Michael Geist is right on the new copyright bill: one part seeks a fairly good balance; the other, punishing digital lock breakers, is a cave-in to US Studios. People will find ways to copy a digitally locked DVD to mobile platforms and computers despi…
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Politics and Entertainment: Leeds Grenville All Candidates
Only Charlie Taylor of the Green Party of Ontario offered a consistently progressive perspective at last night’s safe and cozy Chamber affair. (I have yet to see a serious disagreement at any of these North Grenville Chamber of Commerce nights let alon…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: J. E. Hoover Trailer
Probably Leo’s best performance ever and perhaps Eastwood’s best work too. DeCaprio is the best actor of his generation and is only going to get better as he ages. He, like Daniel Day Lewis and Johnny Depp, has extraordinary screen presence, but, u…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Alberta Has More Than one Reason to Feel Guility
But apparently doesn’t, according to the Globe’s Time to Lead Piece of September 12.2011:
“Alberta is the land of coal production and consumption. It’s also Canada’s dirtiest province for greenhouse gases, producing a third of the country’s emis…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Deconstructing Hudak’s Weak Ploy
Any affirmative action initiaitve always draws forth twisted logic from its detractors. We’ve seen this response with language, race, and gender affirmative programs many times before. That Hudak’s advisors are using the old binary opposition ploy aga…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: System Change: Naomi Klein from Council of Canadians
Nothing Exposes the Failures of Our Economic System More than Climate Change, which is not merely an isolated, separate environmental issue, for the effects of climate change are in fact the direct result of our market based model of economic growth a…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: LabourDay’s May Yet Come Again
I’m always shocked when I hear people – frequently working class and rural Canadians but many middle-class business types – rail against unions and, because they’re unionized, public servants as if they were fat cats. They never seem to remember in t…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Doer Shills for Tarsands and Sells out Environment
“Gary Doer sells oil sands from coast to U.S. coast” Yeah, and in the process is selling out the environment and, eventually, the planet. How sad to see Gary Doer shilling for Big Oil. And where is the environmental protesters’ take on the pipeline i…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: A Response to Christie Blatchford
Layton’s death turns into a thoroughly public spectacle
Yes, the sexist tweetstream against Blatchford is “horrid,” as Don Gardner, purveyor of all things empirically true, tweeted last night, and, yes, it is surprising that anyone reads her column…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: How can journalists know the truth? A Twitter dialogue
http://bit.ly/oljW0V My response to David Akin’s Blog Post about the safety questions raised in recent WiFi research.
The ground of this epistemological issue goes way beyond the binary opposition between objective and subjective, a relationship groun…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: The Beginning of Something: First we had the little page that would. Now we have the journalist who could
Last time I checked Kai’s Nagata’s blog, Why I Quit My Job, there were well over 100,000 views and 1000 responses to his coming out essay. Most of these were supportive, arguing in effect that Kai is an inspiration offering those of us living outside t…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: A Question of Sovereignty – a film by Kevin P. Miller
The film is highly manipulative, seeking our emotional identification through the victim testimonials, for example, and less than nuanced in its methods of weaving privacy legislation issues, free trade, and sovereignty issues together. But it has a…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Not Everyone Has Immigrated to Harperland
Having difficulty celebrating Canada Day fully knowing only too well how the Harper Regime has embarrassed us around the world – most significantly on global warming and climate change and, most recently, on a reasonable effort to warn the world’s pote…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: This Saturday in Canada: Stop the Tar Sands
This email is going out to all 350 supporters in Canada regarding a global action taking place this Saturday, June 18th being coordinated by several of our partner organizations.
Dear friends,
The Candian tar sands are the largest industrial project …
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: A Memo to David Akin
On the Hill: Memo to Brigette: There are no shortcuts in politics. It takes long, dull, dreary work http://bit.ly/mC2SsL
Everything you argue is based on the premise that political activity should take place within the system, with established instit…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Harperites Tax Policies Aggravate Gap Between rich and Poor
Toronto Star The full story
In addition to the weaknesses noted below in Les Whittington piece, one could also ask how effective is an accelerated reduction of the federal debt in creating jobs for Canadians? Since the Harperites are already shrinking…
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