From LeadNow.ca ‘In just 48 hours, our MPs will debate a Conservative motion that the Canadian Medical Association, representing 70,000 doctors, is calling a ‘backdoor’ attempt to criminalize abortion. Prime…
…and this statement shows that, when it comes to self-government, the Harper cabal are a bunch of damned liars. “Canada’s great experiment in aboriginal self-government is about to collapse –…
Seriously, Dalton. You can hire better social media writers than this. Mud walkers? Don’t you mean “rubber boots”? (5) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
The U.S. National Park System currently encompasses more than 84 million acres of land in the United States, and if oil-funded politicians in Washington, D.C. get their way, those millions…
Where for art though El Roundo? I thought that by now our beloved Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, would have dispatched the shady MP from Peterborough to a far away place…
The Spider’s Web The spider, dropping down from twig, Unfolds a plan of her devising, A thin premeditated rig To use in rising. And all that journey down through space,…
Campaign 2012 R.I.P. 🙂
In honour of the annual talk like a pirate day:
There’s an old German proverb that goes, “Whose bread I eat his song I sing.” Enter a recent spate of reportage by the Public Broadcasting System’s (PBS) “Newshour.” In a…
The many provisions within the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement include a copyright chapter that could severely impact everyday Internet use. Fines would be administered, content and entire websites would be…
British Columbia’s unelected, unelectable and outgoing premier, Christy Clark, apparently doesn’t like her job any more. She’s beginning to sound like a mid-term Sarah Palin. …Clark says she tries to…
Mayor Stephen Mandel professes to be baffled by what Oilers owner Daryl Katz wants in the ongoing agony that is the arena negotiations. “I can no longer define what Mr.…
So, did you get a 3% raise last year? The average Canadian did. See the first chart below. If not, you’re behind the average Canadian. And even with a small…
Contains plot spoilers. Since we will not learn in school the lessons about the 1% we ought to know, many of us rely on movies and TV, so that through…
With the sale of the Shouldice Clinic to a health care conglomerate it is useful to review some of the literature comparing for-profit hospitals to non-profit hospitals. The results show…
I pilfered the heading of this post from a recent editorial in the Guardian: “Maple leaf ragged: what ails Canada?” The article suggests that our country’s “hardline stances” on a…
Just a reminder that NPD Outremont is sponsoring the first in a series of film forums on hot topics tomorrow, Thursday September 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Côte des…
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), is a non-profit organization that managers the dot-ca registry and addresses the day-to-day challenges facing Canada’s Internet. Every year, CIRA holds elections and, just…
Requiring Facebook for Your News Site (or website) – the Missed Opportunity
Last week I published I blog post titled Why Banning Anonymous Comments is Bad for Postmedia and Bad for Society in reaction to the fact that PostMedia’s newspapers( including the…