September 2011
Musical interlude
Tara Maclean - Evidence (Chris Lord-Alge Remix)
Liberal Math
This Ontario NDP fact check should warm the hearts of economists, accountants and math teachers everywhere: Are Liberals Smarter Than a 5th Grader? The Ontario Liberals put out a release…
Friday night
Have a good night.
Weekly Video News Update from the OpenMedia.ca Team
A quick update on the past week from OM's Shea Sinnott and Reilly Yeo. Thanks to the pro-Internet community, it's been a very exciting week! read more
Lingerie Football League – words escape me
Although to be fair, there really should be an Underwear Football League for men. Then you could have inter-league games. I'd pay to see that.Man, there's some serious hitting going…
4040…And They Didn’t Get To Hull Or Vanier
They would be the people at MSN who put Your Nation's Capital at 8th on the list of Worst Dressed Cities in the world.Number two was Vancouver and number one…
Friday night Robert Cray blogging
I'm just going to turn the place over to Robert Cray for the evening. His band will be along later but on this one he's backed by David Letterman's house…
‘Stop Online Spying’ public education campaign media round up.
The first couple days of our Stop Online Spying public education campaign have seen some wonderful media attention. Thank you, Canadians, for spreading the word about the proposed warrantless online…
Rob Ford’s War: The Fight Back Begins
His ghastly face stares out from newspaper boxes all over the city, like Big Bubbah. The message couldn't be clearer, or more urgent.Rob Ford has declared war on us. Now…
CRTC Takes First Step to Force Big Telecom Giant to Play Fair
openmedia_logo.jpg CRTC stands up to Rogers and demands Internet openness September 16, 2011 – Today’s events marked a small victory for Internet openness: the CRTC, Canada’s telecom regula...
One of these things is not like the other
On the left is the photo the Ontario New Democratic Party used as Andrea Horwath’s “official” photo this summer. The one on the right is the “new” official Horwarth photo.…
People in NE BC, prepare for this
ProPublica, Science Lags As Health Problems Emerge Near Gas Fields, September 16 By Abrahm Lustgarten and Nicholas Kusnetz Wallace-Babb was so sick she could barely move. She vomited uncontrollably and…
PC Leadership: first ballot predictions
I pride myself on having made some pretty accurate predictions in the 2006 Progressive Conservative Party leadership contest and so on this, the eve of the first ballot of the…
PC Leadership Candidate Profile – Doug Griffiths
Dark horse.Maverick.Agent of Change.Doug Griffiths has been called a lot of things in this race. My favourite, though, has to be "Weapon of Mass Discussion". Griffiths, the 9-year MLA from…
Nobel Prize Winner, Ivar Giaever, Resigns from the American Physical Society Over Global Warming Stance
Ivar Giaever.jpg On September 14, renowned Nobel Prize winning physicist Ivar Giaever announced his resignation as a Fellow at the American Physical Society (APS). The reason? His grievance ...
The fun with green energy columns continues
So John Ivison had another column today criticizing the Ontario Liberal government's green energy plan: here. The column focuses on a solar energy company that Dalton McGuinty visited this week,…
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I fashionably DISAGREE, SIR!
I take exception to the claim that ByTown peeps are among the worst-dressed in the world! An article on MSN Travel’s website said Ottawa’s bureaucratic, political stylings made it “perhaps…