Your news links for today: The Battle Over Tariff 8, Part 2: The Recording Industry’s Surprising Opposition to Songwriter, Composer and Music Publisher Streaming Royalties – Michael Geist THE GARGOYLE…
It’s relatively common knowledge that employer-run pensions have been scaled back over the past few decades. I’ve decided to dig some data on pensions for this post to see just…
Why can’t someone be clueful, only clueless? Hapful, not simply hapless? Aweless instead of just awful? Ruthful not merely ruthless? Doleless, not just doleful? Gormful, not just gormless? We can…
I drew this vector cat shape in response to formalising the plump long haired cat drawing which shows up sometimes, and simply experimenting with iDraw app on the iPad. I…
Tobe Hooper who made The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 40 years ago is getting a lifetime achievement award today at Montreal’s FanTasia Film Festival. The festival, started 18 years ago and…
Unfortunately not every country has signed the Ottawa Treaty banning anti-personal land mines. Recently the largest producer of armaments, the USA, has opted to stop production of landmines. The army…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, July 30, 2014: Exonerated Innocent Man Describes 21 Year Connecticut Prison Nightmare Footage shows Iowa sheriff’s deputies…
They say that a stiff prick has no conscience, but a stiff prick that laughs too is phenomenal*, especially when it laughs all the way to the bank after fucking…
If we can have a ‘do not call’ list, why can we not have a do-not-mail list? It does no good to put a ‘no-junk mail’ admonition on your mailbox…
http://www.reuters.com/ Vladimir Putin’s ascension to the Russian presidency for a third term was greeted with widespread public protest and
There are some self-identified Liberals (and New Democrats) who proclaim their support for Israel in its current butchery in Gaza and they tend to do it in the name of…
A new study from the Canadian Civil Liberties Association says Canada’s provincial and territorial jails are holding thousands of legally innocent people. The post Canada’s overcrowded jails full of legally…
“Being a Jew isn’t like being Black or being gay or being a woman, or even Israeli where many Jews come from. Being a Jew is a choice, like being…
It looks like Greater Sudbury’s Auditor-General is seriously considering throwing his hat in the ring to become the City’s next Mayor. Clearly, if Brian Bigger does ultimately decide to run…
Target Canada’s new price-matching promises are, like the shelves of their stores, empty. That is all.
Government is like a lot of things in life: it’s about finding solutions to problems. Okay. If that upsets your cynical sensibilities, think about it as about finding answers to…
Here’s one thing that I don’t blame former Alberta Premier Alison Redford for doing — taking her daughter with her on many of her government flights was the right thing…
De Plane! De Plane! Tattoo calls out from the tower to announce the arrival of the premier’s plane at Calgary International Airport. Actual members of former Premier Alison Redford’s staff…
Have you noticed that Jason Kenney has not been in the news as much lately? The Smiling Budha, Curry in Hurry, Minister of Citizen, Immigration and Multiculturalism, who is also…
