CSEC has been exploiting advertising software to spy on Canadians’ smartphones. Article by Micah Lee for The Intercept British and Canadian spy agencies accumulated sensitive data on smartphone users, including…
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell fell short of the 60 votes he hoped to get for Keystone XL Read this Jan. 26 story from The Washington Post on the…
This article on the ongoing decline in Canadian voter participation, particularly by youth in the Globe today by Michael Adams, President of the Environics Institute for Survey Research and Maryantonett…
Photo: Twitter/@pmharper Read this Jan. 22 story from Bill Curry in The Globe and Mail on Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s surprising change of tune around the importance of oil to…
Parliament is back in session, and so too Question Period. Nobody would dispute that the former is a crucial part of the way in which we govern ourselves. But the…
From Canadaland: Multiple sources tell CANADALAND that Sun News Network (SNN), the Quebecor-owned cable news channel that launched in 2011, is on the verge of closing. Couple of weird things.…
Of the Law Societies of Upper Canada and Nunavut
R. v. K.C., 2015 ONCA 39: On a Crown appeal from acquittal, the Crown must demonstrate first, an error in law and second, that the error was sufficiently significant to…
How young people can lead in the fight against Internet slow lanes. Article by Julien Balbontin for The Varsity Net neutrality is a guiding principle for Internet Service Providers (ISPs)…
Over the past few years, I’ve been fortunate to participate in discussions about climate change threats and environmental issues with people across private, public, governmental, and research sectors. Whether at…
This shocking news story came up about a year ago, but it’s back in the news because oil crashed, and Alberta tarsand hillbillies freaked out about Saudi Arabia (finally). The…
Legendary Python, John Cleese, gets down to the basics of what it takes to be a viewer of FOX (and we might add Sun) News.
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But they’re fun. Here’s CBC’s latest, which you can take with several gargantuan grains of salt.
The Tyee’s Murray Dobbins sees signs everywhere that our civilization is heading for collapse. The exceptionally successful four decades campaign to change the “ideological fabric” of society has put western…
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has criticized the bigwigs attending the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos for a lack of focus on green infrastructure investment. “We see this at the…
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of Australia. A new report claims that the ‘land down unda’ will be hit harder by climate change impacts than the rest…
This was another one of those yelly-at-the-radio days. Listen, it isn’t very often that I’m actually *ashamed* of the place that I choose to live. I love this place 98%…
Someone using a false name and false email address has tried this morning to make criminal accusations about Kathleen Wynne and Team on this web site’s comments section. I have…
Your news links for today: New security bill aimed at combating ‘lone wolf’ attacks coming this week – CBC News Harper’s anti-terror bill to criminalize the ‘promotion of terrorism’ –…
