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Slumbering cats.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 It has been said that the measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members. So when I recently testified the House of…
The U.S. NSA is deliberately infecting thousands of computers around the world with invasive spying malware that’s impossible to remove. It seems not a week goes by without a new…
….you spend a Sunday afternoon looking out to see your car being buried in a white-out of blowing snow with a powerful tail wind. And next morning, there’s no newspaper…
OPEN LETTER to Senator Don Plett, I understand from this Hill Times article that you are planning to introduce amendments in the Canadian Senate to this democratically-passed private member’s bill,…
Ronald Zajac, right here. Read.
John Klein: SaskPower appears to be brushing off my push for progress with a form response letter they customize each time. Watch for the stand-out “Meantime” in each response, spanning…
Attachment Size RCMP – Criminal Threats to Canadian Petroleum Industry.pdf 1.77 MB An internal Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) document (provided in full below) warns “violent anti-petroleum extremists” driven by…
Bill Nye, an eloquent advocate of critical thinking and rational discussion, urges newscasters to use the words ‘climate change’ now and again. There is nothing at stake except the reduction…
An internal Royal Canadian Mounted Policy (RCMP) document (provided in full below) warns “violent anti-petroleum extremists” driven by an “anti-petroleum ideology” pose a criminal threat to Canada’s oil and gas…
R. v. Magno, 2015 ONCA 111 is an interesting case for manslaughter sentencing. The offender received a global sentence of 12 years, less deadtime, in circumstances where a far higher…
The LEED green building rating systems have their fair share of criticism. But what might a better rating system look like? Architect and Founder of the New Urban Guild Steve…
Here is a guest post from Damir Wallener responding to Don Maroc’s earlier Column regarding Damir’s proposal to include hi-tech when looking at econmic development for the Cowichan Valley. Damir…
Defining complex social phenomena is always a convoluted problem. Of course in the ‘post-modern’ era, where language games and linguistic subtitles are the life-blood of philosophy, definitions themselves become problematical.…
Your news links for today: NSA Group Has Been Embedding Spyware In Hard Drive Firmware – DSL Reports Web privacy is the newest luxury item in era of pervasive tracking…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Thousands of UK court cases could soon be heard via Skype Ontario’s e-cig law unconstitutional: prof Same-sex couple’s custody…
Think again. The RCMP has labelled the “anti-petroleum” movement as a growing and violent threat to Canada’s security, raising fears among environmentalists that they face increased surveillance, and possibly worse,…
I start my day with coffee and writing a post about good news. Today those two things merged rather well: it turns out drinking coffee regularly can lower the chances…
