A damn good beginning! This overly authoritarian Conservative thug came within a hairs breath of putting every Canadian who uses a computer under police surveillance. His resignation is welcome and is the beginning of the end for Stephen Harper’s corrupt administration!The Star
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: What do Canadian companies have to say about mass surveillance in Canada?
We now know that the Canadian government asked Google for data on 128 Canadian users in 2012. This journalist recently investigated issues of Internet privacy and mass surveillance in Canada. He also asked Canadian companies about mass surveillance in Canada. Read their response. Article by Jesse Brown for Macleans: One
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: It’s biblical (updated)
And it was cut off by a zombie attack. It’s been nice knowing you. Adios. Your browser does not support the video tag Here is what slowed down the traffic. Check it out: Your browser does not support the video tag
Continue readingSudbury Steve May: Laraque’s Bourassa By-Election Gambit a Real Game Changer
The entry of Green Party of Canada’s Deputy Leader Georges Laraque into the Bourassa riding by-election is an absolute game changer, not just for the Montreal-area riding, but for the entirety of the Canadian political scene. Initially, the on-the-ground impacts in Bourassa will throw both the Liberal and NDP campaigns
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Tremaine Contempt Appeal Update
Terry Tremaine filed two documents last month regarding his appeal of the contempt sentence he received as a result of willfully ignoring the provisions of the Human Rights Tribunal decision. Since his previous attorney Doug Christie shuffled off his mortal coil Tremaine has hired an attorney based in Regina and
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Shameful: Keystone XL Proponent Using Deadly Lac-Megantic, Quebec Oil Train Tragedy To Promote Pipeline
Five people are confirmed dead and 40 people remain missing in the small hamlet of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, where a train with 73 carloads full of Bakken shale oil derailed explosively, incinerating 30 buildings on Saturday. Local resident Henri-Paul Audette told the Huffington Post that his brother’s apartment was next to the
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6223…It Is All About Dogs
Dog TV. These have to be the end days. Cut and paste from TVbythenumbers.com: DirectTV is launching a channel for dogs. No, not a channel about dogs. Canines are the target audience. According to Variety, Dog TV ‘s programming will feature, “programming comprises 3- to 6-minute video clips in three categories: relaxation,
Continue readingcartoon life: Between a rock and a wet place
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Continue readingDISSTEMPER: A Place to Call Home
NEWSFLASH! CBC News is reporting that as innumerable Conservative scandals became public in the month of May, Stephen Harper, leader of Canada’s Foundling Party, quietly applied to 21 nations for political asylum. According to recordings obtained via an unnamed source within the U. S. National Security Agency, Mr. Harper told
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: EnCana takes over Funding of Govt Study into Fracking Water Contamination
What promised to be a ground-breaking report into the effects of natural gas hydraulic fracturing on groundwater has devolved into a classic case of the fox in charge of the hen house. The US Environmental Protection Agency’s hotly anticipated study into links between fracking and water contamination in Wyoming has
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Buh Bye Vic
One of the better Mondays I’ve had of late, after hearing good ole’ Vic Toews has resigned/retired: Vic Toews, the gruff,mustachioed minister who was the face of the Conservative government’s tough-on-crime agenda through federal cabinet postings in public safety and justice, has cleared the way for a newcomer to the
Continue readingIn This Corner: Small town news in the ‘big city’
As a news junkie and former member of the Fourth Estate, I’ve always had a fascination not just with the actual news, but how it is presented. For example, as long as I can remember, rule no. 1 of the newspaper and TV game was Biggest Story Leads. Whether it
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Zombie Vic Toews Resigns
OMG. It seems too good to be true. And it's still a full two weeks before the next full moon.But it looks as if the Con zombie Vic Toews has stumbled out of his crypt for the very last time. Read more »
Continue readingDISSTEMPER: A Place to Call Home
NEWSFLASH! CBC News is reporting that as innumerable Conservative scandals became public in the month of May, Stephen Harper, leader of Canada’s Foundling Party, quietly applied to 21 nations for political asylum. According to recordings obtained via an unnamed source within the U. S. National Security Agency, Mr. Harper told
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Pat Robertson’s Digestive Problems
Oh, how the (self) righteous do suffer: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Terrace: Regulating Housing Dignity Is Far Easier Than You’d Think
How to Research a Slumlord! In this era of hyper neoliberalism, we are so used to tax-cutting governments chopping regulations off the books to allow the Blessed Free Market to guide human existence. This caveat emptor mentality, however, means lots of vulnerable, marginalized and economically precarious people are hung out
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: Prepared for Exposure
More details are out on PRISM, Tempora, and other illegal spying schemes by the NSA and friendly intelligence agencies, apparently even in Germany. The NSA even has a special department for such cooperation, the Foreign Affairs Directorate, he says. He also exposes a noteworthy detail about how government decision-makers are
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Justices of the Peace have authority to try summary conviction matters
As many have asked where this comes from here it is: R. v. Montgomery, 2010 ONCA 243: [2] The charges were prosecuted as summary conviction offences and their trial was conducted by Her Worship Justice of the Peace Diane L. Jackson. They were convicted of the offence under s. 35(1)
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: War Crimes Attorney Says He Will Get George W. Bush
Richard Hughes Political Blogger The ‘Truth Seeker’ is revealing legal efforts to arrest and prosecute George W. Bush and Barack Obama for illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Further charges for illegal surveillance, war crimes including torture, genocide, drone attacks world wide are being pursued against President Obama as well.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Leaving the backdoor open: Is the government putting your personal data at risk?
Giant. Unsecured. Data registries. As if it wasn’t bad enough that secretive government agencies are intercepting our personal data. read more
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