Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, February 27, 2015
Your news links for today: FCC votes for net neutrality, a ban on paid fast lanes, and Title II – Ars Technica Dear FCC: Thanks for Listening to Team Internet!…
February 2015
More Debates, Not Fewer Debaters
The unethical fools at the Broadcast Consortium will probably gladly keep Elizabeth May away from the debates this year too. Especially amusing is the Conservative spokes-tool saying more participants would…
An Early Election?
http://www.evidentia.net/ Two days ago, rumours were circulating that we were in for an early election. So far, nothing has materialized. But, having mastered the art of fear and smear politics…
Tory Plett’s bullying of trans people continues in Ottawa
Wednesday was Pink Shirt Day in Canada, a day to stand up against bullying. But in Ottawa, where Tories act like bullies most of the time, attacking anyone who can’t…
Who’s Watching The Spies?
This from the folks at leadnow.ca: Recommend this Post
My cartoonish take on yesterday’s social media trends
Personally, I think the llamas leave the dress behind in the dirt.
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Frank Graves writes that we’re seeing the end of progress for all but the wealthiest few – and that we all stand to…
Cause and effect
Cause. Cause. Cause. Effect. I’ve written a couple books that deal with this subject, here and here, so forgive me for asking (what should be by now) a wholly rhetorical…
Meet the Don Quixote of Chatham-Kent—Essex.
This guy could only be from South-Western Ontario. Richard (Rick) Nicholls is the Progressive Conservative MPP for Chatham-Kent—Essex in the Ontario Legislature. He also claims to be an evolution denier…
Bill C-51: Is Stephen Harper Feeling the Heat?
You could tell by just looking at him that Stephen Harper hated the very idea. He was angry he was vicious. He went after the opposition like a rabid hyena…
Language Problems #nlpoli
“Increasing taxes is not about solving the deficit, it’s about maintaining our programs and services that we have.” That’s what Labrador and aboriginal affairs minister Keith Russell told the handful…
Stephen Harper and his New Separatist Friends
Yesterday I wondered whether Stephen Harper was helping to bring the Bloc Quebecois back from the land of the dead.By fanning the flames of xenophobia and bigotry, and replacing the…
Newsweek’s Obituary for the Athabasca Tar Sands
Is it time for the Barons of Bitumen to wave the white flag? That seems to be the case according to an article from the latest NewsWeek, “Keystone and the…
The Grand Illusion
Photo by Menendj In the years since 9/11, American police alone have killed at least twice as many Americans as died in that single large event, the annual toll of…
You May Find This Hard to Believe
Just in from NOAA, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. January, 2015 was the second hottest January on record. I know, I know – the Polar Vortex, all those…
Wearing a hijab bars litigant from court
In truly bizarre story (see link below) a Quebec judge refused to hear a woman wearing a hijab. The judge cited Article 13 of the regulations of the Court of…
What Stands Between Stephen Harper and a Spring Election Call?
Yesterday, apparently, some Ottawa journos were speculating about Stephen Harper dropping the writ today for a spring election. I was told last week that Harper has already brought in a…
Harper Gives Exclusive Interview To CostCo Magazine, Gets Bumped From Cover By Sarah Style
What’s more hilarious? @pmharper giving an “exclusive” interview to @costcocanada, or that it’s not the cover story? pic.twitter.com/79nYDyKWpv— Elias Makos (@eliasmakos) February 26, 2015 And they say Justin lacks gravitas.