The morning of the Paris massacre, this surfaced on the Internet: “Stephen Harper’s willingness to be tough with terrorists and dictators – in effect, punching above Canada’s foreign policy weight…
Photo by Makaristos At the end of 2014, RankandFile.ca, an online labour news publication, ran a competition for Scumbag of the Year. While we received many nominations of bad bosses…
We have to be prepared to leave most of the world’s fossil fuels in the ground. So says a new published report. Expect none of us, neither our political ‘leaders’…
1503426_10153037610974759_5970440243513203976_n.png Government needs to take action to prevent foreign Big Media companies from sending misleading notices that threaten $150,000 lawsuits and disconnection from the Internet January 8, 2015 – Less…
Another study confirms that the survival of mankind, indeed most life forms on Earth, demands that we leave at least two thirds of our known fossil fuel reserves in the…
Originally appears in “The War Between Writers and Reviewers,” by Thomas Flemming in the NYT, 1985. Alltop loves a good bad review.
It didn’t take long for Big Media conglomerates to seize the first opportunity to extort Canadians under the new notice-and-notice provisions. In a blog posted by Michael Geist this morning,…
If revenge is indeed a dish that’s best served cold, the President of Cool just served up a four-star pièce de résistance for Stephen Harper. Tuesday’s announcement of Obama’s planned…
This fills in the blanks on many levels. Some folks will be tad upset with the ‘Reality Check’ but it is time to defrag and tune up grass roots response…
Meady v. Greyhound Canada Transportation Corp., 2015 ONCA 6: In considering the admissibility of the expert evidence, the trial judge correctly identified the test in R. v. Mohan, 2 S.C.R.…
I haven’t talked a lot about Ontario Politics much of late, but for my first post of the New Year, a few things have caught my eye I wished to…
Have you ever read a biography and wished that the author was your friend, a guy you could call up and shoot the breeze with, or hang out with at…
Your news links for today: Apple hiking Canadian App Store prices– Metro News Shaw raises prices to third party ISP’s – Almost double the price for slower speed– DSL Reports…
I haven’t had much to say since the shootings on Parliament Hill back in October, but today’s news that Jian Ghomeshi is facing three new charges, all from three new…
It is very nice that you are helping out Mr. Vickers. He is a real hero. However, the person who should really be ambassador to Ireland is me. I may…
The current low oil prices have been characterized as a high stakes game of “chicken” between OPEC countries and “non-conventional” producing countries like Canada and more recently the US. I…
Satire inspired by these headlines: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/charlie-hebdo-paris-shooting-canadian-politicians-react-1.2892340 & http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/stephen-harper-bans-chinese-media-from-arctic-trip-1.2744310
Satire inspired by these headlines: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/charlie-hebdo-paris-shooting-canadian-politicians-react-1.2892340 & http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/stephen-harper-bans-chinese-media-from-arctic-...
I’m taking a break on posting to this blog. I’ve received a few queries about this so for any interested in more detail link here. You can also get to…
Some media outlets have decided to reproduce the cartoons that got Charlie Hebdo in Dutch with the Islamists. Some have suggested that they were just playful satire , although this…
