F-35, A Nuclear Strike Bomber?
Surprise, surprise – the F-35 is being designed with a nuclear weapons capability. Presumably even Steve Harper hasn’t got the guts to add a nuclear arsenal to Canada’s military establishment…
2012
UN broadband report predicts future “roaming seamlessly between networks”
The first ever report from the UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development, released last week, has found that Internet access has increased over the past year within households, but individual…
Harvest Time: Buying Local,
When Lee was a boy, buying local meant buying produce from the Central Valley. That’s where his family lived, and he has many stories of going to farm stands for…
Travelling BC & The Yukon with Deborah Coyne
As a BCer I’m always happiest in BC, and that’s where I am right now. I’m with Liberal leadership candidate Deborah Coyne on a 23-day tour of the province. After…
Interception of private communications
R. v. Doroslovac, 2012 ONCA 680 summarizes the law relating to the interception of private communications: To take first the obvious. The interception of private communications constitutes a search or…
Remittance Work and the Newfoundland Economy #nlpoli
For those who have been following the issue, SRBP and others were talking about remittance work back in 2007. It remains a key part of the current administration’s economic policy. …
Bargain Basement Citizenship and the Decline of Democracy
We ought to be outraged. Just about every day our media provides a new account of the decline of our democracy: the inadequacies of our electoral system and allegations of…
Rachel Maddow on Ellen
Christmas came early this year for fans of power lesbians when MSNBC host Rachel Maddow stopped by Ellen DeGeneres' talk show. Maddow dished on everything from politics to dancing with…
Pick On Someone Your Own Size, Premier McGuinty
Much rhetoric has been uttered of late about the need for everyone to ‘share the pain’ as Ontario’s McGuinty government attacks the provincial deficit in a manner that many think…
Writing for the iSchool’s InfoSpace Blog
The School for Information Studies at Syracuse University‘s InfoSpace Blog Today my first post as a blogger for Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies’ InfoSpace Blog was published. It’s a…
Divide and Conquer…
Logging of old-growth forest mulled by B.C. government CBC online Oct 10, 2012 Can anyone think of a more emotional hot point to distract BCers from the resumption of the…
(Almost) The Last Picture Show….
Granville’s last movie theatre closes CBC online Oct 10,2012 I was shocked to read that this is the last of the Granville theatres..when I left Vancouver a few years ago,…
Ottawa Set To Ban Huawei From Bidding On Telecommunications Work – MEANWHILE Sask Premier Brad Wall Signs Business Deal With ‘National Security Risk’
Brad Wall’s entire political schtick is to portray himself as a wizard of business and economics. However, signing a deal with Huawei, a Chinese telco is being slammed as risky…
The Youngest Old Man in the Liberal Party
The Ottawa Citizen’s Sue Riley looks at Justin Trudeau and sees the youngest old man in a Liberal Party full of old men. …The Liberal leadership hopeful’s much-anticipated launch speech…
5224…Premier Marois Asks Feds4Earthquake Help
La Belle’s biggest city hit with earthquake. You know she is on the phone to our beloved Prime Minister as I write this. WFDS
5223…The Mad Duck Is Dead
Alex Karras, who I first encountered in George Plimpton’s must read Paper Lion, has died at 77 from the same thing that kills a ton of football players. Hit in…
Is BC breaking its GHG law by pursuing natural gas development?
Today CCPA’s Climate Justice Project released a new report by yours truly, BC’s Legislated Greenhouse Gas Targets vs Natural Gas Development: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. It was…
CBC has much at stake in next NHL television rights negotiation by Bruce Dowbiggin
FRIENDS says it will be demanding answers about HNIC’s future on November 19 when the CRTC begins its review of the CBC’s broadcast licenses.