Roboscam: Ten Things You can do to protect Canada’s democracy
Elections Canada has finally thought fit to let the public know the extent of Canadians’ concern about voter suppression actions during the May 2011 federal election. It says it has…
2012
4298…Bibi Snarls Traffic In Your Capital
Love him or hate him enough of you hate him to make security uber tight in Ottawa’s downtown core today. He, of course, is the boss of bosses in Israel,…
Time away is temporary
Posting of new items will be light for the next short while as I focus my time on others things. Typical of one person blogs, output occasionally suffers because life…
OpenMedia.ca Supports Call to Stop Internet Price Hike
openmedia_logo.jpg 500,000-strong group behind Stop The Meter campaign supports a reexamination of the costing in the usage-based billing decision March 2, 2012 – Today a group of independent ISPs, the…
Is This Just Too Hot For Any of You to Touch?
Anonymous dropped its Vic Toews bombshell today. It’s a very serious allegation of abuse of power which, if it stands, goes to the heart of the Harper government. I did…
Crisis Hits the General Consciousness – 50 years late.
Could this article in The Guardian be the mainstream media finally using the language that scientists and authors have been using for decades? This is the language that I have…
Crisis Hits the General Consciousness – 50 years late.
Could this article in The Guardian be the mainstream media finally using the language that scientists and authors have been using for decades? This is the language that I have…
Crisis Hits the General Consciousness – 50 years late.
Could this article in The Guardian be the mainstream media finally using the language that scientists and authors have been using for decades? This is the language that I have…
Crisis Hits the General Consciousness – 50 years late.
Could this article in The Guardian be the mainstream media finally using the language that scientists and authors have been using for decades? This is the language that I have…
Putting Harper In Perspective
Steve Harper used the Chretien-era “sponsorship scandal” as a springboard to power. Even though Paul Martin was cleared of any wrongdoing by the Gomery Commission, Harper didn’t hesitate to smear…
Did The Conservatives Have A Special ‘Swing Ridings’ Team in 2008?
OfHockeyRinksAnd Round-AboutsVille And why do we ask? Well. At the tail end of his recent column on the RoboCall incident that took place in the riding of Saanich in 2008…
Heartland, Gleick, and the Law
The Columbia Journalism Review talks to *gasp* actual lawyers in an attempt to answer the legal questions surrounding the Gleick/Heartland document leak. Related posts (randomly generated) Telcos Respond to Spying…
Anyone else gobsmacked by Postmedia attention to Robogate?
I’ve been a taken a little by surprise at the attention paid by Postmedia to the Robo-call scandal. While the Globe & Mail and Sun Media rest on the sidelines,…
EKOS Poll Shows Little Movement
There’s very little difference between the last EKOS poll and this one, despite the robocall controversy. The topline numbers (with changes from last poll) are as follows: Con: 31.5% (+0.1)…
Dear Protesters against Israel,
This video encourages thinking, something that some of you who are caught in the spirit of a movement in which you feel included, forget to do.
$#*! politicians say, pensions edition #nlpoli #cdnpoli
If you could get Noob Bloc-NDP member of parliament Ryan Cleary for what he is worth and sell him for what he thinks he’s worth, you could wipe out the…
Has Martin Singh compromised a Gurdwara’s charitable status? #ndpldr
I posted this morning about Martin Singh’s interesting release about hosting polls for the NDP leadership race. I noted that it didn’t seem like it violated any of the NDP…
Occupy Oakland Lowered Crime Rate
Amid all the poo flung at both sides of the Occupy vs. Police lines, it turns out a little benefit came from the Oakland occupation. The crime rate went down.…
Review of B.C.’s Dysfunctional Carbon Tax Aims for Repairs in 2013 Pre-election Budget
British Columbia’s controversial and widely misunderstood carbon tax will soon be subjected to a comprehensive review with the results likely to be revealed in next year’s budget, just in time…
Hey, I’m #68!
Okay… it’s a special, obscure category. Arts and Architecture. Not even in the pop-up menu in iTunes. Of 184 top free books in Art and Architecture. Number 68 and number…