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Ontario's Rain and Snow !!!!
This is a realtime display of the Nav Canada Radar system for rain and snow
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Canada's entire Rain map a Mari usque ad Mare
A realtime display showing all of the Canadian rain and snow.
Toronto!
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TorontoCam
My city on the face of the earth.
The Toronto Star
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Karen Stintz goes undercover on the TTC
The transit chair wears a disguise and cleans buses in Thursday’s episode of Undercover Boss.
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Mayor Rob Ford silent on buried Sheppard subwa ...
A year-old TTC report argues there’s a poor case for the subway extension he wants, but the mayor refused to discuss it Wednesday.
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Drummond Report: Higher hydro bills, more user ...
Ontarians could face higher hydro bills, bigger school classes, fewer hospitals, more expensive tuition and user fees to protect the future of provincial public services. ...
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More than 160 students apply to Toronto public ...
There hasn’t exactly been a crescendo of demand, but enough students have applied to ensure Toronto’s specialty schools will open this fall.
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Drummond report: ‘Controversial’ prescription ...
Don Drummond’s “very controversial” prescription for what ails the province will include some radical surgery to Ontario’s $47-billion health system.
The Canadian CBC news
Empty newsfeed.
Boing Boing A directory of wonderful Things!
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HOWTO fight cheating by promoting authentic le ...
Writing on 21k12, Jonathan Martin offers up a thoughtful response to the "plague of cheating" in secondary and postsecondary education. The right way to reduce cheating is to make education about more than test-scores and extrinsic measures, he argues. Cheating will only go down when students ar ...
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Sponsor Shout-Out: Watchismo
Our thanks go to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our once-daily delivery of headlines by email. Check out the most controversial watches of the Mr. Jones Watch Collection: the Fuck Cancer Watch and The Accurate Watch. Mr. Jones Fuck Cancer Watch - Cancer is a terrifying disease that ...
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PlayFic: an online toolset and community for e ...
Andy Baio and his 15-year-old nephew Cooper McHatton created PlayFic, "a community for writing, sharing, and playing interactive fiction games (aka 'text adventures') entirely from your browser, using a 'natural language'-inspired language called Inform 7." Basically, it's a site for making your ...
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Meet the western technology companies who sell ...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has begun to publish a series of informative corporate biographies of technology companies that make network spying equipment and sell it to torturing dictators like Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Qaddafi. These companies' publish sales material advertising their us ...
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Make: Talk 005 - Carol Reiley, Surgical Roboticist
Here's the 5th episode of MAKE's podcast, Make: Talk! In each episode, I'll interview one of the makers featured in the magazine. Our maker this week is Carol Reiley (@robot_MD and @tinkerBelleLabs). She's a surgical roboticist at Intuitive surgical and the founder of Tinker Belle Labs. Carols's ...
