Laws for a Country That Holds Itself Above the Law
America has increasingly been turning itself into an outlaw state. It practices indefinite detention without charge or trial. It resorts to torture. It violates foreign sovereignty to kill as it…
America has increasingly been turning itself into an outlaw state. It practices indefinite detention without charge or trial. It resorts to torture. It violates foreign sovereignty to kill as it…
It will probably be sooner rather than later before we find out whether Christy Clark will become British Columbia’s Judas Goat to the Northern Gateway and Kinder Morgan pipeline/supertanker fiascos.…
It’s not carjacking. Nobody with a gun jumping into the driver’s seat and speeding off with your ride. It’s car-hacking. A cyber criminal hacking into a car’s computer systems to…
The Harper government never ceases playing up the terrorist threat that Canada faces. They’re here, they’re there, they’re everywhere. Supertankers heavily laden with bitumen. How vulnerable are they to terrorism…
So, let’s run this scenario, Mound’s favourite passtime. How might the timeline of Mike Duffy’s expense woes play out now that we know a few more details. It begins (for…
This could explain why the Prime Minister’s Office told Duffy to refuse to cooperate with the forensic audit into his expenses. Not only was Duffy pocketing tens of thousands of…
The north pole is on the move and, according to scientists, it’s moving because of climate change and the loss of Arctic ice. From 1982 to 2005, the pole drifted…
CBC’s Kady O’Malley sums up the Duffy audit/expense controversy quite nicely. Why did Stephen Harper’s chief of staff, Nigel Wright, cut a personal cheque to repay Senator Mike Duffy’s controversial…
BC NDP leader Adrian Dix is a rare bird. Or at least he would have been a rare bird if he’d actually won last night. For that would have been…
Any politician knows that information is power. Digital information is power on steroids at the speed of light. Privacy is the best possible defence you have against enslavement and oppression.…
Sideshow Steve Harper and his British counterpart, Austerity Dave Cameron, may be widely disliked by their citizens, but they are taking care of business. Cameron, according to documents leaked to…
It was the New Dems’ election to lose and that’s just what they did. They lost to a government that was roundly despised with a record rich in corruption, scandal,…
Canada learned a lesson tonight on how fiercely negative campaigning can salvage the electoral fortunes of even a dishonest and corrupt government. The British Columbia NDP, by everyone’s assessment, was…
He’s back. Donald Rumsfeld has written a leadership guide entitled Rumsfeld’s Rules that is being released today. Wired has a review. Who better to impart life lessons than the only…
It turns out that the Chinese Communist leadership and the Canadian Conservative leadership believe in a lot of the same stuff. They both want economic liberalism but political conformity and…
There doesn’t seem to be a day that passes anymore that doesn’t bring some but today we have two outrages to pass along courtesy of the Sydney Morning Herald. First…
Harry Leslie Smith says he’s too old to fight those who today would wreck the civilization he and so many others fought and in too many cases died to protect.…
The Saskatchewan Water Security Agency recorded this amazing video of a massive ice surge along the Saskatchewan River.
An eye-opener in today’s Guardian reveals that, before she jettisoned the Alaska governor’s office to join John McCain’s presidential campaign, Sarah Palin was actively involved on the climate change front.…
From the New Yorker. Nicholas Thompson, on the crossing of the 400 ppm marker, tries to put our civilization’s future in perspective, to show the moral collapse that we work…