Q. What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?
A. Frostbite.
October 2012
Shale Gas Industry Brings PSYOPs and Spy Ops to Poland
Roughly a year ago today in Houston, the shale gas industry was caught red-handed discussing its use of military tactics and personnel on U.S. soil to intimidate and divide communities…
Out With the Old
As regular visitors might notice, the design for the blog has changed slightly. The old design was due for an update, and a comment to that affect prompted the decision…
Assessment of accounts
McCarthy Tétrault LLP v. Guberman, 2012 ONCA 679, released today, has clear language upholding the general rule that clients will be given a right to assess a lawyer’s account: The…
Presentation to Etobicoke York Community Council
Here are my speaking notes, below, from this afternoon’s Etobicoke York Community Council hearing on a condominium development at 34-50 Southport Street in my Toronto neighbourhood. Quite unfortunately, the application…
President Obama needs to morph into Moses if he wants to win
US cultural code for president Is the Cheese Doctor (Clotaire Rapaille) right? Does Mitt Romney fit the American code for president better than Obama does right now? That’s what Mike…
Leadership Round-Up
With Thanksgiving out of the way and everyone back in the swing of things, let’s take a look at some of the things that have developed since we last posted.…
Tired of the high cost of hospital parking? Try not paying
If there is one universal issue that irks Ontario hospital patients, it’s hefty parking charges. In many towns the only “pay” parking is at the hospital. Where there are commercial…
F-35, A Nuclear Strike Bomber?
Surprise, surprise – the F-35 is being designed with a nuclear weapons capability. Presumably even Steve Harper hasn’t got the guts to add a nuclear arsenal to Canada’s military establishment…
UN broadband report predicts future “roaming seamlessly between networks”
The first ever report from the UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development, released last week, has found that Internet access has increased over the past year within households, but individual…
Harvest Time: Buying Local,
When Lee was a boy, buying local meant buying produce from the Central Valley. That’s where his family lived, and he has many stories of going to farm stands for…
Travelling BC & The Yukon with Deborah Coyne
As a BCer I’m always happiest in BC, and that’s where I am right now. I’m with Liberal leadership candidate Deborah Coyne on a 23-day tour of the province. After…
Interception of private communications
R. v. Doroslovac, 2012 ONCA 680 summarizes the law relating to the interception of private communications: To take first the obvious. The interception of private communications constitutes a search or…
Remittance Work and the Newfoundland Economy #nlpoli
For those who have been following the issue, SRBP and others were talking about remittance work back in 2007. It remains a key part of the current administration’s economic policy. …
Bargain Basement Citizenship and the Decline of Democracy
We ought to be outraged. Just about every day our media provides a new account of the decline of our democracy: the inadequacies of our electoral system and allegations of…
Rachel Maddow on Ellen
Christmas came early this year for fans of power lesbians when MSNBC host Rachel Maddow stopped by Ellen DeGeneres' talk show. Maddow dished on everything from politics to dancing with…
Pick On Someone Your Own Size, Premier McGuinty
Much rhetoric has been uttered of late about the need for everyone to ‘share the pain’ as Ontario’s McGuinty government attacks the provincial deficit in a manner that many think…
Writing for the iSchool’s InfoSpace Blog
The School for Information Studies at Syracuse University‘s InfoSpace Blog Today my first post as a blogger for Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies’ InfoSpace Blog was published. It’s a…