Musical interlude
Junkhouse – Shine
2014
Senate must fix Harper’s Orwellian Fair Elections Act: Petition
by: Obert Madondo | May 16, 2014 The Harper Conservatives used their majority in the House of Commons to bulldoze their dictatorship-style “Fair Elections Act” earlier this week. The bill…
Hundreds of protesters arrested in Brussels as business leaders debate ‘maintaining citizen’s trust’ | EurActiv
Hundreds of protesters arrested in Brussels as business leaders debate ‘maintaining citizen’s trust’ | EurActiv. Filed under: Capitalism, Democracy, Europe Tagged: Eurozone, TTIP
Big Telecom wanted to force your favourite websites into the slow lane. Here’s what the Internet had to say about that.
Yesterday morning U.S. FCC Chair Tom Wheeler announced that his agency voted in favor of a plan that could allow the creation of a slow lane on the Internet. This…
Climate Change is Here Now
Richard Hughes-Political as hell! Climate change is happening and has been happening for some considerable time. The Climate Deniers have gone to great lengths attempting to convince us that it…
New EKOS Poll Result Is Good For OLP
First the highlights: our polling shows the Liberals with a clear and possibly growing lead. They have opened up a seven-point lead on Tim Hudak’s Progressive Conservatives (PC) and the…
Words by Nowak: The reality of wireless bills in one simple chart
Actually, no, wireless bills are not going down. If you’re sick and tired of price-gouging, send James Moore a message at https://openmedia.ca/gatekeepers Article by Peter Nowak Further to my post…
Big Telecom’s price-gouging: uniting Canadians since 1880
With all that’s been happening around the secrecy of the TPP and the explosive situation in the U.S. around the looming Internet slow lane, your OpenMedia team thought it might…
Justin Trudeau plays the long game on abortion
The general response to Justin Trudeau’s new edict on abortion – that all new Liberal candidates must vote pro-life – has been overwhelmingly negative. Canada’s major newspapers’ editorial pages have…
The Verge: The real battle for net neutrality just began
Over 100,000 people spoke up, and lawmakers are listening. We now have a golden opportunity to enshrine the principles of the open Internet in law. Check this article out to…
Foreign Workers and Employment in New Brunswick
Here’s David W. Campbell: This is not an academic question. It happened this week. Now, I suspect there would be folks lined up to tell us everything that was wrong…
Random thoughts, from Jian to Tim to Louis C.K.
Welcome to the long weekend, everyone. Or, as those of us who toil in retail call it, the weekend. For your long weekend enjoyment (?), I have for you a…
Guest Blog from Barry Shell – Is this the most ridiculous example of Big Telecom price-gouging yet?
Here’s a guest blog from OpenMedia friend and ally Barry Shell, highlighting how Big Telecom even charges Canadians who want to suspend their service while on holiday. Is this the…
Small is the new Big in sustainable urban revolution
Vancouver urban farm mixer (Photo: www.urbanfarmers.ca) “Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will not themselves be realized.” That was American architect Daniel…
Is there such a thing as too much democracy (in Toronto)?
I’m unique. I don’t mean that in an airy-fairy, sickeningly sentimental, we’re all individuals, be yourself sort of way. I mean it specifically in the sense that I live in…
Neil DeGrasse Tyson On Climate Change, Humans, & Dinosaurs
* Fox vs. FOX: Neil deGrasse Tyson Speaks Out On Climate Change On Cosmos, Tyson Makes Climate Connections That Fox News Mocks
May 16: Worse than usual….
There are two items worth reading in section A. The first is on the front page”Harper unveils national conservation strategy”. At first, that comes as quite a shock. This, after…
Die Media Die: More Cuts At Sun News
The Dim Reapers strike again – managers being laid off across the chain, though unclear yet if it’s every managing editor or just some. Several Ontario dailies lost their MEs…