Your news links for today: RCMP drone expansion comes with hefty price tag, prompts concerns of ‘mission creep’ – Regina Leader-Post Gogo Inflight Internet is intentionally issuing fake SSL certificates…
Apropos of nothing, here is my new fave, Plague Vendor, live. The words above come from a comment below the fan’s video, and they sum things up rather nicely. There…
Many will doubtlessly be reassured by Pastor Pat Robertson’s ongoing enthusiasm for biblical discipline, although they might be wondering if it is appropriate for him to darkly allude to the…
Satire inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/julian-fantino-out-as-veterans-affairs-minister-1.2889977
After two years away from the game, I was recently convinced by a friend to return to World of Warcraft again and play in the fantasy universe of WOW. At…
Your Honour, we present this exhibit! He’s clearing the decks. Could be for the Fall, sure, but I still think the Spring. Who’s with me?
By hook and by crook the Harper government has been relentless in pillaging Canada’s environment. Hazmat trafficking in bitumen, oil spills, leaky tailing ponds, air pollution, pipelines and exploding trains,…
What do you think? Have you been conditioned to accept powerlessness? Pick up the video at about 25:38
One of These Is a Fighter. Your Guess. Imagine what would happen if you showed up for your first day of work at a new job with no pants. That,…
These are not good times for Canada’s petro-prime minister. Harper’s Holy Grail, Canadian energy superpowerdom, has sprung a leak. Even The Globe & Mail, says bitumen no longer makes any…
The university students sitting around the table at the Citizens’ Academy in Ottawa have never met before, but you wouldn’t know it from all the laughter. After the facilitator starts…
Here’s Harper’s legacy, as he’s attempted to plunge our country into darkness: The group surveyed attitudes towards democracy and governance in interviews with 50,000 people in 28 countries. It found…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter from Dec 24 to January 5: Canadians upset with Romanian website that exposes court case details – The Globe…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Emma Woolley discusses how homelessness developed into a social problem in Canada in large part through public neglect. Judy Haiven is the latest…
Crawford Kilian of The Tyee poses an interesting question/suggestion: What If We Made 2015 the Year of Poking Fun at Conservatives? While there is certainly no dearth of mockery emanating…
Now magazine is irritated with Your Humble Narrator. For a while – um – now, the alt weakly has been in a state of high dudgeon, and it would be…
Iceland is the de facto home of Wikileaks and is also a country concerned with privacy issues. The country is now considering leveraging their experience and reputation of being digital-data…
It’s truly demoralizing to discover that a significant number of Canadians continue to believe in Stephen Harper. Michael Harris writes: And now we have an even bigger problem, according to…
Four of the big Canadian banks have come out with new forecasts for the Ontario economy and they all indicate the economy is improving. The fall in the price of…
Quote: “Mulcair is the only leader of a federal party who stands a fair chance of losing his job following the federal election, tentatively slated for later this year.” I’m…
