempt to frustrate the legal rights of governments, corporations, and individuals.
Over a decade of reported cases have proven that the individual concepts advanced by OPCA litigants are invalid. What remains is to categorize these schemes and concepts, identify global defects to simplify future response to variations of identified and invalid OPCA themes, and develop court procedures and sanctions for persons who adopt and advance these vexatious litigation strategies.
One participant in this matter [...] appears to be a sophisticated and educated person, but is also an OPCA litigant. One of the purposes of these Reasons is, through this litigant, to uncover, expose, collate, and publish the tactics employed by the OPCA community, as a part of a process to eradicate the growing abuse that these litigants direct towards the justice and legal system we otherwise enjoy in Alberta and across Canada. I will respond on a point-by-point basis to the broad spectrum of OPCA schemes, concepts, and arguments advanced in this action by [him].
Via Ronan Lupton
]]>via:ronanlupton law canada legal freeman opca court tax judgementshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:86642e6742ba/Canadian Universities Agree To Ridiculous Copyright Agreement That Says Emailing Hyperlinks Is Equal To Photocopying | Techdirt2012-02-23T13:25:51+00:00
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120220/03190917805/canadian-universities-agree-to-ridiculous-copyright-agreement-that-says-emailing-hyperlinks-is-equal-to-photocopying.shtml
jmcopyright canada hyperlinks copyfight techdirt licensing academiahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5d09e35b6c8d/10 myths from usage-based billing supporters2011-02-22T21:28:18+00:00
http://wordsbynowak.com/2011/02/22/10-myths-from-usage-based-billing-supporters/
jminternet broadband canada pricing bandwidth bandwidth-caps billinghttps://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2389405fbdc5/BBC News - How spam filters dictated Canadian magazine's fate2010-03-30T15:34:39+00:00
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8528672.stm
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