Canadians need more wireless choices
Canadians experience some of the highest prices and slowest speeds for Internet service – and these prices and speeds vary widely across the country. Canada’s telecom market is dominated by…
2013
Canada’s Environmental Activists “Threat To National Security”: Harper Government
RCMP and CSIS treat peaceful protest actions and questioning the Harper Government as ‘forms of attack’, label activists involved “national security threats”, documents reveal. By Obert Madondo | The Canadian…
Global Musical Chairs
There’s nothing like self-interest to shape one’s perspective. With the ascendancy of the emerging economies: – China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico and South Africa – those of us in the…
Another pipeline proposal
In my recent post on the Keystone XL pipeline I mentioned that until digging up the bitumen becomes unprofitable there will be an endless parade of proposals to ship the…
Has Banksy been arrested by London cops?
Rumours are circulating that British activist and street artist Banksy has been arrested. Fortunately, they seem to be false. From a suspiciously unattributed press release (update — the web link…
Breaking The Taboo on Monetizing Deficits
In a very long and fascinating speech which has been amplified by Martin Wolf in the FT, Lord Adair Turner seeks to break the taboo on discussion of the potential…
Our Climate Choice
I boarded a jet plane this past Friday and traveled 16 hours through the night to Washington, DC. I was back on a plane again on Monday morning flying the…
Jeremy Hammond: Aaron Swartz & the Criminalization of Digital Dissent
It is not the “crimes” Aaron (Swartz) may have committed that made him a target of federal prosecution, but his ideas – elaborated in his “Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto” –…
5667…Stephen Harper Understands Canada V.2
He’s doing what every other Canuck is doing this time of year. Huffington Post Canada just ran the pic and the story that our beloved Prime Minister is following a…
Frankster vs. Puffster
Here. I know the whole sad tale (believe me, I’ve heard it from both Bate and Duffy, ad infinitum), so it sort of bores me now. What I liked to…
Hey, I should’ve run for the LPC leadership, too!
I’d be second only to that guy with the great hair! FWIW: @justintrudeau now has 187,000+ followers on Twitter. @marcgarneau: 11,565, @mhallfindlay 7,456, @joycemurray 4,814 #LPCLdr — David Akin (@davidakin)…
Elephant in the room: Hudak continues to flip-flop on power plants
The literal elephant in that picture is from a PC photo op stunt done in Mississauga on September 28th, in an attempt to attack the Liberals over the power plant…
Keystone XL: Massive Civil Disobedience is Next
For many people, climate change is the sine qua non issue of the 21st Century – no matter what else we might do, if we don’t get this one right,…
Andrea Horwath Will Scream Coverup
…but not bring down the OLP government over the discovery of more gas-plant cancellation related docs, because, she claims, she’s so damn straight. Her party has also fallen into 3rd…
Not Green, For Now
I had to resign my membership in the Green Party to do it, but now I’m a Liberal Supporter. I didn’t join the Liberal Party and I won’t unless something…
Oiled Up
There’s a suspicious situation uncovered at the UofR, by CBC. IPAC, the CO(2) CCS project was audited, and there were apparent conflicts of interest in how some of the money…
Ontario cuts cataract surgeries by 10%
The North Bay Nugget reports that the government cut cataract surgeries by 10% across the province this year. This reportedly has forced the North Bay Regional Health Centre to stop…
The Social Science of Climate Change
What does social science have to do with climate change? Quite a bit, actually. Climate change denialism has given social scientists rich pickings to scrutinize, pick apart and analyze. One…
Always Wanted to Visit "The Big Easy"?
Many of us have at one time or another wanted to visit New Orleans, The Big Easy. If you still want to go, you might want to go sooner rather…