No SOPA: Dawg’s goes dark tomorrow
Above image courtesy of pale at A Creative Revolution, where the issue is set out. More here. Michael Geist has been sounding the alarm for some time, and urges support…
2012
Hello rear derailleur, good to feel you again
The past couple of days have been evidence of why some people like single gear bikes in winter. My cassette has been covered in solid ice and my rear derailleur…
Are These Joe Oliver’s Radical Environmentalists?
Read the testimony of First Nations chiefs as they talk about their stewardship of and relationship with their lands. No oil pipeline here: Enbridge Northern Gateway… Chief Alfonse Gagnon told…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats taking over furniture.
NDP Restores Online Convention Registration for Youth and the Unwaged
And the NDP has come to their senses and restored the ability for youth and unwaged delegates to register for convention online. It’s good to see that all members are…
Fact-Free GOP
The Daily Beast’s John Avalon highlights just two examples of egregious misstatement of fact from last night’s Republican debate. Sadly, this just barely scratches the surface of the staggering shitpile…
On schadenfreude
In October 2006, the NDP had a clear position on dual citizenship: “Narrow-minded members of the government should open their eyes and get a grip on the essence of Canada’s…
Convention Recap
Despite the “blogger ban”, the interwebs are full of LPC Bienial reaction. For those of you thirsty for more first hand recounts, here’s what some of the Liberal delegates who…
Art Threat will go dark for SOPA Strike
SOPA is the Stop Online Piracy Act being proposed by the US Congress. It is an overbearing, industry sponsored piece of legislation that, in effect, holds internet culture hostage in…
Toronto Prevails Over Ford Nation in Budget Vote
Liveblog: City Council’s Final Debate on the 2012 Budget The people of Toronto can breathe a sigh of relief (for now). For the most part, the majority of Toronto City…
Shirish Chotalia: Privy Council cover-up
Perhaps unsurprisingly in an era in which political partisanship outweighs evidence, the Privy Council Office has refused to take action against incompetent bully Shirish Chotalia, current head of the Canadian…
Why this site is going dark at midnight
Perhaps you’ve heard of SOPA? If not, you will have by midnight. That’s when this site, and many others, are going dark in protest. I’ve added a plug-in (called, appropriately,…
The Oil Pimp and the Dalai Lama
He’s always been an oil pimp, but I thought I better give him a new costume eh? Because these days that’s ALL he ever talks about. “When you look at…
Video: The Gay Rights Movement
A trailer to raise funds for Second Class Citizens, a documentary on the gay rights movement by Ryan James Yezak, this short video is a powerful historical document in itself,…
mapping alberta’s nominated election candidates – january 2012.
Following my most recent update of election candidate nominations this morning, here are maps of the new electoral boundaries showing where candidates have been nominated for each of the five…
Permission Denied: Bulgaria Says "No" To Chevron’s Exploratory Fracking
Bulgaria Protest Tsvetelina Beloutova.jpg No kinky stuff, Bulgaria declared as it limited Chevron in using only conventional drilling techniques and not hydraulic fracturing. The Bulgarian government voted to prohibit Chevron…
Toronto Star: Petition pushes for competition as mobile phone behemoths seek to gobble wireless spectrum
By Morgan Campbell for the Toronto Star A grassroots organization is planning the biggest online petition in Canadian history, hoping to encourage the one thing they think can keep cellphone…
Indie cell phone provider WIND supports Stop The Squeeze campaign
Since the launch of the Stop The Squeeze campaign, we’ve seen an amazing level of support! Most recently, indie cell phone provider WIND Mobile has shown their support in a…
Ethical Oil: Ties That Bind
There is a good article on HuffPo today that details the links between the Harper government and the Ethical Oil propaganda group. Take a look at the following chart: Of…