Boston comes to Toronto
At @raptors final game, with Celtics – a tribute to Boston. #BostonStrong
April 2013
Review: The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Surveillance
This will be a little review of a little book. It is a useful resource — part of a series of small, focused No-Nonsense Guides put out by Toronto publisher…
Harper Conservatives Delay Robocalls Justice… Again!
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: The Harper Conservatives will not be introducing the comprehensive “election reform act” they promised Canadians, after all. The bill was due to be…
Experimental Lakes: Latest Victim of Harper Govt’s Anti-Science Ideology
The decision by Canada’s federal government to close the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), a unique and world-class research region in Northern Ontario, fits a sobering pattern. Canadian scientists, employed with…
Canadians demand choice in their local communities
Thank you to everyone who has helped spread the word about Canadians’ real experiences in our broken cell phone market and our citizen-powered action plan to fix it. Check out…
Conservative Ad Backfires
When the dust settles, I suspect the controversial Conservative attack ads see little air time, they quietly go away. We can debate the effectiveness of attack ads in general, but…
Conservative Ad Backfires
When the dust settles, I suspect the controversial Conservative attack ads see little air time, they quietly go away. We can debate the effectiveness of attack ads in general, but…
Conservative Ad Backfires
When the dust settles, I suspect the controversial Conservative attack ads see little air time, they quietly go away. We can debate the effectiveness of attack ads in general, but…
Conservative Ad Backfires
When the dust settles, I suspect the controversial Conservative attack ads see little air time, they quietly go away. We can debate the effectiveness of attack ads in general, but…
NOT Offended By Brad Paisley and LL Cool J’s “Accidental Racist” Lyrics
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Last week “Accidental Racist”, the new duet by country singer Brad Paisley and rapper LL Cool J made a lot of people uncomfortable.…
The Charter of Rights – Why I’m a Liberal
31 years ago today, the Queen of Canada signed into law the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, along with the rest of the newly-patriated Constitution of Canada. The Charter…
5872…Outdoor NHL Hockey In Los Angeles Next Year
This I gotta see. Which, I presume, is the point. My buddy Len Berman from Len Berman’s That’s Sports drops this knowledge on me which I pass on to you:…
Harper cuts funding to Health Council of Canada – will the provinces step in?
The Health Council of Canada’s days may be numbered. A creation of the 2003 10-year health accord between the provinces and the federal government, the Harper government has indicated that…
Calgary muzzles artists critical of tar sands
The Raincoast Conservation Foundation had a permit from the City of Calgary to display their travelling art exhibition, Artists for an Oil-Free Coast, at city hall. However, once the show…
Abandoned Community Pastures At Risk #cdnpoli #skpoli
The last remnants of a unique ecosystem on Earth are entering what is potentially their last years of natural existence. This will lead to the extinctions of some plants and…
Greens Outpolling Liberals on Vancouver Island
If the polls hold for the next four weeks, the governing B.C. Liberals will be handed a third place, as in last place, finish on Vancouver Island when voters get…
Windows 8 is a flop, and there is little they could have done differently
The recent release of an IDC report shines a pretty bad light on Microsoft. Windows 8 is selling very poorly with the steepest declines ever in the PC market, and…
Groundbreaking genome research explodes ‘one people’ myth of Jewish history
Eran Elhaik, an Israeli-American geneticist working out of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, recently had his research published in the prestigious journal Genome Biology Evolution. The groundbreaking study –…
5871…He Would Destroy Stephen Harper
He is Justin Trudeau. Even the sworn enemy of all that is not Blue, The Toronto Sun, said so this morning. Problem is the question says “If the election was…