Telcos have been making huge profits off of paper bill fees – the practice tellingly known as “pay-to-pay”. These fees are charged disproportionately to low income people and seniors. Do…
Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth, So begins Shakespeare’s sonnet number 103 (I started rereading the sonnets recently because, well because it’s Shakespeare, damn it all, and what other…
The Times Colonist got the Labour Day weekend off to an early start with two op-eds this morning. Both of them concerned our prime minister, Stephen J. Harper. Mike Robinson…
We wouldn’t be able to take on all the work that we do here at OpenMedia without an amazing team of volunteers who support us in many ways. Today we’d…
I am actively supporting Jonathan Hughes in his run for the position of Councillor in Toronto’s Ward 28. That support is tangible. I’ve volunteered to put a lot of my…
Beacher Emma Kinsella was one of around 4,000 young athletes who travelled to the North American Indigenous Games in Regina in late July. She was invited to swim for Team…
Another piece posted on The Municipal Machiavelli this week; this time a short comment about Machiavelli and Xenophon, the ancient Greek writer who Niccolo referred to in The Prince and…
OK, I have about a million questions about the Thomas Lukaszuk $20,000 phone bill scandal. Or maybe about seven. First, the background. It was revealed this week that Lukaszuk, the…
Washington State has a water problem. It’s a warm water problem. A report in The Seattle Times says warmer Pacific waters off Washington are diverting salmon runs to Canada. Unusually…
Vlad Putin, it seems, has a response to the hectoring recently from the likes of Sideshow Steve Harper and John Baird and others – “meet me in the Arctic.” The…
Toronto seemed gripped in a mix of terror and disbelief yesterday. Rumours Wednesday night were a new poll would show Ford in the lead. Yesterday the poll while having Tory…
Canada has slipped out of the top 10 countries listed in the annual United Nation’s human development index — a far cry from the 1990s when it held the first…
It was a Saturday, all right, 50 years ago today when Lee and I got married. Seems hardly possible that so much time has passed, particularly since he’s the same…
Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Matt Drudge, Ann Coulter – not an ounce, not one ounce of integrity among them. In the wake of the execution of Michael Brown in Ferguson,…
Your news links for today: Paper billing fees add up to over $500M a year, study finds – CBC News New PIAC report, “How to Pay the Piper: A Primer…
…or at least is a deceptive term, according to the UK Advertising Standards Authority: The ASA understood that the phrase “clean coal” was the term given to a branch of…
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wine-spirits-to-move-more-easily-between-b-c-saskatchewan-1.2750311
Assorted content to end your week. – Ralph Surette suggests that Nova Scotia’s tax and regulatory review pay close attention to the fact that it can do more than simply…
We hear lots about California and it’s three-year-running drought that has left the State in severe water stress. Wells are running dry, emergency bottled water has to be brought in…
