Cuba has digitized thousands of documents that writer Ernest Hemingway kept at his Cuban home, making them available electronically for the first time on Monday. - cbc.ca

Link to article here.

From 1920 to 1924 Hemingway wrote for the Toronto Star.

“In response to an appeal from the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees, we are ready to say Israeli academics should not be on our campuses unless they explicitly condemn the university bombing and the assault on Gaza in general,” said Sid Ryan, president of CUPE* Ontario.

(snip)

Ms. Folk-Dawson said the resolution will protect the quality of education by preventing Israeli academics from professing biased views… - Vanessa Kortekaas, National Post

Ms. Folk-Dawson is the chairwoman of the university workers committee.

It all sounds more like pre-war Germany than Canada, don’t you think?

Link to article here.

*Canadian Union of Public Employees

How the JournalSpace operator plans to recover: here, and here. Or not.

Google Cache to the rescue — but only if…

this method only works for people who did not have their blogs/journals set to be viewable only by other JournalSpace members, or set to Friends &/or Favorites only, and for other entries that were not set to private. Also, if people configured their blogs so that the googlebot, or other bots were blocked, they may have limited success in resurrecting old entries from the cache

I was fortunate to learn hard lessons about backups decades ago while working on an aircraft project which shall remain unnamed. I’ve never forgotten since.

Oh, all right then, perhaps I have “forgotten” a time or two, but to no consequence.

So far.

Ho-hum.

Link to article here.

As a test, a Montrealer decided to take the CHRC to task by filing a complaint against the Imam. Needless to say, the Commission declined to hear the case. No surprise there.

So rules the Canadian Human Rights Commission:

“the majority of the references in ‘Islam’ are to ‘infidels’, ‘miscreants’ or ‘western women’. These are general, broad and diversified categories that do not constitute an ‘identifiable group’…

As we have also mentioned, the extracts that identify groups on the basis of prohibited grounds of discrimination (homosexuals, lesbians, Christians, Jews) do not seem to promote ‘hatred’ or ‘contempt’ according to the criteria…”

Oh, really?

Fire. Them. All.

“If the United States does not continue to stand for the ideals of freedom and human rights and against the many guises of tyranny and oppression, who will?”  — United States Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, during his fatwa against Cuba, declaring that the U.S. should not ease sanctions

Now there’s a mouthful, considering the record of King George and the current administration’s eight long years. I could elaborate, but since the record stands for itself, why bother?

Will someone please wash that man’s mouth out with soap?

¡Viva la revolución!

Why does America continue it’s childish feud with an absolutely meaningless cork bobbing in the Gulf? Can’t get your way in your own hemisphere? Need to blame someone for your intransigence? Or, has it something to do with spoiled brats and voters in Cubida — err, Floriduh?