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…
August 2015
Geist: Isn’t it time we gave Canada’s Net Neutrality protections some teeth?
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.…
Too long to live in fear
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…
The Sparks Will Fly on Wednesday
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…
Rafe: Media let Liberals get away with murder on IPPs, now LNG
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…
The Tyee Outs "Harper the Serial Abuser"
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…
Religion and politics
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…
And So It Goes
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…
CBC: Leaked Trans-Pacific Partnership draft would force Canada to rework copyright, critics say
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…
Malahat Nation intends to announce an LNG project.
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…
The New York Times’ Fuzzy Logic
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…
Who is winning the campaign so far?
Take Our Poll
Other People’s Poop May Make You Happy
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…
25 GOOD Reasons Why Steve Harper Is BAD For Canada
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.…
25 GOOD Reasons Why Steve Harper Is BAD For Canada
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.…
25 GOOD Reasons Why Steve Harper Is BAD For Canada
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.…
The nature of novelists
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 Daily Digital Digest for Monday, August 10, 2015
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…
Monday Morning Links
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:…
Speaking The Truth: A Crime In Harperland
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…