Hey Canada, Finland just did something epic. Really epic. It’s time for us to do the same. Let’s start the discussion to shape our digital future. Make your voice heard…
The picture above, for those visiting my blog for the first time, is my son Conor now 17+ years old. I love him dearly and he brings great joy into…
You’ve all seen it on TV, in the newspapers, and online – the overwhelming amount of adulation and gawking at the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s new son, Prince George…
You may have missed it, since the story slipped largely under the radar, but a baby was born in England Monday. As this post will show, I’m a staunch republican…
OTTAWA—More than 200 public-interest and aid organizations are formally asking Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government to reveal who’s on the “enemy” lists given to new ministers in this month’s cabinet…
My GreenCarReports article on Tesla Model S sales in Canada this year has been popular enough to reach second-place in GCR’s “Most Popular this week” sidebar. Very cool, and almost…
Things are bad under Prime Minister Harper. They’re getting worse, even since the last time I wrote about Harper’s soft fascism. But how do we measure it? It’s so…subjective, unless…
“We don’t speak of these things, not in front of the children.” That, according to Gwynne Dyer, is the approach being taken by our political and military leadership when it…
There is a robust debate happening in university halls, around religious congregations, and at individual kitchen tables nationwide. The driving question: Should we divest from the fossil fuel industry? The…
Former US Foreign Service Officer Steven Kelly has an interesting comment on the results of open borders in The New York Times today. He notes that thousands and thousands of…
Spoil factor never sounded so good: http://t.co/fr9YN5ncUR #OttSouth #onpoli— Bronwyn Funiciello (@BFuniciello) July 24, 2013 One would like to think she’s in it to win, but apparently not.
Leave it to the head of Canada’s most disliked cellular provider, Rogers CEO Nadir Mohamed, to whine that Canada doesn’t need a fourth major cellphone company. Okay, Nadir, how bout…
It is funny. Actually it is new Gieco commercial.
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – John Myles discusses the Cons’ war on evidence: The mandatory Census was the lifeblood of almost all social and business planning. It provided…
The National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has been given permission leave the Moscow airport where he has been stranded for over a month. Snowden applied for… Read More
Tomb Found At Richard III Burial Site To Be Opened LiveScience | By Megan GannonPosted: 07/23/2013 2:53 pm EDT Just great, another wealthy religious group spends millions on still another…
Ah, southern Germany in May. When I heard a buddy was going back to his parents’ homeland for an aunt’s 80th birthday, I told him of the glories of the…
FPP tends to make the NDP a minor player when competing against the Liberals for the centrist vote. Why? When both parties compete for the entire vote, voters tend to…
It’s sort of like walking along a cliff edge blindfolded. Most of us, given the choice, would say no. There’s a worst case scenario and a best case scenario and…
