What’s happening Dec. 11, 2009
In another strong move from the EU at Copenhagen, the 27-member state has said it will contribute over CAD$3 billion to a fund for poor countries to survive future climate changes (drought, deforestation, coastal shifts, and disease).
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In Vancouver, art gallery The Crying Room got a taste of Olympic censorship for a work portraying the Olympic rings with sad faces. The city is sayings it’s graffiti, but it’s not a stretch to see why people are saying it’s a free-expression clamp down.
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Will all the Tiger talk, it seemed appropriate to mention the Ashley Madison (that’s the online extra-marital affair site) plans to wrap TTC streetcars with ads using their “Life is short, have an affair” tagline.
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In further anger directed at the TTC, ttcriders.ca, of which ACORN is a founding partner, is holding a protest of fare hikes at Yonge-Bloor station today at noon.
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Finally, scientists at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory have made a nano snowman. It’s 0.02mm tall and is made of electron microscope calibration beads.[rssbreak]
