Luke Simcoe is a guest blogger. He contributes the occasional post on web culture, the various kooks and cranks who inhabit the Internet, as well as copyright matters. Today (among other things) he put together this Storify.
Econowatch
Economists Stephen Gordon (ULaval), Mike Moffatt (Western) and Kevin Milligan (UBC), as well as Macleans.ca’s Erica Alini and guest bloggers write about the economy and economic policy in Canada, the U.S. and the world. We like charts. On Twitter, follow Stephen: @stephenfgordon; Mike: @mikepmoffatt; Kevin: @kevinmilligan and Erica: @ealini.
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From Macleans
Capital Read
Stephen Harper and the knowledge economy: perfect strangers
Paul Wells on the bad news in the Science, Technology and Innovation Council’s latest report
Canada
Michael Bryant calls the casino industry’s bluff
“A casino is a factory of broken dreams — a scam for “recreational” gamblers, a shell game for taxpayers, and a rat trap for addicts”
Beyond The Commons
The Commons: John Baird tries to explain what he understands to be true
The opposition is not appeased by the Prime Minister’s acknowledgement of unhappiness
Life
Life lessons for Generation ‘Why’
Always buy toilet paper in bulk
Brian D. Johnson Unscreened
The Cannes comeback kid: Michael Douglas as Liberace
“In terms of being in bed with Michael Douglas,” says Matt Damon, “I now have things in common with Sharon Stone and Glenn Close.”
Business
A breakdown in the boreal game-changer
Chris Sorensen explains why the collapse of the boreal forest agreement comes as no surprise
