Doctors and med students interrupt Minister of Resources announcement at Toronto General Hospital

The health care cuts to refugee services that Dr. Chris Keefer mentions are part of the omnibus budget legislation being slated to be passed by the Senate.

CBC News has more on the event.

The comment section is littered with comments like "why should they get **MORE** than me?" and all kinds of privileged whiners, one person even writes

Why not, they're already used to hardship.

The Harper Government and its supporters are taking Canada in a terrible self-destructive direction. Their xenophobia, anti-science attitude, and disregard for the well being of fellow humans and the environment is setting us back. History will show their policies not only led us astray in a moral sense, but their management of healthcare and science will be detrimental to the country's economy.

Carol Adams and The Sexual Politics of Meat

The Discerning Brute has an excellent video interview with Carol Adams, author of the Sexual Politics of Meat, and the Pornography of Meat, about the resurgence in meat fetishism and the machismo of eating animals.

Internet Culture 201: Gender, Discrimation, and Dickish Parts of the Internet

Let’s Make Mistakes is proving to be one of the best non-tech tech podcasts out there. Instead of theorizing about the minutia of current and future tech products, Katie Gillum and Mike Monteiro tackle big issues that affect the people working in the industry.

The most recent episode is a discussion about gender and privilege in the design, programming and technology industries with Faruk Ateş.

Even if you don't work in tech you can probably look around and see how subconscious discrimination plays a role in your workplace.

Winnipeg Internet Pundits: Oh, really?

As usual I manage to sound like the least intelligent person in the room, except this time I literally phoned it in.

The pundits and I talked about the new mandatory bicycle helmet laws that Manitoba just passed and that I've previous written about, as well as Winnipeg's airport to downtown "image route". Then I was disconnected from the call, but I'm sure the rest of the show was just as great.

I was honoured to finally appear in the same episode as Walter Krawec, formerly of One Man Committee, whose writing I have admired for quite some time.

How Oil Prices Affect the Economy

A video excerpt from Jeremy Rifkin's recent book The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World, which I haven't read but am definitely adding to my list.

(via Devour)

Accountable to no one.

Bob Rae, via CBC News:

"Any company that made a mistake of this kind, that misled its shareholders, that misled the public, that put out a misleading prospectus, that published false figures and false documents to the tune of billions of dollars, any company that did those things would fire the CEO and replace the board of directors,"

That may be, but the Prime Minister is not a CEO and with a majority government he is much less accountable than his counterparts in the private sector.

Electoral fraud, mismanagement of Department of Defence funds, rigging the system to bypass environmental regulations in order to expedite controversial pipeline construction, what else can "the Harper Government" get away with?

Based on how little the general population seems to care, I'm willing to bet it could get a whole lot worse.