You probably saw on the news that a U.S. government agency has been caught secretly spying on the private communications of millions of people like you – through their cell phones,1 and through popular online services like Google, Facebook, and Skype.2 Now, The Globe And Mail is reporting that Canada
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Eve Adams pushes back
I don’t know the Conservative MP, at all, but I like how she pushed back against Glen McGregor’s innuendo: on Twitter, right out in the open, where all can see and judge. Even if I didn’t dislike McGregor intensely – for letting neo-Nazis know where we lived, among other things
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Can Chrisians Masterbate?
The short answer is yes, and despite what the pious say, they do just like the immoral heathen atheists do. This video by Discern4 tackles this topic with an even handedness that, by standards of this blog, puts it firmly into the mild category of religious criticism. I guess one
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: It’s Ethics, Stupid!
Lawrence Martin summarizes Stephen Harper’s central problem very succinctly: The Prime Minister’s problem is that ethics is taking over from economics as the dominant issue in the public mind. That’s a trend he has to reverse; it’s poison. So far, he has ignored the problem. His strategy has been to
Continue readingknitnut.net: Something to warm your heart
You may have already seen this, since it’s making the rounds, but I’m sharing it just in case. Besides, I’ve watched it a bunch of times and I’m not tired of it yet. This little Brazilian guy is almost two years old.
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Signs the singularity is already here
I knew it! Though this still isn’t as terrifying as a supra-intelligent self-aware Internet only talking to one web developer via text on his web-enabled fridge. (And using Comic Sans to boot.) Check out The Fridgularity here. We can only … Continue reading →
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Liberals or NDP need to take control from all-powerful ‘corporate elite’
With the next federal election a little more than two years away, it is time we started asking the Liberals and New Democrats what kind of government they will deliver if either one can bounce the Conservatives from power. It would be unwise to underestimate the Conservatives’ devious political smarts,
Continue readingCanadian Dimension | Articles: Liberals or NDP need to take control from all-powerful ‘corporate elite’
With the next federal election a little more than two years away, it is time we started asking the Liberals and New Democrats what kind of government they will deliver if either one can bounce the Conservatives from power. It would be unwise to underestimate the Conservatives’ devious political smarts,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Is The Toronto Sun Monitoring/Sacking Staffers Who Post To Sun-Watching Website?
Some speculation on TorontoSunFamily Blog: Anyone wondering why there’s not more “news” on this site should know that most of the people who used to post here are already gone. It’s also commonly known that anyone caught posting here will be marked for termination. And: I worked in that environment,
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: And then magic will happen: Kennedy #nlpoli
Corporate Research Associates obscures what little useful information there is in its quarterly polling by converting party choice numbers to a share of decideds instead of a share of all answers. Nowhere has this been more obvious lately than in its second quarter polling in Newfoundland and Labrador. Report the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Wind Farms And Waterfowl…Not Much Effect
Ducks don’t particularly like nesting around them: One nesting site had a 56-percent lower breeding pair density than a similar site with no wind turbines. Overall, the number of breeding ducks using wetlands near the wind farms was 20 percent lower than in wetlands with no wind development nearby. But
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Will Stephen Harper Resign Before 2015?
Well last night I shared one of my favourite dreams with you eh?The one where the crazed alien Stephen Harper, battered beyond recognition by scandal, suddenly decides to quit.And I said how encouraged I was to see some big shots in the MSM also musing about whether he might resign before
Continue readingthe woodshed: Sometimes it is the process, not the product, that matters
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Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: A Faytene “stop press”
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Apologies to my readers, as a grinding schedule at work has kept me busy. But, that said, I have some “stop press” type items to pass on. 1) Faytene Grasseschi’s big pro-life march on Ottawa appears to have finished–at least her
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rafe Mair Offers the BCNDP A Basic Primer On Campaigning and Politics
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger It is hard to imagine how things could be much worse for British Columbian’s now that the BC NDP tanked in the May 14th election. Yes, the party is now officially on its’ ass but that is the good part. The really bad news is the people that
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: A Defining Moment for the Conservative Government? [VIDEO]
The CBC’s At Issue panel discusses Brent Rathgeber’s decision to quit the Conservative caucus and what it means to a Harper Government besieged by multiple crises. We recommend: Another blow for Harper as Conservative MP quits caucus Conservative MP’s Bill C-461 threatens CBC journalistic integrity, protection of sources SHAME: Harper
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Secret Spying
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Continue readingCathie from Canada: Security state? Or just a fantasy state?
Edward Snowdon thinks of himself as a spy. But Gene Hackman he ain’t.Surely the United States of America wasn’t ever actually being “protected” by 29-year-old guy who dropped out of high school and then dropped out of community college, briefly joined the army but was discharged, and then worked as a university security
Continue readingB.C. Policy Perspectives: N.D.P.= No Dix Please
I told you so, sort of. Okay, Okay, I was as gullible as everyone else in assuming the public media opinon polls would translate into an NDP victory on May 17. But I did say this a year and a half ago, on January 28, 2012, on this blog: “[in
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