Here in Canada, Big Telecom is taking Canadians to court to try to delay the end of expensive 3-year contracts until nearly 2017. Meanwhile, over in Europe, the E.U. has forced cell phone networks to dramatically slash the cost of roaming fees between E.U. members. If you believe Big Telecom’s
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Groups demand that U.S. companies reject Canadian tar sands
by: Sierra Club Canada | Press Release: Corporate Climate Campaign led by Sierra Club and ForestEthics Gains Momentum San Francisco, CA, June 2, 2013 – Fifty-eight organizations, led by the Sierra Club and ForestEthics, released an open letter today demanding that companies take climate action. The letter calls on U.S. corporations with trucking
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Hudak PC candidate: Female voters are "less informed"…including about control over their own bodies?
That’s Wayne Wettlaufer, former PC MPP who served with Hudak and Mike Harris running to win his seat of Kitchener Centre back for the Conservatives. Wettlaufer also must think women aren’t informed enough to have control over their own bodies (also noteworthy a little guy named Tim Hudak as well several
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Jet Stream, The Calgary Floods, And Global Warming
One day I want to do an in-depth post on gradually changing attitudes among climate scientists re attributing individual events to global warming. This is not that post. Instead I’ve just ripped some text from Dr. Jeff Masters at Wunderground that talks about how unusual patterns in the jet stream brought
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: How to stop a media bias argument in its tracks, even with a Toronto Star journalist
The big myth in Canada is that there is a liberal media bias in Canada. That belief, honed by Canadian right-wing bloggers based on their southern counterpart’s laborious whine about their own ‘media bias’, is just silly, especially in Canada. Look at our national press. National Post and Postmedia are
Continue readingBuckdog: Wow! Egypt’s President Morsi OUSTED By Military … no fooling around there ..
“Egypt’s military has ousted the country’s first democratically elected leader, replacing him with the chief justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court, calling for an early presidential election and suspending the Islamist-backed constitution. Army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday, said a government of technocrats
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Egypt – key points
– The Egyptian army has suspended the constitution and announced the formation of a technocratic interim government ahead of new presidential elections. – Religious and opposition figures have approved the new political roadmap, saying it aimed for national reconciliation. – Armoured vehicles are deployed across the streets of the capital,
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Round-Up of Five Ontario By-Elections Due for August 1st
Ontario’s Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne has announced that five by-elections will be held on August 1st, ostensibly to replace five retiring Liberal MPPs. I’ve already covered the “big three,” that being former Finance Minister Dwight Duncan’s seat in Windsor-Tecumseh; former AG/Energy Minister Chris Bentley’s riding of London West; and former
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Let’s Keep Going, Canada | Weekly News Update from OpenMedia ca
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Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6207…Can Tim Hudak Go Oh Fer 5?
Thursday August 1st is when there will be 5 by elections in Ontario. If form was to hold the official opposition, Tim Hudak’s Progressive Conservatives, should take all the seats. They will not. In fact the view from here says they will take zero seats. Obviously the only way Mr.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Big Telecom is actually taking you to court
Last night as I was wrapping up my day, I took one last glance at my email and I couldn’t believe my eyes. It was our public interest lawyer notifying me that Canada’s cell phone giants have just quietly put forward a motion in Federal Court to overturn parts of
Continue readingMorton's Musings: The fact is that public transit remains less convenient, more time-consuming and even more frustrating than driving. That takes some doing. We shouldn’t be surprised that so many turn up their noses at the TTC; it hasn’t been the Better Way for decades.
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Continue readingNorthern Insight: Brave New World has arrived
In 70 plus years of the communist eastern bloc, elites exercised tight control of communications. Pravda and Izvestia were mouthpieces of USSR state agencies and censorship was pervasive, including control of radio, television, book publishing, the arts and other communications. Even copying machines were monitored and public libraries restricted. Reporters
Continue readingLeDaro: Military coup in Egypt: Morsi is out.
It is sad. Egyptians should have given democracy a chance.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: But smoking crack out on Dixon Road? That’s something we support, dude!
More rich-in-irony linkage here!
Continue readingknitnut.net: Goodbye, Robin
My dear friend, Watawa Life blogger Robin Kelsey, died on July 2, 2013 at the age of 64. Robin was a photographer, a writer, a biker, an introvert, a lover of cats and a kind and gentle spirit. He was also one of my favourite people in the whole world.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Egyptian Government Falls to Coup
The New York Times reports that Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi has been ousted by the country’s military. Egypt’s military moved forcefully to seize power from President Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday, deploying tanks and troops in Cairo and other cities, restricting his travel and convening an emergency meeting of top civilian
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Climate Change 2.0
The denialist community is having a field day sowing doubt over global warming as it was once understood while ignoring that the narrative they cling to has been overtaken by major events. Research showing a link between the frequency of El Nino – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events and global warming
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: We Failed Rwanda; Let’s Stand for the #Rohingya
Indonesia Muslim Rally It’s been almost 20 years since the Rwandan genocide. We were too stupid, callous, or indifferent to stop it, and Senator Dallaire has more than a few words on the topic. Granted, the WWW was just getting going in the early 1990s, so we didn’t have the
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