Competing for the Internet: Weekly Updates from OpenMedia.ca
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2011
Jay-Z ripping off Occupy Wall Street?
Looks like it. Jay-Z is releasing a new line of T-shirts in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement Friday via his Rocawear clothing label, but he doesn't plan to…
Competing for the Internet: Weekly Updates from OpenMedia.ca
Here's Lindsey and Reilly with your Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca: - The OpenMedia.ca Team
Massive protest in Quebec against huge hike in tuition fees
About 200,000 university and college students across Quebec shut down their campuses on November 10 to protest a projected 75% increase in tuition fees in the recent budget of the…
A small story lost in Remembrance Day: Conservatives plead guilty to violating election rules
The plea agreement saves the Conservatives from potential embarrassment of conviction after trial and the reduced charges let the Party spin it made an honest mistake. Still, it's hard to…
Bangkok floods
The following picture shows the situation at one of the Bangkok airports. It was a devasting storm and flooding.
Canada’s climate change policy—drinking the Kool-Aid
The warnings continue. And they are ominous. In its annual World Energy Outlook released November 9th, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that the world will lose the chance to…
We must remember war in order to stop it – Friday Film Pick: Come and See
For Remembrance Day watch Klimov's classic anti-war film COME AND SEE.
Old news, aged quickly
Today, media conglomerates are not only influenced by Big Money interests, but they are often themselves Big Money interests. - Cameron Gaut I wrote earlier that the Toope Report helps…
Remembrance Day 2011
I belong to a family, and a clan, with a 300-year military tradition. I have attended more Remembrance Day ceremonies than I can count. And hated them all.I shudder at…
human rights activists back in canada, speaking out
Press conference with David Heap and Ehab Lotayef, on their abduction, kidnapping and detention by Israeli forces: here.And a message from the Irish boat:
Quote: Whiteness and Class
I know people who fit the entire description. I was raised among them -- klansmen, gay-bashers, wife-beaters, and child-rapists with a penchant for incest, as well as moonshiners, cardplayers, snake-handlers,…
Nowak: Canada’s embarrassing broadband access problem
By Peter Nowak I had to take a deep breath before writing today’s post, mostly to get all the four-letter words and other obscenities out of my system. There are…
When up is down and down is up
BC Agriculture Minister Don McRae, coordinating with federal agencies, claimed last week there are no confirmed cases of Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) in British Columbia salmon. Mcrae said, "It is…
How America’s Greatest War Correspondent Remembered
From Chris Hedges' "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning""When Ernie Pyle, the American war correspondent in World War II, was killed on the Pacific island of Ie Shima…
Koch Brothers Behind Push To Dismantle EPA
Koch Fat Cat.jpg During last week’s Americans For Prosperity (AFP) event, a common theme kept creeping into the speakers’ presentations: Dismantle the EPA. And as the major funders of...
Matt Taibbi is beginning to get it about the Occupy movement
Most political/cultural/populist movements begin in back rooms, in clandestine meetings over a period of years. Many times the resultant movement looks little like the disorderly chaos of the initial gatherings.…
I want some bunny to love
Who thinks I should get a baby angora rabbit? I met a grown-up one at KnitKnackers the other day. Her name is Pandora and I fell head over heels in…
Tough On Crime For Thee, But Not For Me
You’ve gotta hand it to those Harpercons. Really. I mean, only they can declare victory after pleading guilty to avoid trial for Senators Finley and Gerstein. Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have…