5651…If You Liked Bill 101…
…you are going to love Bill 14. Widely reported, these would be laws that are purportedly in favour of the french language in Quebec but are in fact laws that…
2013
The ghost of a Hungabutt
Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: Monster
A Commitment to Secrecy #nlpoli
The justice department is the lead department enforcing the provincial access to public information law. As such, it’s a pretty serious indictment of the government’s commitment to public access when…
Harper Government must heed environment commissioner’s warnings: David Suzuki
By Dr. David Suzuki | Published by Troy Media on Feb. 13, 2013: When the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded in 2010, killing 11 people and spewing massive amounts of…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, February 19, 2013: Hackers take over Burger King’s Twitter account, announce ‘sale’ to McDonald’s Richard Susskind has…
#skndpldr Candidate Rankings – February 19
While there’s been plenty of news in Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership campaign over the past week, there’s hasn’t been much evidence to suggest the campaign’s shape has changed to any great…
Unit 61398 – China’s Computer Commandos
It’s possibly the most successful unit in China’s Peoples Liberation Army. Unit 61398 is believed to have hacked hundreds of terabytes of data from targets in Canada, the U.S. and…
Short Fiction: Jesussic Park
Jesus was visiting a lost valley that was reputed to hold a few holy men who separated themselves from the rest of the world so they could better understand the…
Premier Wynne can push for national referendum on future of the Senate
By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 18, 2013: In, 2004, Stephen Harper described Canada’s Senate as a “dumping ground for the favoured cronies of the Prime Minister.” He…
Perhaps He Should Try Thinking Before Speaking?
Last week I wrote a post on two inane ideas uttered by young Tim Hudak, the hapless leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party. He proposed tying post-secondary funding to rates…
The Triumph of The American Matrix
The matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games. … Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.…
CAPP And The Government
Nancy on the coordination of polling research between the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and Environment Canada: Why is this interesting? Government public opinion research must be non-partisan. But here,…
If You Wait Until You’re Dead Certain About Grave Danger, You’re Already Dead
It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust, and here’s a great presentation by Rear Admiral David Titley from the U.S. Navy on why he changed from being a climate skeptic to…
Who knows the mind of a squid? #nlpoli
Why do they do it? People keep asking why the provincial Conservatives spend so much time and tons of public money goosing the VOCM question of the day in the…
To the Last Drop: Canada’s Dirty Oil Sands
must watch.
B.C. Oil and Gas Commission Lacks ‘transparency’ on Fracking Violations
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger You know we really do live in Lotus land, or is it Bananaland? We have a Premier so out of control she can’t even manage her caucus,…
Nicaragua Day 8 – Fear of flying
MANAGUA – Outside the Managua airport we were met by a representative from the Best Western who asked about our flight. The Best Western Mercedes is located across the street…
Falling into a Burning Ring of Fire
The Ring of Fire. It sounds like something out of a Tolkien novel. Welcome to Mordor Ontario, an area of 5,120 square kilometres in the James Bay watershed chock full…
‘Quebec education summit – a public relations operation’
Following a meeting with Quebec premier Pauline Marois, the ASSÉ, the militant wing of the Quebec student movement, announced February 13 that it will boycott the Summit on post-secondary education…