CBC: Why is Peter MacKay ignoring 73% of Canadians on Bill C-13?
MPs are set to return to parliament today and vote on a controversial bill that could give spies more power to access your private information. Got a problem with that?…
October 2014
CBC: You’re paying too much
Has your wallet been feeling a bit lighter in the last year? You have Big Telecom to thank for that. Article by Pete Evans for The CBC The average Canadian…
Forum polls and the Toronto Mayoralty
There has been a fair bit of skepticism voiced on social media this week about Forum polling in the Toronto mayoralty race. Forum uses interactive voice recognition (IVR) polling as…
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to Creators
This article is a part of a series on the Our Digital Future report, our crowdsourced roadmap for Free Expression that proposes fair and balanced copyright reform for the 21st…
Simushir and BC’s Energy Future
BC Must Take the Lead
More Oil Companies To Disclose Risks Of Fracking, Climate Change To Investors
Last week brought yet more evidence that investors in oil and gas companies are waking up to the risks of fracking and climate change. Two natural gas companies, Anadarko Petroleum…
Recharge your outrage
We are living in a propaganda bubble, a systematic onslaught of misinformation disseminated by the Government of Harper to influence our emotions, attitudes, and opinions for their own ideological, political…
Recharge your outrage
We are living in a propaganda bubble, a systematic onslaught of misinformation disseminated by the Government of Harper to influence our emotions, attitudes, and opinions for their own ideological, political…
Recharge your outrage
We are living in a propaganda bubble, a systematic onslaught of misinformation disseminated by the Government of Harper to influence our emotions, attitudes, and opinions for their own ideological, political…
Ship Adrift Off Haida Gwai
A Russian container ship, said to be laden with oil, is adrift in gale force winds approximately 15 kms. off Haida Gwai in the vicinity of where Harper wants to…
Toronto Municipal Election 2014: Vote Compass
The 2014 municipal election has tons at stake for a lot of areas, but none more so than Toronto. I am not saying to vote against the drug-dealing bully who…
Toronto Municipal Election 2014: Vote Compass
The 2014 municipal election has tons at stake for a lot of areas, but none more so than Toronto. I am not saying to vote against the drug-dealing bully who…
Toronto Municipal Election 2014: Vote Compass
The 2014 municipal election has tons at stake for a lot of areas, but none more so than Toronto. I am not saying to vote against the drug-dealing bully who…
Toronto Municipal Election 2014: Vote Compass
The 2014 municipal election has tons at stake for a lot of areas, but none more so than Toronto. I am not saying to vote against the drug-dealing bully who…
Saskatoon Lockout of Transit Workers Was Illegal
Saskatoon’s civic politicians are responsible for a City Manager who lost the City a month of transit service, at a price of over $1,000,000. Time for a firing, and maybe…
Forbes: Could your favourite websites disappear from the Internet?
Harsh provisions in this international trade agreement threaten to censor your Internet. Check out what OpenMedia’s Cynthia Khoo has to say, and make sure to check out our positive alternative…
One of You is Unhinged. Is It You or Is It Your Prime Minister?
How do you source your reality? Do you discern it out of the best facts available or do you divine it out of your beliefs? A sane person finds reality…
NASA Confirms A 2,500-Square-Mile Cloud Of Methane Floating Over US Southwest
When NASA researchers first saw data indicating a massive cloud of methane floating over the American Southwest, they found it so incredible that they dismissed it as an instrument error.…
The Dangers Are Only Too Apparent And Predictable
I was taking a bit of a break from blogging today when this came up, a sobering object lesson in the environmental disasters that we flirt with on the West…