The following organizations are providing immediate relief for the victims
of the Tsunami disaster. Please give generously to your country branch of one of the following:
Red Cross (Canada) - link to your country
on the Red Cross website.
The Canadian government has recently announced new legislation called the Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act.
The new act promises to “reduce regulatory burden on the not-for-profit sector and the government; improve financial accountability; clarify the roles and responsibilities of directors and officers; and enhance and protect the rights of members.”
“Becker is a Nobel-prize-winning economist who in addition to scholarly publications on a wide range of economic issues including education, discrimination, labor, the family, crime, addiction, and immigration, for many years wrote a monthly column for Business Week. Posner is a federal circuit judge and also a writer of books and articles in a variety of fields, including antitrust, intellectual property, and other fields in which economics is applied to law, but also topical fields such as impeachment, contested elections, and national-security issues.”
As of Monday, December 6, they’re blogging. Welcome to the Blogosphere, gentlemen. (via Metafilter)
In case you hadn’t heard, smoking is stupid. The Ontario Ministry of Health has fulfilled a campaign promise to take action on youth smoking, and launched a youth anti-smoking campaign called “Stupid.”
The campaign features a website, ads, e-postcards, a weblog and more. The campaign launched with concerts across the province, and dozens of young people turned out. At the show I was at, Goldfinger, De La Soul, and more played to a pumped-up crowd.