Don’t Answer that Call: A Robocall Poster
This would be hilarious, if it weren’t so sad. The poster’s by Matthew Cope: good work!
March 2012
What’s happening to Vancouver? Iconic HMV gone. Now Sears.
Vancouver then HMV used be the icon at the corner of Burrard and Robson, the crossroads of Vancouver to many folks around the world. It was the image that many…
The NDP Leadership Foreign Policy Awards – 2012
The evening of the Academy Awards a good friend and I were reviewing the foreign policy platforms of three NDP leadership candidates, Tom Mulcair, Brian Topp and Peggy Nash. Here…
Canadian Online Surveillance Bill on Pause, But the Fight Continues
by Katitza Rodriguez | EFF Last Saturday, the Canadian government announced it would put proposed online surveillance legislation temporarily “on pause” following sustained public outrage generated by the bill. Since…
Nature to Harper Government: Let My People Go
One of the world’s leading scientific journals has criticized the federal government for policies that limit its scientists from speaking publicly about their research. The journal, Nature, says in an…
Politics, Re-Spun and The Rational Celebrate IWD Early, with Audience Participation
Politics, Re-Spun and The Rational will celebrate International Women’s Day early on Coop Radio on Monday, March 5, 2012 from 6pm to 7pm with an all-women show! Loren Spagnuolo will…
Journamalism: Broken Record Edition
The other day I asked whether the Globe and Mail has a published policy about the use of anonymous sources. Now I would ask the same question regarding both the…
Is That All There Is?
Comedian Rush Limbaugh – who is, it seems these days, the virtual leader of the increasingly deranged Republican Party – did the Democrats a huge favour the other day with…
31,000 Robo-call complaints. 31,000!
“No, this is not a Robo-call. I’m a real human being. Don’t hang up! Fudge, that keeps happening.” That number will surely grow larger. Elections Canada assures it can handle…
Did Elections Canada Just Tell 31,000 Canadians To Hold Their Horses?
Don’tWorryYourPrettyLittleHeads We’reOnItVille From an (apparent) press release from E-Canada: Statement sent to media this morning from Elections Canada: o The Office of the Commissioner of Canada Elections confirms that it…
Santa Claus Delivers a Positive Quarter Despite Corporate Scrooges
The Month: Christmas Gift Canada’s economy was buoyed by Christmas cheer as a December bounce more than offset slight declines in October and November to turn the fourth quarter positive.…
WeTopia: A Facebook Game that Funds Good Projects
We’ve looked at Facebook games that promote goodness before, and now we can WeTopia to that list. Instead of taking all those in-game purchases as profit WeTopia gives to charities…
Anonymous Update on Toews
Did Vic Toews reward one of his mistresses with an appointment to the Manitoba Court of Queens Bench? That’s the allegation and, it’s claimed, the reason Harper removed Toews as…
A Point Worth Noting
Keith Beardsley writes: Canadians are tuned into this story because they get these types of calls all the time. They understand the issue. Who hasn’t been called at the dinner…
RoboCalls Resolution? General Election Will Happen
It’s time for a wild prediction, based on information I have, interpretation of law and political power, a touch of math, and a hint of guts (plus a reversal of…
Martin Singh sponsors Ontario #ndpldr polls
Party leadership contests are not exactly like general elections. In a typical election there is one or two days when you have to make your way to the local community…
Liberal MP exposes hole in Resolution #58
In January, at the Liberal Party Biennial Convention, the National Women’s Liberal Commission proposed a Resolution that would seek to have the federal government penalize provinces that do not guarantee…
Ignatieff’s Liberals & Romney’s Republicans
The comparison between Canadian politics and American politics has been made more than once, the similarity of Liberal and Republican dominance in their respective countries during the last century is…