Robocon Scandal continues…
It started off with just a few robocalls… Now, it seems that there were thousands of robocalls and/or live calls designed to misinform/misdirect/insult/intimidate, etc. certain Canadian voters and these robocalls…
2012
A Real Hero: Australian Cameraman Glenn Edwards Dives Into Creek and Saves Autistic Boy
Autism news is seldom this good. Australian Nine Network cameraman Glenn Edwards dived into a swollen creek and saved an autistic boy, missing for 16 hours, from a swollen Creek.…
Should the NDP Renew Itself with a Shoot of Green?
Before our last federal election in 2010, I’d proposed a rationale for the NDP and Green Party to merge (from an NDP perspective). With the NDP leadership convention operating at…
False equivalency
No, Canadian media, embarrassing a minister isn’t just the same as trying to suppress voter turnout. Montreal Simon gets it: while Vikileaks may have embarrassed Toews, it was not illegal,…
Vic Toews Goes After Justin Trudeau
Uh oh. Con Zombie Alert. I see Vic Toews is going after Justin Trudeau. An angry Vic Toews wants an investigation into whether Justin Trudeau encouraged personal Twitter attacks against…
Articling How To – Canadian Lawyer4Students
Articling How To – Canadian Lawyer4Students Recently Omar Ha-Redeye and Simon Borys (that’s me) (both contributors to this blog) were interviewed by Michael McKiernan for Articling How To, an article…
Late night
That was quite a moving moment from the Iranian film maker who won the best Foreign Language Film award last night (beating out Canada’s Monsieur Lazhar). The director’s speech starts…
Radio Topics, February 28th
Happy Tuesday! We have a busy show lined up for this tuesday, so busy that we are adding an extra day to the month. At 8am, we’ll speak with Brennan…
Why Did Bob Rae Apologize?
Indeed! Why the hell did you, Mr. Rae? So it was a Liberal staffer behind the Twitter moniker of vikileaks. So? Glad someone was fighting back. Also, once again,…
30 Day Time Limit For Robocall By-Election Applications
If by-elections are to result from the recent reports of election fraud in a growing number of ridings then a 30 day time limit might already be ticking. The Canada…
Let me get this straight
We are being asked to believe that the same Harper who had our public servants roaming Canada counting and then reporting to him, on a weekly basis, the number of…
“[F]ocus, so, um, global dominion”–The Cry Hollywood defined?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. People are looking forward to the Cry Hollywood, a prayer event for Hollywood, led by Canada’s very own Faytene Grasseschi. Her…
The Ottawa Citizen needs a new website
The Ottawa Citizen needs a new website. The current one is way more frustrating than any website should be in 2012. It’s intermittently slow and unresponsive, and if you watch…
Robocalls – Guelph at the centre of the maelstrom
Well, it’s not quite how and why I’d like to see my current hometown in the news, but if it helps expose corruption from the 2011 election, I won’t complain.…
Self Inflicted Wounds
With the return of Parliament, today was the first chance for the opposition to put the Tories’ feet to the fire on Robocon. Instead, it was the Liberals who would…
Lessons three days in a row
Lately Mallory’s been quite sensitive and unhappy around her lessons. I know parents agonize about how much structured activity to give their kids outside of school and I guess Irene…
Video: Why are you protesting against Israel?
What I like about this video is the way in which it brings things down to one question, whose multiple answers are demystified, one by one. Beyond the specific subject…
Video: Why are you protesting against Israel?
What I like about this video is the way in which it brings things down to one question, whose multiple answers are demystified, one by one. Beyond the specific subject…
Video: Why are you protesting against Israel?
What I like about this video is the way in which it brings things down to one question, whose multiple answers are demystified, one by one. Beyond the specific subject…
Video: Why are you protesting against Israel?
What I like about this video is the way in which it brings things down to one question, whose multiple answers are demystified, one by one. Beyond the specific subject…