Global: CRTC scrutinizes internet pricing
By Rebecca Lindell for Global GATINEAU, Que. – Bell Canada is asking Canada’s federal telecommunications regulator to adopt a new usage-based billing plan in a process set to change the…
July 2011
Sex-Negative Education and Rape
It makes sense. You tell kids they can't do something, they will try to find a way to do it. The trouble with the sex negative and abstinence-only education is…
Gerry Hummel Cartoon: Enbridge Rubber Stamp Panel
The latest cartoon from Gerry Hummel - referencing the Joint Panel Review for the hugely controversial proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. Rules defining public participation were recently announced by the…
Signals
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about signals. About how signals are more often than not ambiguous and/or prone to interpretation. Signals are everywhere; everything that commutes meaning or conveys…
Media Matters Petition for Congressional Review of Murdoch
Help Media Matters petition for a Congressional review of Rupert Murdoch's media empire and manipulation of the public.
Parliament In Review: June 21, 2011
Issue of the DayMuch of the day's debate was taken up with the final debate on the Cons' budget legislation, with the NDP particularly highlighting provisions to subsidize private mortgage…
Toronto-Iraq
Time to juxtapose, photos this time. Click for links. Has it really come to this?...
Egypt’s Revolution Continues To Burn
Lots of people hoped that everything would return to normal after the dictator Mubarak abdicated. They hoped that once the face at the top was changed people would be happy.…
BC Ferries Announces New Surcharge
AllTheGougingThatFitsSatirizeThisVilleIn the wake of the recent revelations about BC Ferries' Bossman David Hahn's gold-plated anchor around our collective necks, we were surprised to find that we'd missed this little item:Please…
OpenMedia.ca Goes to the UBB Hearing
Monday, July 11, marked the beginning of a two-week-long CRTC hearing on Internet metering. This is the result of your signing our online petition, your engagement with Internet openness and…
Apparently ‘free’ isn’t ‘cheap’: Parking Permit Costs at Candian Universities
Firstly, I have to give Macleans credit for getting it right most of the time at least in terms of University rankings, but in the following case there is some…
Steve Harper: Poster boy for voter suppression and dirty tricks!
Found on the front page of Dkos today..... original from the prorogue.... And it has me grinning....Bwhahahahaha! That sweater vest is still as smarmy and unsettling as ever.
CBC’s Search Engine: Google on Canada’s OTT (online video) fact-finding mission
CBC Search Engine's Jesse Brown interviews Jacob Glick, the Canada Policy Counsel for Google, about the CRTC's "fact finding mission" on Over-The-Top content (e.g. online video): read more
Canadians finding more time to relax: StatsCan
Ok, this proves StatsCan has lost its way!!! Actually, it probably shows the economy is still in bad shape and there are a lot of unemployed and underemployed: http://bit.ly/odjTnP http://bit.ly/odjTnP…
Hudak Takes Us For "Chumps"
The Ontario Liberals are taking the gloves off, with a very impressive attack ad. This morning I heard some reaction from the Progressive Conservatives, calling the ad a "sign of…
Need a Progressive Break?
Try Molleindustria a web site that hosts a gaggle of free and generally amusing progressive computer games. Among the offerings are:Leaky World, a playable theory, described as an interactive interpretation…
Bill Cosby: Right, Noah’s Ark
Each afternoon I’m going to post a video of some classic comedy bits. This one always made me laugh, though there is so much more to do with Noah. (You…
New Ontario Liberal Ad
I actually like this one. For one thing, it accentuates Tim Hudak's propensity to dorky expressions. Secondly, the reviews really have been that bad. The ad doesn't even get to…
The Face of Drought – Brasil
Severe drought is becoming commonplace around the world. Even the southern United States has been hard hit from Georgia and Florida to Arizona and California. Brasil's Amazon rainforest isn't being…