International Open Data Hackathon Updates and Apps
With the International Open Data Hackathon getting closer, I'm getting excited. There's been a real expansion on the wiki of the number of cities where people are sometimes humbly, sometimes…
November 2011
Occupy Regina Fined
- Hat with 99% Occupier signatures. The protesters of Occupy Regina were fined, one being arrested for not having ID on him while the City’s bylaw officer Flaman and Regina…
Retired cop blogs
Fred Pinnock retired from the RCMP in 2008 and today, with Scot Filer, another former cop, is managing partner in Lions Gate Investigations Group. Pinnock, former commander of BC's illegal…
Hijacking Penn State
As if the tragedy at Penn State wasn't bad enough in and of itself, people with unrelated axes to grind are now using it to get attention. 1. A spokesman…
Never mind the Fight on Alberta’s Right; think about the Scramble for Position Among the Opposition!
Post No. 711Quick! What’s the name of Alberta’s No. 2 political party based on popular support?The Wildrose Party, right?That’s certainly what the headline implied in the Edmonton Journal on Friday…
"I shouldn’t have showered with those kids"
As Gawker says about this quote from the Sandusky interview:Jerry, that is never not true.Now other victims are coming forward.Also, read Charles Pierce.
Stop Gouging Canadian Consumers
Stephen Harper is doing his best John Kerry impression, flip-flopping on his position on Canada's "supply management" program for dairy and poultry products. Supply Management is one of those fancy…
Stop Gouging Canadian Consumers
Stephen Harper is doing his best John Kerry impression, flip-flopping on his position on Canada’s “supply management” program for dairy and poultry products. Supply Management is one of those fancy…
Stop Gouging Canadian Consumers
Stephen Harper is doing his best John Kerry impression, flip-flopping on his position on Canada's "supply management" program for dairy and poultry products. Supply Management is one of those fancy…
Stop Gouging Canadian Consumers
Stephen Harper is doing his best John Kerry impression, flip-flopping on his position on Canada’s “supply management” program for dairy and poultry products. Supply Management is one of those fancy…
Appeal Court found judge has right to be stupid
Court upholds Hells Angel's acquittal, despite rude judge, Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun, Apr 30, 2008 The controversial acquittal of an elite Nomad member of the Hells Angels caught with 52…
Radio topics, November 15th
Hi all, Happy Tuesday! At 8:05 we’ll hear a conversation I had with Don Ferguson about his new book on the history of the Royal Canadian Air Farce. We’ll also…
Music Monday: Factory Floor – Free download of new song by folk artist Chris Ronald
Listening to Chris Ronald’s “Factory Floor” makes me think of brown eyed girls working in clothing factories in third-world countries. The easy folk music reaches from a time when factory…
Stimulative austerity bearing fruit in Britain? Not. Nor globally
George Osborne was quick out of the gates with the austerity as stimulus gambit. Which as everybody from myself to Paul Krugman predicted was going to be a flop. Osborne…
CBC takes the high road
Today the CBC turned over documents to the Commons ethics committee "under protest": In a speech before the National Press Club Foundation, CBC President Hubert Lacroix confirmed what NDP House…
The Sun’s effect on our national conversation is obvious, but what about the Globe?
It's a straightforward question: what are people talking about? What's capturing their attention and imaginations? Public conversation. Nothing gives you a better sense of a community or a society than…
The Occupy Movement and the Coal Mine Canaries
By the time I made it down to the Occupy Toronto campsite this weekend it was getting dark. There seemed to be more tents than ever, but although they were…
We Are The Many
Occupy yourself with this powerful video by Makana, a popular Hawaiian recording artist. At the APEC summit in Hawaii this past weekend Makana made a bold and courageous statement. He…
Copps’ Laws
I haven't picked a horse in the race for LPC President, but Sheila Copps is certainly the candidate I'm most familiar with - I was, after all, one of a…
Is OFAH lowering its standards to dance with the Tories on the long gun registry?
In 2004, the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters wrote a letter to then Prime Minister Paul Martin on behalf of the National Coalition of Provincial and Territorial Wildlife Federations…