CSEC Back In The News
Here’s an interesting bit of the process the NSA and partners are going about tracking your online activities so they can link everything you do that isn’t encrypted and disassociated…
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ConCalls: DDM Calling For Mistrial! #RoboCon
Hapless Dean Del Mastro, the former Prime Ministerial Parliamentary Secretary is supposed to soon find out how long he’ll spend in jail away from his wife and baby child. What's…
Why Is Canada Selling LAVs to Saudi Arabia?
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…
Down Bayview
John Klein: Here’s what was happening in Toronto 30 years ago today. Originally posted on Grandparents' Journal: Jan. 22, 1985 Up at 22 degrees this a.m. & up a bit…
Fossils To Museums
I was an 8 year old awash in fossils, so I was a tad more generous than this former 9 year old PEI lad with his much more valuable fossil.…
Lang Still at CBC
Amanda Lang still hasn’t been suspended from reporting for the CBC. Meanwhile, Global did a little required housecleaning. “When people say they have no politics, it means that their politics…
Passive House in Alaska Heated By Sun
More Canadian homes need to be built like this to survive coming fossil fuel shortages. It certainly saves a lot of money for the homeowner. Passive House in Alaska using…
A Gram of Prevention is Worth a Kiloliter of Benzine
If you don’t know how to fix things, stop breaking them. Stewart, however, said it could take months for the steam to cool and the pressure to drop. He said…
Did Nothing All Day. Sears Catalogue Came!
John Klein: This day, 30 years ago in Toronto, the Spring and Summer Sears Catalogue was delivered. Today, Target prepares to close in Canada. It’s a coincidence. Originally posted on…
When The Tories Left Office
I was too young in 1991 to put the news I was hearing into context. My family had worked for months on my Dad’s campaign for the Sask Liberals in…
Lang Should Be Fired Or Suspended
CANADALAND's investigation of @AmandaLang_CBC , by @sdbcraig , is now online: http://t.co/W7s8XUoX03 pic.twitter.com/FL23x8af34 — Jesse Brown (@JesseBrown) January 12, 2015 It’s been brewing for Lang for quite some months now.…
Snake Throwing Video
When a ‘night out with the boys and snake’ goes terribly wrong, you get an international disgrace. Remember the snake thrown behind the counter at Tim Horton's Dec 8th? YEP!…
The Hobbit Ends
I saw the last Hobbit movie on Friday, with Jeri. We had food at Montana’s just before. I had the veggie feta burger and it was very good, it tasted…
RCMP Pursuing A Relationship
Cop constructively abducts Native woman in Canada <~ media calls it "Pursuing a Relationship" FU pic.twitter.com/tdHy8daYKg — lastrealindians.com (@lastrealindians) January 9, 2015 RCMP officers don’t possess good sense given to…
How’s That City On The Hill?
From Barrett Brown, a wrongfully jailed journalist… in the USA. He’s imagining speaking to the founding fathers about the country’s progress: Benjamin Franklin: “It was among my fondest dreams that…
Lovely Sun and Jesse James
John Klein: 30 years ago yesterday, here’s what was on TV, and what the weather was like in Toronto. Originally posted on Grandparents' Journal: January 5, 1985 Lovely sun at…
Saskatoon A Day At A Time
Here’s a clever video that took more than a year to complete by a young Saskatoon man. It reminds me somewhat of my shorter-lived face-a-day project modeled on Noah Kalina’s…
More In Canada Now Willing To Accept Dictatorship
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…
January 30 Years Ago
Originally posted on Grandparents' Journal: My grandmother I knew as “Nana” lived in Toronto when I was young. She’d moved back there from California, before I was born. She kept…
New Solar in Ontario
Ontario isn’t as GD senseless as Saskatchewan’s government. They actually have somewhat of a Feed In Tariff program underway. The Ontario Power Authority has just extended its solar feed-in tariff…