Orange Sleaze: The NDP’s Fact-Free Smears of the Green Party
There used to be a time when New Democrats wouldn’t lower themselves to uttering the name of the “Green Party” or its leader, out of fear that acknowledging its existence…
2015
Techdirt: MEP Cavada doesn’t want you to share your photos for free
The so called freedom of panorama was included in MEP Julia Reda’s copyright report, but a troubling amendment voted it out. Speak out now to push back against those powerful…
Pasta Books Reviewed, Part 1
While I can’t say my collection of pasta making and recipe books is as exhaustive as it could be had I an unlimited amount to spend and equivalent time to…
Final thoughts
Filed under: art Tagged: despair, destiny, dialog balloons, Doom, madeWithPaper, space, thought clouds
Aboriginal people and Canadian Criminal law
The Criminal Code and the Youth Criminal Justice Act have parts that consider the unique legal status of Aboriginal people in Canada. So Section 718.2 of the Criminal Code says:…
July 3: A sad day at the beach…
Yesterday, I went down to the Northumberland Strait shore and its wonderful beaches. I took my five-year old grandaughter out at low tide for a walk through the shallows and…
Tell the CRTC in Your Own Words Why We Need Faster, Cheaper Internet
Bad news: Big Telecom giants are throwing every lawyer and lobbyist they have at a rapidly-approaching government hearing so they can block you from faster, cheaper Internet services. If they…
Is Harper Government a bigger threat to your security than terrorists?
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To the Ends of the Earth: Filmmaker One-on-One
David Lavallee talks with fellow filmmaker and Common Sense Canadian publisher Damien Gillis about the former’s project, “To the Ends of the Earth”, which connects the dots between society’s hunger…
When will the Liberals learn?
We saw the Conservatives define Stephane Dion as not a leader. The Liberals then elected Michael Ignatieff as leader and I watched in awe as once again they allowed the…
Rogers is officially approved to take control of Mobilicity
This will mean fewer choices for Canadian cell phone subscribers when wireless prices are already increasing at 3 times the rate of inflation. Speak out now at http://openmedia.ca/gatekeepers Article by…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jerry Dias sees the forced passage of an unamended Bill C-377 as a definitive answer in the negative to the question of whether…
Quick thoughts on Vancouver’s transit referendum “No”
Here are a few quick, initial thoughts on Vancouver’s transit referendum, where new transit funding paid for by a regional sales tax was rejected roughly 60% to 40%. You might…
Quick thoughts on Vancouver’s transit referendum “No”
Here are a few quick, initial thoughts on Vancouver’s transit referendum, where new transit funding paid for by a regional sales tax was rejected roughly 60% to 40%. You might…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, July 3, 2015
Your news links for today: WikiLeaks drops new set of secret TISA docs: Yep, no one agrees – Ars Technica Tech Giants Oppose Broad Anti-Piracy Injunctions – TorrentFreak Chicago to…
On closed-door decisions
Memo to Don Lenihan: It’s well and good to point to past backroom policy debacles such as utterly unwanted Crown corporation giveaways as examples of a complete lack of public…
The delicate dears at HuffPo are offended
By this: HuffPo doesn’t like what my former boss did. Poor babies. The above image, from February 1996, is of one Jean Chretien throttling a protester, natch, who had gotten…
The Myth of STEM Degrees: STEM as the Canary in the Coal Mine
What follow is a guest blog post from Glenn Burley: – If Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and professional fields like medicine, law, and dentistry are the so-called golden…
Shaming Those Who Deserve It – The Case Of Kim McArthur
Every picture of that I have seen of her shows Kim McArthur sporting the same smile as above, conveying the image of someone without a care in the world, a…