August 10: A day to remember.
Certainly, I shall never forget it. And it often comes to mind as I write these blogs. It was a day in October of 1962. I was a teacher at…
Certainly, I shall never forget it. And it often comes to mind as I write these blogs. It was a day in October of 1962. I was a teacher at…
Canada’s telecom giants are continuing to over-promise and under-deliver when it comes to speed and connectivity. Isn’t it time we started penalizing ISPs who flout the rules? Article by Prof.…
Seventy years ago, on August 6, 1945, the United States unleashed the most massive terror attack in history when it dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. At least 75,000…
Nigel Wright steps into the witness box to re-open the Duffy trial on Wednesday. It’s hard to see that there’s much middle ground available to Wright. He will either exonerate…
Construction of a private power project on the Ashlu River (Photo: Range Life) A flash of anger came over me when Ian Jessup of CFAX 1070, Victoria, asked me to…
A fine little compendium of the abuses and excesses of the Prince of Darkness from our friends at the Left Coast Tyee. You might want to add this to your…
Major religion’s total followers in the world are: Christian: 2.6 billion (with b.)Muslims: 1.6 billionJews : 13 million only. 6 million Jews live in Israel and rest of the 7…
Think of them as the rectal thermometer of our oceans and lakes – algae blooms and blankets of seaweed. When they start showing up, en masse, on your coast and…
If Canada adopts the TPP, it will criminalize your Internet use and force your Internet provider and search engines to censor online content, things the government had consistently rejected throughout…
Here is another shocker for Vancouver Island and Gulf Island communities. It appears that LNG Tankers may soon be plying our waters as the Malahat Nation and Steelhead LNG forge…
An editorial in today’s New York Times illustrates how besotted American thinking remains on international affairs. Time to unpack the Times’ fuzzy logic. The editorial concerns international rivalry over Arctic…
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OK, that headline is bit out there but stay with me. Poop transplants are proving super effective against a bunch of problems some people have with their bodies. Now there’s…
1. Contempt for Canada 2. Cheated in the 2006 Election3. Turned Canada’s Surplus into Debt 4. Wants US-style bank deregulation 5. Opposes universal health care 6. Harper shut down Parliament.…
1. Contempt for Canada 2. Cheated in the 2006 Election3. Turned Canada's Surplus into Debt 4. Wants US-style bank deregulation 5. Opposes universal health care 6. Harper shut down Parliament.…
1. Contempt for Canada 2. Cheated in the 2006 Election3. Turned Canada’s Surplus into Debt 4. Wants US-style bank deregulation 5. Opposes universal health care 6. Harper shut down Parliament.…
A short addendum, filed under who knows: Time-travelling pirates Über-chimp astrologers Ham-fisted hosers Over-emotional AIs Plus this subset of writers: Whisky-swilling scribblers Wine-soaked hacks Beery autobiographers Alltop is a algorithm…
Your news links for today: Canada’s Quiet History of Weakening Communications Encryption – Telecom Transparency Project ‘Netflix tax’ inevitable as more services go online, experts say – Calgary Herald Leaked…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Crawford Kilian reviews Tom Mulcair’s Strength of Conviction and describes what we can expect out of an NDP federal government as a result:…
I was going to write about Linda McQuaig’s honest assertion that much of the tarsands’ oil will have to be left in the ground if Canada is to meet its…