Canada II: Embracing Redundancy

We’ve all been sold a bill of goods. All the time we are told that efficiency, productivity and profitability are the most important things in the world. Heck, we’ve even folded sustainability into this model. As we continue to mix more and more ingredients into this cake we’re increasingly at

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Canada II: Embracing Redundancy

We’ve all been sold a bill of goods. All the time we are told that efficiency, productivity and profitability are the most important things in the world. Heck, we’ve even folded sustainability into this model. As we continue to mix more and more ingredients into this cake we’re increasingly at

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Canada II: Political War on Words

I think that progressives need to wake up. You see, the conservatives have been at war with us for decades now. It isn’t simply that they prefer slightly different policies than us. They want to dismantle all of the positive work done over the last few generations and put in

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Canada II: Political War on Words

I think that progressives need to wake up. You see, the conservatives have been at war with us for decades now. It isn’t simply that they prefer slightly different policies than us. They want to dismantle all of the positive work done over the last few generations and put in

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Canada II: A Temporary Coalition?

I’ve been thinking about the state of affairs in Canadian politics. In case you haven’t noticed we have a single conservative party winning majorities while getting a minority of the vote. This isn’t a good thing for Canada and we need to do something about it. Ideas that come to

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Canada II: A Temporary Coalition?

I’ve been thinking about the state of affairs in Canadian politics. In case you haven’t noticed we have a single conservative party winning majorities while getting a minority of the vote. This isn’t a good thing for Canada and we need to do something about it. Ideas that come to

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Canada II: Online Anonymity with Tor

I doubt many people in the general public have inspected their browser request headers recently. An edited version of a request from my own browser is below: HTTP_HOST: … HTTP_CONNECTION: … [snip] SERVER_SOFTWARE: … SERVER_NAME: … SERVER_ADDR: … SERVER_PORT: … REMOTE_HOST: redacted.cable.rogers.com REMOTE_ADDR: … REMOTE_PORT: … SERVER_PROTOCOL: … REQUEST_METHOD: …

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Canada II: Online Anonymity with Tor

I doubt many people in the general public have inspected their browser request headers recently. An edited version of a request from my own browser is below: HTTP_HOST: … HTTP_CONNECTION: … [snip] SERVER_SOFTWARE: … SERVER_NAME: … SERVER_ADDR: … SERVER_PORT: … REMOTE_HOST: redacted.cable.rogers.com REMOTE_ADDR: … REMOTE_PORT: … SERVER_PROTOCOL: … REQUEST_METHOD: …

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Canada II: OilGate: Selling our Sovereignty

Harper’s government is guilty of projection if nothing else. Yesterday’s article in the Ottawa Citizen clearly points out how foreign interests have taken ownership of the oilsands from the inside: Defenceless: Canada has no idea what foreign activity… But what Harper and Oliver inadvertently opened up was a nasty and troubling

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