MikeHudak/Tim Harris
Ontario News Watch has been gradually expanding beyond simple news aggregation into investigative jurnalism, with occasionally impressive results. For example, this story: Directly contrary to what PC leader Tim Hudak’s…
2011
library in a phone booth
I meant to include this in my recent library-related post, but I misplaced the link. So now this lovely little library has a post of its own. Please go here…
Man gets $100,000 after police mistake shampoo for drugs
In Canada there would almost certainly have been no compensation or, at most, a trivial sum. Going after the authorities for wrongful prosecution is very difficult here. http://bit.ly/rERobe…
New economic order needed to fight climate change: Dion
From Brockville’s Recorder & Times:The world needs a new economic order if it is to mitigate the effects of climate change, former Liberal leader and onetime environment minister Stéphane Dion…
Montreal Gazette: Groups says it’s time to dump Big Telecom
By Jason Magder for the Montreal Gazette About 94 per cent of Canadians get their Internet service from one of a handful of large telecom companies. Now a net neutrality…
Disturbing…in a good way…
Unsettling America t/here i found this… Waziyatawin Speaks to Occupy Oakland Waziyatawin is a Dakota writer, teacher, and activist committed to the development of liberation strategies that will support the…
True North
In today’s Globe and Mail, Robert Redford — who lately has spent a lot of time in Vancouver — offers another take on the Canadian-American partnership, which Stephen Harper trumpets…
Sad Spaceman gets philosophical
Alltop is worried about having its files decompressed.
constitution? never heard of it.
This and many others courtesy of BoingBoing, via the OWS Library blog.
who would name a baseball team after a serial killer?
London, Ontario, that’s who! Team president and general manager David Martin says the name “The London Rippers”, this logo, and cute marketing phrases like “Lurking in Labatt Park…” have nothing…
The dollar costs of lawful access
“Surveillance law could close small ISPs: Lawyer.” The ISP operators of the nation are concerned about the impact of the coming Harper government lawful access legislation. Most are assuming it…
The Denial Tango: As The Waters Rise Around Me, I’ll Just Hold My Breath And Say It Isn’t So
I’m on vacation this week on the beautiful West Coast. On Saturday I attended TEDx Victoria, which had a line-up of interesting and thought-provoking speakers who spoke for 10 minutes…
Is There Anything More Useless Than A MP?
I support the Liberal seat distribution plan, if only because it is the only presentation that doesn’t increase the number of MP’s, an occupation which is increasingly useless, redundant and…
Stephen Harper Inches Canada Even Closer Toward a Dictatorship
Within weeks of being elected in 2006, Stephen Harper limited access to his government, by both the media and the public. He closed down a searchable database that provided easier…
The HGRCMP
A new public relations protocol comes into being for the RCMP and it is leaked to the Toronto Star: “Government puts tighter leash on RCMP public statements.” So what are…
Autism Expert Psychologist Dissects Mottron’s "Misleading" "Mischief"
The mainstream media (MSM) has embraced with open arms activist/researcher Dr. Laurent Mottron’s “autism advantage” piece in Nature. In that article Mottron downplays the serious challenges faced by those like…
What’s On Randy Hillier’s Mind?
A rocky economy? Declining manufacturing numbers? Wind farms, even? No! For anyone interested, Mr. Schmidt has ended his hunger strike.
140 Law: Legal Headlines for November 21, 2011
Happy Monday to you all! Rachel is on vacation this week, so I’m filling in to bring you our regularly scheduled update of today’s leading legal headlines from Wise Law…
Occupy: Canadian media turns its back on the homeless, the marginalized, the disenfranchised
While many of us progressives like to think that the Occupy movement has awakened Canadians to the 99%, the reality is different. Editorial boards across Canada have seen to the…