Paul McCartney Rocks Regina
*Goosebumps* I got goosebumps up the back of my head when he played Hey Jude. Crash. A music legend played in the Queen City for the first time, and seemed…
August 2013
Con Stories: Another PMO Operative Jumps Ship
They don't dare admit it of course, but there's one thing everyone who has worked in the PMO would say if they could be sure of being accepted into the…
Voting systems in a nutshell
There are two different ways voters can be represented in a democracy: by person and by party. This is the main reason there are many different voting systems. Definition: Seat/Riding:…
Toronto needs a mayor: a short review about a video
The scene: a Starbucks, at Yonge and St. Clair. The players: Kevin Donovan, the lead investigative reporter at the Toronto Star, and James Lockyer, the founding director of the Association…
Alberta Forces Tar Sands Comedy Pitch Video for Indiegogo Off YouTube
Travel Alberta is not pleased with Andy Cobb and Mike Damanskis, two L.A.-based comedians raising funds to travel to the province’s tar sands, the world’s largest industrial project. Today, Travel…
Hippies Threaten Our Coastal Wilderness-Forestry & Mining Corporations Outraged!
br />Proud to have been a longhair when it mattered!
Civil disobedience as law enforcement
Historian and author Jeremy Brecher argues that activists who engage in acts of civil disobedience and risk arrest are upholding the law, not violating it. The post Civil disobedience as…
Adrift
I have yet to see anything that so sublimely and elegantly shows how mankind and nature can cohabit this planet, yet we continue to lay a massive pounding on the…
Distort Things Much?
Over at his blog (where he has conveniently turned off comments), we find Walt Heyer madly scribing away, and getting it horribly wrong. He refers to three cases of what…
Democracy Now interview: Ladar Levison talks about decision to close Lavabit rather than comply with U.S. government
In a follow-up to the previous entry I’m posting a Democracy Now interview with Lavabit owner and operator Ladar Levison. Levison made the difficult decision to shut down the encrypted…
Sorry, it’s not a ‘law of capitalism’ that you pay your employees as little as possible … IT’S A CHOICE!
By Henry Blodget,Financial Post “One of the big reasons the U.S. economy is so lousy is the American companies are hoarding cash and ‘maximizing profits’ instead of investing in their…
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These ideas = success
We are constantly amazed, but never surprised, at what the pro-Internet community can accomplish when we work together. With a couple clicks and a few keystrokes, we can share our…
Here There Be Dragons
I take it that metaphors are too subtle a concept for the fundamentalist mind: Recommend this Post
A Twitter feed for your consideration
Canadian citizen Maher Arar has lived in this country for more than 25 years. He has an undergraduate degree from McGill and a graduate degree in telecommunications, is married and…
Canada’s Green Economy needs public investment
While public banks in countries like China, the US, the UK, Germany, Denmark and Brazil are investing billions in renewable energy development, as clean tech expert Will Dubitsky explains, Canada…
My take on Line 9
Over the last year, there has been a huge amount of debate over Enbridge wanting to reverse the flow of oil in a major pipeline — “Line 9” — from…
Longtime NDP MLA Corky Evans On Todays BC NDP
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger The BC Liberals scored a surprise upset and were re-elected as the government of BC on May 14th, 2013 Since that time members, supporters and pundits…
Now the Data-Miners Are Afraid of Being Counter-Data-Mined
The Pentagon seems to have had one of those “oh shit” moments when it dawned on them that data-mining can be a double-edged sword. Apparently some out-of-the-box thinker asked what…