CGO Consumer Alert: Black Ops 2
The Canadian Gamers Organization is closely monitoring several situations with the announcement of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Admittedly Black Ops 2 developer Treyach has stated that there will…
2012
14 economic advisors Flaherty consults on policy and budgets are all from the financial sector: Fiscal contraction doesn’t work
The 14 economic advisors Flaherty consults on policy and budgets are all from the financial sector, mostly banksters. Here’s what James K. Galbraith says about the implicit danger of such…
Soft landings
Another change in BC Premier Christy Clark’s office, Andrew MacLeod, The Tyee, May 2, 2012 The Premier’s office is now Scott free, which conveniently fixes a CBC problem. They had…
Canada Bill C10 hunger strike update: Ottawa Hydro has cut me off
I feel as though I’ve been wrenched from the light of the world and exiled to the heart of darkness. My friends, I just want to let you all know…
“Differentiation:” The à-la-carte Way to Hire More Course Instructors
I’ve written before about attempts in Canada to create more separation between university teaching, on the one hand, and university research, on the other. In 2009, I wrote this opinion…
Rupert Murdoch unfit for journalism
A British parliamentary panel has concluded that press lord Rupert Murdoch “is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company.” They might equally have said…
Heartbreaking News for Canada’s Water Lovers
MMSampling.jpg This is a guest post by Mark Mattson, President of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper. Republished with permission from Waterkeeper, original post here. I remember the first time I sat around…
It is troubling that 30 years after proclamation of the right to a speedy trial, that right remains precarious in some jurisdictions
R. v. Wong, 2012 ONCA 286 has some useful language about delay in the Ontario Court of Justcie: We cannot leave this case without noting one troubling aspect of this…
A Healthy Society – Chapter 3 Discussion
Chapter 3 of Ryan Meili’s A Healthy Society focuses on the effect of income – both in total and in distribution – as a determinant of health. But while there’s…
Conrad Black, Stephen Harper & Jean Chretien: A Study in Contrasts
Which Prime Minister do you think more closely reflected mainstream Canadians’ views of Conrad Black, the Lord who was not allowed by Prime Minister Cameron to sit as a Tory…
Did Blackberry miss the ‘App Store’ boat?
With all the hype around the new Blackberry 10 O/S, I think a bigger and more important question isn’t being asked. How many Operating Systems can one developer support? As…
5 Years For Good Behaviour
Will the NDP live up to its latest promise? So far, Elizabeth May (who was oddly omitted from this story even though she pioneered the modern foray into non-House-heckling) has…
Newsflash: Hudak crony admits he hired Ornge insider, received thousands! Now with other Conservative cronies!
Here: A prominent Progressive Conservative who sat on a variety of ORNGE boards and gave a consultancy job to founder Chris Mazza’s girlfriend told a hearing probing the air ambulance…
My New Favourite Blog
Did I mention I like Scotch Whiskey?
Dear Line "The Godfather" Beauchamp,
Well, isn’t it ironic that while you have stated that you won’t sit at the same table with the student organization La CLASSE because the latter supposedly does not respect…
Compromise be gone, how radical change cannot be achieved without violence
I think the world by now generally understands that great social change, the kind that affects the public generationally, like Martin Luther’s Civil Rights Movement and Mahatma Gandhi’s fight against…
My New Website: GeoffBCampbell.com
Last night I finished putting up the bare bones on my new personal website/blog at GeoffBCampbell.com. Currently I only have an About page, Education, and Experience (Communications Assistant, Online Editor,…
Open Data Movement is a Joke?
Yesterday, Tom Slee wrote a blog post called “Why the ‘Open Data Movement’ is a Joke,” which – and I say this as a Canadian who understands the context in…