The Mega-spies on Megaupload
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2015
Stop Spying On Us
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It is time to confront Canada’s staple trap
Canadian postcard, 1907 Forbidden to text while driving, you can waste your time checking the fluctuating price of gas at every gas station you see and how at each station…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, January 29, 2015
Your news links for today: CRTC supports Net Neutrality, bans Bell and Videotron from exempting streaming services from bandwidth caps – Mobile Syrup “No Fast Lanes and Slow Lanes”: CRTC…
New column day
Here, on how Saskatchewan residents should be able to count on secure housing, rather than being shunted into stopgap social housing by the Wall government. For further reading…– The provincial…
Canada is Trading Away its Environmental Rights
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. In 1997, Canada restricted import and transfer of the gasoline additive MMT because it was a suspected neurotoxin that had already been…
In big win for Internet users, CRTC finds Bell Mobility unlawfully made competing mobile video apps and services more expensive
10418983_10152770578749759_4936705458735744107_n_0.png Following case taken by concerned Canadians and public interest groups, CRTC says mobile providers cannot markup independent services like Netflix to give their own content an unfair advantage January…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jim Stanford reminds us that any drama as to whether Canada’s budget will be balanced this year is entirely of the Cons’…
Don’t Play Tories’ Game on “Risk” of Deficit
Acres of newsprint have been devoted in recent weeks to the possibility that lower oil prices might push the federal budget back into a deficit position. As I argue in…
“There is No Them, Only Us”: Perspectives Collide at University of Victoria Climate and Divestment Forum
Pressure is mounting on the University of Victoria Foundation’s board to rid itself of investments in fossil fuel related stocks, but, for now, the board is continuing to gather information…
An Unmitigated Disaster
http://keef.tv/blog/ Jim Stanford writes that the sound a fury about a balanced budget is about politics, not economics: Running spending cuts since 2011 now total more than $14-billion a year.
Canadians are waiting for the Hair.
The lights are on late in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). The price of crude oil is less than $50 a barrel. The Canadian dollar is trading just under 80…
I got this gold medal for my hair.
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A proposal for Newfoundland
The province still seems set on reducing the number of MHAs. I therefore present to the province my own proposal to help them achieve this without resulting in nearly as…
Ontario elder care: fewer staff, more privatization, more private payment
A new report sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Health Information and completed by Statistics Canada indicates that staffing at Ontario long-term care facilities (LTC) falls short of other provinces.…
Levant Lawsuit Lurches Towards Conclusion
Buckets has emerged from cryo-sleep to give us this post. After no less than two computer forensics companies declared that Richard Warman’s computer had not even been turned on the…
The Day Stephen Harper Went Off the Deep End
I always knew he was dangerous. And that madness ran in his family.I knew the first Harper to arrive in Canada had to removed from office for "violent and oppressive…
Nalcor: the power of hubris #nlpoli
On the last electricity bill to arrive Chez Scribbler, the price per kilowatt hour was a little over 11 cents, all in. On Wednesday, Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro applied to…
My brief survey of Mexican food
Now that I’ve lived in Mexico for over two years, here’s some culinary discoveries I’ve made. Coctel de camarones (shrimp cocktails): Shrimp and avocado in a spicy red sauce. I’ve…