Tag Archives: Globe and Mail

Globe and Mail not ready for Windows 8

Canada’s premiere news site is using still Adobe Flash videos and not HTML 5 compliant

Globe and Mail, still using out-of-date Flash videos

I am using Windows 8 full-time now to see what problems still exist.

Imagine my surprise to find the Globe and Mail, the CBC and other news sites are still using Adobe Flash for videos and not compatible with Windows 8 Metro

Sites that serve Flash videos are becoming the museum of modern computer archaeology by clinging to Flash. The IE 10 Guidelines for Building Touch-friendly Sitesis fairly short. What seems to be the problem?

Does your local newspaper or TV station website still use Flash?

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Registered Disability Savings benefit for well-to-do Canadians

The RDSP is a disability support program that is not intended to help those who really need it.

The RDSP needs serious revision before it will be more than a boutique benefit program for a few lucky Canadians.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty teared up during an October 2011 press conference announcing a review of the RDSP.

“There was an initial attempt to contain the tears. When that failed, there was a brief foray at concealing them from the cameras.” Continue reading →

Olympic officials hide truth in luge death

Cover-up is ongoing as CBC discovered through secret emails

Nodar Kumaritashvili, died on dangerous luge track in Vancouver officials ignored warning

The death of Georgian luge athlete Nodar Muaritashvili may have been preventable according to secret emails uncovered by the CBC.

Vancouver Olympic organizers (VANOC) were warned long in advance that the track was too dangerous and too fast.

In March 2009, VANOC head John Furlong wrote “Embedded in this note (cryptic as it may be) is a warning that the track is in their view too fast and someone could get badly hurt. An athlete gets badly injured or worse, and I think the case could be made we were warned and did nothing.” CBC Continue reading →

Getting real with calories disability and the 30-lb-turkey

Let’s get rid of that “30-lb-turkey” and make our lives with disability easier

30-lb-turkey, it's hard to carry that around all day

Part two of a four three part series on losing weight sensibly for everyone but especially those living with disabilities who have limited mobility. The goal is to make our life with a disability easier and healthier.

The easiest way to lose weight is stop eating as much. Maintaining a balanced diet on reduced calories is the best way to lose weight, period.

Yesterday in Losing weight when you have a disability we covered the “30-lb-turkey” we are carrying when we are above our ideal weight. How’s that turkey feeling today, a little heavy?

The standard stuff about losing weight through exercise or joining Jenny Craig doesn’t cut it for those with disabilities.

First, most of us are already doing whatever we can physically and moderate exercise only tones muscles bu does not reduce the “30-lb-turkey”.

Second, Jenny Craig and those weight loss programs are not geared to people with disabilities. They give you really impossible suggestions. No problem. Exercise isn’t needed.

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Harper reacts with police violence to public protest

They old can’t kill the young forever, Tienanmen Square

(Last 31 seconds of police charge on Queen St. at Spadina)

It is a shame on Canada that Prime Minister Harper doesn’t want to hear the voices of Canadians. Neither did the Communist leadership in China at Tienanmen Square.

Harper reacted to the G20 protests the same way the Chinese government did with military might. Harper got ready with in $1 billion in police buildup.

The police attacked the crowd on Queen Street West near Spadina. Up until then people had been walking and protesting, carrying their signs. Those would be Charter Rights in Canada.

After singing O’Canada, a few people sat in the middle of the street and the police charged the crowd. (8:30 in the video) Then the violence began. Don’t take our word for it. The video is crystal clear (after the story break)

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Is it ethical or legal for directors to receive grants from Music PEI?

Brian Mulroney, the former Prime Minister can't pass the smell test

Stephen Pate, NJN Network, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, May 22 2009

“There is the law, and there is ethics. What might be legal, sometimes is not ethical. What might be legally defensible, in a hair-splitting or tightly defined way, does not pass a reasonable smell test of proper ethical conduct. Jeffery Simpson, Globe and Mail Conduct unbecoming Continue reading →

Cops with tin badges and nothing to do

Bela Kosoian, seen Friday in the Metro station, says she intends to fight the $420 in fines. (John Morstad/For The Globe and Mail)

Woman cuffed for not holding escalator handrail

LES PERREAUX, From Saturday’s Globe and Mail May 15, 2009 at 11:33 PM EDT

MONTREAL — Anyone who has ridden an escalator and bothered to pay attention has seen – and likely ignored – little signs suggesting riders hold the grimy handrail. Continue reading →