One Newsroom. Two Stories. @nlpoli
For the English crowed in Newfoundland and Labrador, @cbcnl gave its audience one story from the Auditor General’s report. They focused on horrendous salary increases in one government agency. From…
January 2013
Alberta presents: [In The] Red-TV
Premier Redford to address Albertans in Thursday night televised speech Hey, Albertans! Remember Ed-TV? I thought not, you’re not really supposed to remember Ed-TV because in Ed-TV a 5 year…
The Full Measure of High-Carbon Bitumen
Bitumen boosters in the Alberta and Federal governments, Big Oil and the pipeline hustlers are vigilant in ensuring the public never gets an overall picture of the impact of the…
Sierra Club to engage in civil disobedience to stop Canadian tar sands
by Sierra Club | Jan 22, 2013: San Francisco, CA – The Sierra Club Board of Directors has approved the one-time use of civil disobedience for the first time in…
Excited for OLP!
After some fear that the Ontario Liberal Party would be excluding us blog heads from #olpldr, mercifully we’re going to be strongly represented there. Much I will live tweet, but…
When the Liberals Jettison Liberalism
Thomas Walkom has a point. Why are today’s Liberals so detached from liberalism? …it’s not clear what the Liberals represent any more. They would like voters to think of them…
America to Open Combat Roles to Women
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta wants to open U.S. combat roles to women. I’ve got a better idea. Why not make them female only? There’d be a lot fewer stupid wars…
Harper Frightened, Seeks Political Cover
When Steve Harper says he wants “consensus” it means only one thing – he’s run out of guts and wants political cover from the opposition. Harper wants the opposition to…
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network Seeks Public Support For Licence Renewal Process
by Aboriginal Peoples Television Network | Jan 23, 2013: Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) has submitted an application to renew its licence to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).…
Canadians are the heaviest Internet users – in the world.
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) found that Canadians are the heaviest Internet users in the world. Now that’s an accomplishment! However, we lag in gains, prices, and speed. This…
Throw National Post a Lifeline
I haven’t encountered a Kelly McParland article that I can say I agree with. His latest, about Elizabeth May’s attempt to subvert the stalemate in Parliament amongst the opposition parties,…
CRTC tells carriers to support 911 text messages for hearing, speech impaired by LuAnn LaSalle
The CRTC has ruled that Canadian wireless carriers must make changes to their networks and systems to support 911 emergency text messages from hearing and speech-impaired persons.
Suspending and extending an artificial reality
Well the United States continues to impress me. I mean really, suspend the debt ceiling? Brilliant. Just think how many debt ceiling showdowns, fiscal cliffs, etc could have been avoided…
For reasons that shall become clear…
… I recognize that I will likely be scooped in the next day or so on a hot story happening in town. I have some of the same documents; however,…
Foolish words that still resonate
Foolosopher. What a wonderful word. Not much in use these days, but it ought to be. It is a portmanteau word, first used in English way back in 1549*, according…
Refugee Health: Medical students freeze outside waiting for Matthews
There were hard lessons learned today about how democracy is practiced in this province. About 60-70 protesters, most young medical students, spent more than an hour and a half today…
Jon Foley on why environmentalists disagree with each other
I think a lot of debates we see in the environmental community boil down to people having different “theories of change”. A theory of change is simply that: a theory…
Very amateur investing, yellow-tinted glasses edition
(originally written Oct 2, 2011. Part of Great Upload of 2013.) I find it amusing that, while many of my fellow Vancouverites are attending places of worship this Sunday morning,…
Sun News Network pleads with anti-choice group to back its quest for ‘right to life’ subsidy
Sun News Network commentator back in the day complaining about how media outlets want the government to solve everything. This goes for Sun News Network and its financial problems too,…
5554…At Least They Are Awake
Global News tells all that a study done by somebody, somewhere, says that one in five Canuck High Schoolers mix booze with energy drinks. WFDS