F-35 Falls Behind Schedule, Again
Testing can become costly and time-consuming when you’re building an aircraft before you know if it will actually work as advertised. It defeats the whole notion of schedules and target…
July 2013
They ‘Will Lie, Trick, and Deceive’: Jailed CIA Whistleblower’s Warns Edward Snowden
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger It is becoming hard to keep track of all the ‘Whistleblowers’ and the tunes that they are whistling. It is clear that many countries spy, snoop…
E.U. slashes roaming fees while Big Telecom in Canada tries to delay the implementation of the CRTC Code
Here in Canada, Big Telecom is taking Canadians to court to try to delay the end of expensive 3-year contracts until nearly 2017. Meanwhile, over in Europe, the E.U. has…
Groups demand that U.S. companies reject Canadian tar sands
by: Sierra Club Canada | Press Release: Corporate Climate Campaign led by Sierra Club and ForestEthics Gains Momentum San Francisco, CA, June 2, 2013 – Fifty-eight organizations, led by the…
Hudak PC candidate: Female voters are "less informed"…including about control over their own bodies?
That’s Wayne Wettlaufer, former PC MPP who served with Hudak and Mike Harris running to win his seat of Kitchener Centre back for the Conservatives. Wettlaufer also must think women…
The Jet Stream, The Calgary Floods, And Global Warming
One day I want to do an in-depth post on gradually changing attitudes among climate scientists re attributing individual events to global warming. This is not that post. Instead I’ve…
How to stop a media bias argument in its tracks, even with a Toronto Star journalist
The big myth in Canada is that there is a liberal media bias in Canada. That belief, honed by Canadian right-wing bloggers based on their southern counterpart’s laborious whine about…
Wow! Egypt’s President Morsi OUSTED By Military … no fooling around there ..
“Egypt’s military has ousted the country’s first democratically elected leader, replacing him with the chief justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court, calling for an early presidential election and suspending the…
Egypt – key points
– The Egyptian army has suspended the constitution and announced the formation of a technocratic interim government ahead of new presidential elections. – Religious and opposition figures have approved the…
Round-Up of Five Ontario By-Elections Due for August 1st
Ontario’s Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne has announced that five by-elections will be held on August 1st, ostensibly to replace five retiring Liberal MPPs. I’ve already covered the “big three,” that…
Let’s Keep Going, Canada | Weekly News Update from OpenMedia ca
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6207…Can Tim Hudak Go Oh Fer 5?
Thursday August 1st is when there will be 5 by elections in Ontario. If form was to hold the official opposition, Tim Hudak’s Progressive Conservatives, should take all the seats.…
Big Telecom is actually taking you to court
Last night as I was wrapping up my day, I took one last glance at my email and I couldn’t believe my eyes. It was our public interest lawyer notifying…
Brave New World has arrived
In 70 plus years of the communist eastern bloc, elites exercised tight control of communications. Pravda and Izvestia were mouthpieces of USSR state agencies and censorship was pervasive, including control…
Military coup in Egypt: Morsi is out.
It is sad. Egyptians should have given democracy a chance.
But smoking crack out on Dixon Road? That’s something we support, dude!
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Goodbye, Robin
My dear friend, Watawa Life blogger Robin Kelsey, died on July 2, 2013 at the age of 64. Robin was a photographer, a writer, a biker, an introvert, a lover…
Egyptian Government Falls to Coup
The New York Times reports that Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi has been ousted by the country’s military. Egypt’s military moved forcefully to seize power from President Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday,…