Leading U.S. defence contractor, Raytheon, has developed RIOT, the Rapid Overlay Information Technology software programme that can gather, sort, digest and analyze all your social media telltales. It can even…
TweetThe staff overhaul in Premier Alison Redford‘s Communications Office has resulted in two new hires. One was already working in Alberta’s Legislature and the other comes direct from Ontario’s provincial…
Brian Fisher I am pleased to introduce Brian Fisher to Cowichan Conversations readers. It is hoped that this will be just the first offering and that Brian will send us…
I wanted to begin today’s entry with a picture I recently took, while helping a friend move. I did not take this picture to show how educational literature usually ends…
Check out this trailer for An Abominable Crime, a documentary about the rampant (and often ignored) homophobia problem in Jamaica. The filmmakers are currently fundraising to help get this film…
Bonjour mes chers lecteurs, greetings dear readers. This blog posting comes to you from a Tim Hortons in the north end of Quebec City, one with wifi access. I ordered…
The most interesting thing I find out about debates concerning electoral reform is that they are often premised on the assumption that the goal of democracy is to eliminate marginalization.…
What’s notable about Conservative Sen. Patrick Brazeau is that he isn’t all that notable. In fact, he’s just one of a long line of senators who have been associated with…
Check out this trailer for An Abominable Crime, a documentary about the rampant (and often ignored) homophobia problem in Jamaica. The filmmakers are currently fundraising to help get this film…
“In the flash of this moment / you’re the best of what we are / don’t let them stop you now / Nicaragua.” – Bruce Cockburn (1984) MANAGUA – Nearly…
As suprising (not) as Joe Ratzinger’s resignation today as Pope Benedict XVI may have been, he did the right thing. The Catholic Church is so dysfunctional that it’ll take years…
Thank you, B.C. government, for declaring a new stat holiday. We needed one in February and my family are fortunate enough that we all have a day off work and…
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Let’s face it folks politics and governance in BC has become soiled by the top down control mechanisms and practices of all of BC’s political parties.…
Early reports suggest she lives in Ontario. Exclusive footage at eleven!
Tories, Liberals unite in bid to salvage Senate’s tarnished reputation OTTAWA – Conservative and Liberal leaders in the much-maligned Senate are joining forces to salvage the upper chamber’s tarnished reputation.…
Back in December, I wrote a piece beginning to think through how what we feel in our bodies — the feeling in our gut, our affect, our emotion — is…
As Kathleen Wynne is sworn in as Ontario’s first female Premier and generally awesome individual: Meanwhile, Andrea Horwath miscalculated and inexplicably missed a big moment: Busy day in #tbay –…
Excited to see the new cabinet sworn in today. In particular, I’m very happy to see Charles Sousa and Yasir Naqvi as Finance and Labour Minister respectively. I started this…
What if the way forward isn’t? What if it’s time for us to turn around, to go back? James Lovelock said the future of mankind, if there is to be…
