There is a lot of rhetoric going around in the current BCTF/BC Liberal Government battle over teachers contracts. To set a context; BC teachers have been without a contract since…
One of the most surprising elements of the corporate media’s coverage of the robocall affair is the strange shifts that have occurred. Sun, as expected, backed the government. The Toronto…
There is a lot of rhetoric going around in the current BCTF/BC Liberal Government battle over teachers contracts. To set a context; BC teachers have been without a contract since…
The penguins at Sea World San Deigo 24/7 for the months of March and April. Enjoy.
Rafe Mair pulls no punches in this, the second of a two-part interview with BC NDP Leader Adrian Dix – grilling the potential future premier of BC on Liquid Natural…
This is nicely done, leader or Prime Minister, Manon Cornellier asks: Il y a moins de deux semaines, le 23 février bien précisément, Postmedia News révélait qu’Élections Canada menait une…
A German clothing retailer popular with far-right extremists has sparked outrage in Germany with a controversial store opening in Saxony. A new Thor Steinar store in the city of Chemnitz…
Any good pundit (for is that not what I aspire to become?) must dispense with caution and modesty from time to time and, in godlike fashion, attempt to predict the…
Do you know anyone who has recently bought a house with less than 20% down? I know a few myself, young twenty somethings with decent but not great income, who’ve…
Non-StopBadgeringIsThem ‘Ethical’FundraisingVille From Dammit Janet!: “It appears that the CPC has engaged in other scam practices with phones. It’s not enough that companies were paid (more on that below) to…
Chaplain Mike at The Internet Monk has a marvelous rant against recent John Piper comments on the tornadoes that hit the US. This isn’t Piper’s first foray into tornado theology,…
CANADIAN LABOUR SUDBURY: VALE’S ANTI-UNION MOVES PROVE FATAL FOR WORKERS: The end of the 2009-10 strike at Vale in Sudbury and Port Colburgh left company management emboldened. From their point…
The great man has come forth on www.polarisinstitute.org and announced that “Canadians wanting to do something about the environment can start by drinking tap water…” How edgy, avant garde and…
Today, the speaker of the House of Commons prime facie ruled against “Anonymous”. “What!” you may be asking yourself, how is that possible? It’s possible because of Parliamentary privilege. Still…
Keep thinking you live in a democracy, dear. What’s happened to my country? I went away for a couple of weeks and all hell broke loose. I came back to…
Well, howdy there, Beer Can Man. Ill-advised dress-up games seem to be a thing with you, eh? Let’s hope this doesn’t become a thing for anyone else… Meet Jacob Bovia.…
Jack Harris, the NDP MP for St. John’s East , spoke for three hours today against the Conservatives omnibus crime Bill C-10. He resumes his speech on Wednesday as he…
I guess winning the Georgia primary in tonight’s discount version of “Super Tuesday” may help Newt stay puft for a while longer in the race to be the standard bearer…
This time I am only going to provide 1 video. This is a video for Billy Bragg`s There is Power in a Union. Billy Bragg is a very important voice…
Attack of the Drones – How Surveillance May Change our Culture
I’ve been following the rise of do it yourself (DIY) drones for a few years now, ever since Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired magazine, introduced me to the topic…