How Canadians can end mass surveillance
A version of this article by our David Christopher was originally published by The Tyee, as part of a new series about Canada’s Privacy Plan Just two short years ago,…
May 2015
Group Asks New Alberta Government to Review Oilsands Water Usage Amid Extreme Wild Fires
Conservation group Keepers of the Athabasca is asking the Alberta government to review water usage rules for oilsands companies as the province struggles with unseasonably low water levels and raging…
EU’s military strategy to deepen Mediterranean tragedies
Photo by Kim Hansen More than 800 migrants died on April 19 this year when their overcrowded boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast. The tragedy sent…
2015 campaign has been started by Stephen Harper
Harper’s main strategy to vilify the leaders of the opposition parties has begun.
Has Andre “Kid Kodak” Marin lost his mind?
The multiple instances of defamation notwithstanding – and my lawyer tells me we can, and should, sue and that we’d win – what I found most astonishing, here, is that…
Stuff Happens, week 20: red card for FIFA; love-in for NDP; McKay out
The week began with a love-in at the legislature, as Rachel Notley and her puny cabinet were sworn in on a beautiful sunny day in Edmonton. The crowd was huge…
U of T: Toronto is already segregated – on transit, services and just about everything else
But God help you if you actually say that out loud. I mean, Olivia Chow may pretend that she doesn’t know you! “David Hulchanski, a professor of housing and community…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Citizens for Public Justice provides a useful set of fact sheets on the importance of tax revenues in funding a civilized society. And…
Zuckerberg’s Internet.org is NOT the real Internet. It’s a trap
In response to pressure from our community, OpenMedia launched a new campaign called No Fake Internet, inviting people from around the world to stand with open Internet advocates in places…
Captain Cosmo Cat sends a selfie
Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, madeWithPaper, procreate, space exploration
Conspicuous By Our Absence
I’m posting this because: 1) I just know nobody else will, and 2) it’s important. There are two military exercises underway in the Arctic right now. Putin decided to stage…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Your news links for today: Cellphone customers have bargaining power thanks to CRTC contract rule – CBC Shomi to be made available to all Canadians this summer – Mobile Syrup…
New Poll Suggests Ignoring Hippies On Bill C-51
That’s my takeaway, at least. All the raging away on twitter is merely the caterwaul of elderly scenesters trying to relive that golden time when they flipped the bird at…
Spain: Madrid and Barcelona show — the greater the unity on the left, the bigger the win | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Spain: Madrid and Barcelona show — the greater the unity on the left, the bigger the win | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal. Filed under: Austerity Tagged: Eurozone Crisis,…
We Need to Hold Banks Accountable (again)
The financial sector is like a hydra and we need to get it under control. The bad news is that bankers have been able to get away with some unethical…
The Ad Wars Begin
Since I am currently preoccupied with rebuilding a small part of our deck (unskilled non-trades person that I am, the work is proceeding slowly), I shall take the easy way…
The Big Blue Propaganda Machine
Jeff Sallot offers some perspective on the Big Blue Propaganda Machine: How big is the propaganda machine? Well, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation reported last year the government employs no fewer…
Angus Reid: Strong Support For Bill C51/Strong Support for Oversight. (Liberal position vindicated in this poll)
Given the furore over the past couple of months on social media – most of it NDP activist driven – you’d think that the entire country hated Bill C51, the…
Bashing Barrie is a provincial sport.
Queen’s Park dashed Barrie’s hopes for a university campus recently and nobody in the city is happy about it. You would swear that bashing Barrie could be made a sport…
Difference Between “Discreet” and “Discrete”
The difference is significant and when confused can lead to hilarious results — “I am very discrete” suggests “I am quite alienated” as opposed to “I can be trusted with…