There’s been some talk lately about why Vancouver Island isn’t a Canadian province in its own right. The argument is that, if you look at the maritime provinces, we’re bigger,…
A confrontation is brewing on the north island where remote Raft Cove Provincial Park is bracing for a flash mob of 2,000 hippies planning to stay there for up to…
Thousands were set to gather at Raft Cove Provincial Park due to thousands of dirty fucking hippies expected to visit. Only about 70 people have shown up and already the…
Earlier this month I posted an interview with Neil Turok, head of The Perimeter Institute and the deliverer of this year’s Massey Lectures. As I indicated in my original post,…
According to Steve Pavlina there are 10 major weaknesses. All of them are interesting. I especially liked #4: “4. Infinite loops: Once a pattern of thought and behavior has become…
Earlier this year, I re-watched the original “Star Trek” series end-to-end on Netflix – a thoroughly entertaining experience – then decided to watch “Star Trek: The Next Generation” for the…
Nick Falvo offers one response to Tom Mulcair’s latest comments on taxes. And I certainly won’t argue with the position that it’s utterly bizarre to see the leader of a…
I won’t spend much time on the TandT news today because most of it reads like a tabloid, a really, really boring and trivial tabloid. It doesn’t even have the…
Across south and east Asia, water is power. If you want to know why China invaded and seized Tibet, it was the water. New academic research shows that India, Nepal,…
King Harper was visiting the Irving Oil refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick. Only cameras were allowed. When a Globe and Mail reporter asked a question, Harper staff removed all…
Think we’re on the cusp of a “clean energy revolution” that will sweep the world and rescue our grandkids from environmental catastrophe? Think again. A report from the Our World…
Continuing on from yesterday’s post, in which you are dying to know what I’ve been up to and what crap I have growing in my yard, I present 2) Renos:…
What are they saying to the growing inequalities of the 21st century? “I want Dr. King to know that I didn’t come to Selma to make his job difficult. I…
Racism is well and alive in Europe and North America. Oprah Winfrey was denied service at a store in Zurich, Switzerland. She said she had similar experiences in America. Earlier…
Roku has added an app for PBS! This means we watch music clips from Austin City Limits, and in the winter we’ll binge on American Experience history documentaries and American…
The court transcript, here. Oh, and he was on something last night on the Danforth, here. I’m sure it’s all a great big coincidence.
Time-lapse photos from the International Space Station shows ice and snow, expanding and receding, with the seasons, a lot like the way lungs expand and contract when someone breathes. Visit…
A surprising assortment of political approaches in a broad range of traditions depend in one way or another on narratives of catastrophe.
The CRTC puts on SUN block for Canadians. The Cons will find some way to make sure we get their brand of melanoma.
You have seen the full page advertisements in the newspapers. You have wondered just who the big telecoms—Bell, Rogers and Telus—are trying to reach. And you also wonder why they…
