Random links
- Is Daylight Saving Time Bad for Your Health?
- Tonight is the time to put forward your alarm clock. The result of this is an annual peak in suicides and an increased risk of heart attack.
- Dark drama Incendies dominates Genie Awards
- I thought that this was a really well done movie when I saw it at a film festival in Sept./Oct. 2010 prior to all the hype it's attracted in recent months. As the title of the article notes, the film is a bit dark, but that doesn't mean that it isn't worth watching.
- 'Double dipping' child support to be appealed
- "A Toronto lawyer is planning to appeal a judge's landmark ruling that ordered a biological father to pay full child support despite the fact the boy's stepfather already does." - the article also notes that the biological father has been cut off from his child.
- New Study on Hate Crimes against Muslims Contradicts Claims of Islamophobia in America
- "... the study shows that hate crimes against Muslim Americans, measured by the categories of incidents, offenses or victims, have remained relatively low with a downward trend since 2001. For example, in 2009, Jewish victims of hate crimes outnumbered Muslim victims by more than 8 to 1 (1,132 Jewish victims to 132 Muslim victims). From 2000 through 2009, for every one hate crime incident against a Muslim, there were six hate crime incidents against Jewish victims (1,580 Muslim incidents versus 9,692 Jewish incidents). Even in 2001, total anti-Muslim incidents, offenses and victims remained approximately half of the corresponding anti-Jewish totals." The one thing that I did scan the report to estimate was the size of the Jewish and Muslim populations - it seems that the Jewish population may be at most twice the size of the Muslim population, although Jewish is likely to be an ethnic identifier rather than a religious one it would seem.