More random links
- How the 2 Americas Spend Their Time
- "Today, the higher your degree, the fewer hours you have to relax." (the study seems to stop at college - nothing really with graduate degrees in this post).
- Target to open with Canadian content on shelves
- I generally apply the if-it's-Canadian-it's-crap heuristic to media, but perhaps I need to start applying it to what's on store shelves as well.
- Microhydro Drives Change in Rural Nepal
- The power still seems kind of expensive - 80 cents / KWh, but still seems to have brought a lot of positives to the community. This is run-of-the-river hydro they're talking about - no dams required.
- Lawyers alarmed at criminal charges in family cases
- On the laying of criminal charges as a tactic to gain a foothold in a child custody battle. The lawyer cited in the article: "I have successfully established fabrication in at least 15 per cent of the cases with very clear contradictions in evidence, including differences in affidavit evidence tendered in the family court proceedings. Yet not one case resulted in charges being laid against the complainant."
- Hospital kills ‘wrong’ twin in selective abortion – both babies now dead
- "It is interesting that the killing of an ‘unwanted’ child with special needs in the womb is regarded as ‘normal’ whilst the killing of a ‘wanted’ normal child is seen as a tragedy and worthy of international news coverage."