Tariffs_100x100_120117.png Pro-Internet community lauds CRTC decision to open up Big Telecom’s costing process October 26, 2012 – The CRTC announced today that Big Telecom will have to make more of…
Wow!! excitement. excitement. a real, pro football team might come to Moncton (oops. sorry, Metro). Wowie! That’s nice. But just for once, I’d like to see a financial breakdown of…
R. v. Berhe, 2012 ONCA 716 deals with the admissibility of non-expert “recognition evidence” deriving from the examination of a photograph or videotape. The Court holds: It has long been…
WOOFJust four months old and very friendly
This is the last time I’ll be giving Pirate Therapy and Other Cures away for free, so download it while you can. If you don’t have a Kindle, there’s lots…
President Romney and Vice President Joe Biden, an unlikely but not impossible scenario as this article highlights. Some commentators say the presidential race is a close one, if there is…
Cellist Marion Arthur-Kiss and pianist Nicolette Lagacé released several respective solo albums before joining forces to form Thorn in 2010. Now with their debut album, Electric Motherboard, the duo has…
Columnist says that building an open and inclusive digital commons is the best, and perhaps the only, hope the public has of sustaining a public culture that can underwrite and…
The race is on for the up-and-coming U.S. tar sands industry. To date, the tar sands industry is most well-known for the havoc it continues to wreak in Alberta, Canada…
Simon has a new word. It’s a little word, and it’s not the most exciting thing a parrot has ever said. But there’s just something about the way he says…
Canadians ‘need to know’ about mechanically tenderized meat – in CBC online October 26,2012 Warning!!! Vegetarians, this posting contains suggestive references to meat…. Once again, greed trumps safety… Since I…
Today is Wear it Pink Day in the UK, which is a fundraising initiative to fund breast cancer research, and to make this year unique the organizers are auctioning off…
So the Globe and Mail has just put up a new paywall which has been a growing trend amongst news outlets in the last few years. I remember back in…
R. v. Boudreault, 2012 SCC 56 deals with two important issues – the meaning of “care and control” in the context of a motor vehicle and when a Crown can…
The Pleasant Park PS / Hawthorne PS Giant Booksale is tomorrow (Saturday)! 9am – 1pm! Woot! THOUSANDS of books for all ages and all (well, most) tastes! The forecast calls…
by We Are Powershift From October 26 to October 29, 1000 youth from across the country will converge at Power Shift 2012 in Ottawa to galvanize a broad movement pushing…
I am excited to announce that my two books of Canadian history through the stories of activists, Resisting the State and Gender and Sexuality were released by Fernwood Publishing in…
The decision to do a long-term private deal to build and maintain the new Kingston rehab and mental health hospital suggests the McGuinty government is ramping up its efforts once…
The China Institute of the University of Alberta has released a poll showing that Albertans, by better than a two to one margin, oppose investments in the province’s fossil fuel…
