Darren GergleUnderstanding and Bridging the Wikipedia Language Gap There is an extensive literature on Wikipedia, everything from collaboration to participation to embedded bias to the uses of Wikipedia data structures…
If you want to get a sense of how the New Democratic Party convention actually ran last weekend, take a few minutes and listen to Tony Adey’s interview on CBC’s…
It's such a bizarre request for money, it could only have come from the crazed minds of the increasingly desperate fanatics in the dark heart of the Con regime.Or the…
Mel Brooks on ‘Blazing Saddles’ at 40, Richard Pryor’s Genius, and Keeping His Edge at 87 – The Moviefone Blog: All the executives at Warner Bros. had seen the movie.…
The Next Portuguese Revolution | Jacobin. By Mark Bergfeld The poster for this year’s official celebrations of the Portuguese Revolution features a large question mark against a red background. It’s…
Self-described anti-establishment Alberta PC leadership candidate Thomas Lukaszuk in a jaunty self-mocking portrait with your blogger. Below: Tory heir apparent Jim Prentice in another weirdly Joe-Clark-like pose found on the…
Article by Rick Falkvinge for Torrent Freak As I described in a previous column, the copyright monopoly cannot be enforced without mass surveillance. There is no way to tell a…
Justin Trudeau: Decisive Ever since Justin Trudeau’s team came out with the announcement that anti-abortion supporters need not bother to run as candidates for the nomination of Liberal MPs in…
Ipsos tonight: Ontario Race Tightens: Hudak PCs Slip (35%, -4), Horwath NDP Gain (28%, +4) and Wynne Liberals Stall (31%, +1) among Decided Voters But Ballot Box Bonus Belongs to…
Don Maroc-Political Blogger The voting is not quite over but the decision is made. By a near unanimous agreement, after a last minute plea from a baby owl, North Cowichan…
To watch Darrell Bricker, Global CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs, strut about twitter today, you’d’ve thought Hudak’s PCPO had a strangle-hold on the Ontario provincial election. But really their vote…
Photos of Colorado’s spectacular Rocky Mountains draw tourists to the state from all over the world, but if people could see the extent to which oil and gas drilling is…
I’ve seriously tried to stay away from the fracas that has developed around RuPaul’s use of the word “Tranny” (and a couple of other terms which I think are both…
With Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks intensifying, it’s becoming clearer and clearer why we simply can’t passively rely on unelected lobbyists and bureaucrats to negotiate a fair deal when it comes…
Canadian government surveillance is expensive and out-of-control, argues our Steve Anderson in the Toronto Star. It’s time for the government to take responsibility and defend online privacy, instead of pushing…
This marks the 300th posting since 2008 on this incarnation of the BetterParks blog. I originally started this blog in 2001 on an old Telus members site, and migrated over…
Scott Walker, the Koch brothers darling, governor of Wisconsin is now tied in a neck and neck race for re-election with Mary Burke, an educated, business professional with state governmental…
DeSmogBlog has obtained hundreds of documents portraying the blurred lines between North Dakota’s government, the oil and gas industry and the private equity world. They also offer one of the…
Have you ever thought to yourself, “hey, I wish I could help shape our Digital Future”? Well today’s your lucky day! Go to https://OpenMedia.org/Crowdsource and use our drag and drop…
Thursday, May 22, 2014 The Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic – a direct result of climate change – has cost British Columbia billions in lost timber value alone – a reality…
