As the Ontario PC civil war over Tim Hudak’s continued leadership rages on, here is what PC Education Critic (and many say potential future leadership candidate Lisa MacLeod) had to…
Hooray! Sun News Network (SNN), aka Scum “News” lost their hypocritical bid to force all Canadian cable TV viewers to pay for their shitty channel regardless of whether we want…
Hello! Here is Arielle with your Internet Insider on online privacy as an increasingly international issue. We have recently joined a global coalition of over 100 organizations led by the…
Hey Big Telecom, what was that again about *needing* to raise cell phone plan prices under the new CRTC rules? Article by Ian Hardy for MobileSyrup.com: As part of the…
“Whenever allegations such as these are brought to our attention by way of a complaint, an internal investigation is launched. Community trust is important to us and we will continue…
A new report surveying the cost of a residential phone line, cell phone service, and high-speed Internet in Northern Canada was released last week. Its findings come as no surprise…
In 2009, Delta South voters decided that one term MLA Wally Oppal was not the person they wanted to represent them in the Legislature. That decision made him eligible for…
A timely warning about “locking in” to novel technologies such as the over budget, overdue and under-performing F-35 from Brookings Institution senior fellow Peter Singer. His advice – learn from…
John Baird – doing the right thing Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has done a commendable job of defending gay rights everywhere from Uganda to Russia. Not everyone agrees, however,…
In recent corporate public relations attempts, BP has tried to shift the public’s focus from its corporate wrongdoing and outright criminal behavior to criticizing BP’s victims and their legal representatives.…
NOTE: This was one of the most popular posts at the old LFR. A lot has changed after September 2011 when it was written but unfortunately to much idiocy has…
Imagine if you will ladies and gentlemen a country where a law was recently passed making it illegal for Christians to proselytize. More than that, the law made it illegal…
Andre Marin, Ontario’s Ombudsman, found this out after announcing he was planning to investigate the province’s direction to police on de-escalating conflict situations in light of the police killing of…
Following last week’s troubling news about potash, the Saskatchewan government released its first-quarter financial report today. The headline seems to be “Oil Keeps Budget in Black”, with a forecast increase…
“We know that the human brain is a powerful organ, but many of us aren’t aware of how much the mind is truly capable of — and much more powerful…
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives kicked off the month of August with one of their favorite activities – attacking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA.) Last Thursday, in one…
I’ll be moving to a new server in the next week or so. That means there may be a downtime of several days until I get everything fixed and running…
Here is one for the fun. Obama-nomics. by Michael Ramirez
Look, I know lots of folks will be positively giddy that Sun News Network, along with some other applicants, didn’t get “mandatory carriage.” Some will be celebrating its imminent demise.…
So there is a life after death after all and one can remain active politically even after his/her death. The soul is still hovering around. Only in U.S. eh!!! graphit/Shutterstock…
