A Clarification From Young Tim
Tim Hudak, the boy who would be premier, has issued a policy clarification: Hudak said the thrust of his proposal to put alcoholic beverages in corner stores, supermarkets or private…
December 2012
Fourteen reasons
…we should never give up on eliminating violence against women: Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering…
doctors vs jason kenney: the fight continues
The Harper Government continues to scapegoat the most vulnerable among us, demonizing refugee claimants, denying them due process, forcing them out of Canada. Yesterday we heard that four people arrested…
FreedomWorks’ Pro-Coal Lobbyist Tom Borelli is Former Professional Pro-Tobacco Scientist
Tom Borelli, a former science director at Philip Morris who fought claims that secondhand tobacco causes lung cancer and respiratory illness in children, is now touted on Fox News as…
Je n’aurais jamais pu imaginer
Ma vie a été très mouvementée ces derniers temps. En démarrant OpenMedia.ca, je ne me serais jamais douté que notre communauté freinerait l’élan des géants des télécommunications, forcerait les politiciens…
Conservatives consider loosening firearms restrictions
This is not a good idea. I do not have a problem with guns — they are an integral part of Canada’s history and living heritage. That said there is…
Mathys Get Punked
A quick update to this post from April 2012, which is about a paper withdrawn from the journal Applied Mathematics Letters because it had “no mathematical content”. Now we have…
Get Out the Vote!
Well, we’re down to the wire here, folks. My daughter has made great strides over the last few days, rocketing up from 268 to 539 in the Harper-Collins “Share the…
Exxon Hates My Children, And Your’s Too
* If you think this ad should get on television, go to ExxonHatesYourChildren.com and donate some money (I did – and it brightened my day!).
Paying Attention to Details #nlpoli
Gabriella Sabau is an economics professor at Memorial University’s Grenfell campus out in Corner Brook. Sabau thinks Muskrat Falls is wonderful idea for three reasons. For one thing, it’s green. …
Are All Epidemiological Autism Studies Flawed?
Autism diagnoses have been increasing at incredible rates. Within the past two decades estimates of the numbers of persons diagnosed with autism has increased from 1 in 500 to 1…
Think You Don’t Live in a Conservative/Liberal/New Democrat Petro-State? Think Again.
If you don’t believe your political party of choice is selling out your grandkids and their kids you had better ask yourself why you could possibly believe that. The fossil…
The Day The Cons Went Wild
They have turned our Parliament into a circus, and our democracy into a farce.They strangle debate, they never answer any questionsJust repeat one Big Lie after the other.They mock their…
More cuts to Ontario deficit coming in January
The Ontario government’s Fall Economic Outlook retroactively confirmed that the 2011-12 deficit was $2 billion less than set out in the 2012 provincial budget. It also lopped $400 million off…
About Death By Trolley
Well hello, there! Have you been waiting long? No? Good. Please, do come inside. (Pro-Tip: Given that this is the blog of a Canadian, social etiquette dictates that you remove…
I’ll be brief
Just because today was looking pretty good, despite the zero visibility drive home, I thought I should share with you what I came home to. “Dear cenobyte, You submitted a…
Québec nationalists reaching out
Sovereigntists never took good care of their image outside the French speaking world. Wait... there's one word too many... allow me to rephrase. Sovereigntists never took care of their image…
Québec nationalists reaching out
Sovereigntists never took good care of their image outside the French speaking world. Wait… there’s one word too many… allow me to rephrase. Sovereigntists never took care of their image…
Québec nationalists reaching out
Sovereigntists never took good care of their image outside the French speaking world. Wait... there's one word too many... allow me to rephrase. Sovereigntists never took care of their image…