North Sea, Texas (Noordzee, Texas), from Bavo Defurne
Set in a village on the beautiful, dune-filled Belgian coast, North Sea, Texas (Noordzee, Texas), from director Bavo Defurne, is a love story involving two boys, Pim and Gino (convincingly…
August 2011
140 Law – Legal Headlines for August 22, 2011
We hope that everyone had a relaxing weekend! Now for the leading legal headlines, from Wise Law on Twitter:New data spill shows risk of online health records -http://t.co/6CTzhyvSpokes: A New…
Religious Entitlement For The Rest Of Us
I originally wrote the following article—rated the greatest article of all time by an independent body that I just formed—for the July 2010 edition of Outlooks magazine. Despite being published…
Lawful access legislation to retain warrant requirement?
Fantino last night: Speaking to the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police in Windsor, Ont. Sunday evening, associate Minister of National Defence Julian Fantino said the government will retable a…
Misleading the House: recall the whole recall power story
Why would Nalcor mislead the people of Newfoundland and Labrador, asks finance minister Tom Marshall with all the seriousness he can muster. Yes folks, the fellow with one of the…
Northern tragedy vs Harper’s ego
Stephen Harper has curtailed his trip to Resolute for the Operation Nanook arctic exercises in the wake of the First Air plane crash that happened over the weekend. That exercise…
Churn baby churn
Kathy Dunderdale is setting a record for changes in the senior public service.Dunderdale upped her score last week with a single announcement that made seven changes at the executive director…
"Royal" Military made the New York Times!
Harper has added "royal" to both the sea forces and the air force of the Canadian Forces. There is absolutely no point in changing the name. It's a waste of…
protesters take to the whitehouse over the alberta to texas keystone xl pipeline.
Sixty-five Americans were arrested after a peaceful protest in front of the Whitehouse against the construction of TransCanada‘s Keystone XL pipeline, a 1,700 pipeline that would carry unprocessed bitumen from…
Hey! April is a Fan!
Well color us surprised to find out that April Gaede read our latest article concerning her and her.... uhm... endorsement of Barack Obama: Oh, April, you have it all wrong.…
Little Victor Update | Repetitive cacophony
A few years ago there was an episode of Family Guy called “Stewie Loves Lois”, where Stewie — the family baby who has spent most of his life trying to…
Kathy Shaidle Whines About Not Having A Column
Five Millimetres of Integrity blogger Kathy Shaidle is upset that she doesn’t have a column, but an actual journalist (who happens to have a transsexual history) does. Well cry me…
Sorry for lack of posts
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I have had the flu, plus we have been dealing with some health issues for Sam, our black lab (that's Sam in the…
Patent That Becomes a Tool for Obstructing Innovation Needs to Go
Software patents have become an unnecessary obstruction to innovation. Company that used to oppose software patent are spending billions to acquire them (including Google). Small time developers (which could include…
you can look it up
"Can anyone on Capital Hill read?” demanded a sign held by a protester at one of the first Tea Party rallies, back in February of 2009."If so read the ConstitutionAs…
Deep thought
Nothing says open and accountable government like a little-known fiscal commission labouring in the shadows to decree what public services will get slashed and/or sold off. That is, unless it's…
A mixed day
On the one hand, the rainy cold weather, combined with a birthday party for her Nibs, gave me some daylight time to work on a long-neglected volunteer project. And clean…
Music for a Sunday: And do you feel scared?
I do. But I won’t stop and falter: And after a day like the one I just had, things had BETTER get better.
Design Matters: Looking at a Re-themed Bugzilla
I'll be honest. There was a time when I thought design didn't matter. To my credit, it was a long time ago... but I used to think, if the tool…