Swaping songs for socks: has Indiegogo become colonized by capital?
Remember when crowdfunding was a baby? It was an innocent but fierce little phenomenon that you would feed, along with a whole community, and lo and behold, a project would…
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Volkswagen’s Too Cool Autostadt
If you live in certain parts of Europe, you can get a Volkswagen directly from the factory. Your car is built to order and then stored in one of these…
Twitter as public space, and related problems
Last weekend, the Globe and Mail published two articles on Twitter, both of which were dismissive of the platform and were written by authors who do not actively use it.…
High prices & lack of competition mean Canada is the only developed country with under 100% cell phone penetration
Thanks to factors like better prices and competition, we see places where individuals can, and often do, own more than one phone. Many people like to have more than one…
Coming Soon to Canada, "Fortress B.C."
The CBC’s Stephen Smart sees rough waters and rocky shoals ahead for Ottawa-B.C. relations after Tuesday’s provincial elections. Perhaps for the first time in his reign our eastern ruler may…
Will Future Generations Call Obama The ‘Environmental President’ Or An Abject Failure?
This is a guest post by Joe Romm, cross-posted from ClimateProgress with permission. It’s tempting to grade the President on a curve, but future generations won’t — if we destroy…
And Speaking Of The Tarsands ….
This is brilliant. Thanks to Anon, who, in his comment on my previous post, directed me to this video: Let’s try to spread this as widely as possible. Mockery and…
FREE CBC from Harper Conservatives political interference
By: Friends of Canadian Broadcasting | Press Release: OTTAWA, May 8, 2013 – No public broadcaster in any free and democratic country anywhere in the world faces political interference with…
Too Stupid for Satire?
Is political satire too risky for American consumption? Luke O’Neil argues in The New Republic that fake news has to go. Did you hear the one about the racist NRA…
NDP demands action on missing $3.1 billion in anti-terrorism funding
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Last week, the Auditor General reported that the Harper Conservatives can’t account for $3.1 billion of the $12.9 billion allocated to the Public…
May 10: Let’s start with booze….and then see why New Brunswickers are passive….
There’s a popular belief in Canada and the US that heavy drinking of alcohol actually began with the passage of prohibition. Not true. Canadians and Americans were heavy drinkers up…
No Warts, No Boils – Yet
No boils. Not a wart to be seen. I was a little worried about what I might discover when I looked at myself in the bathroom mirror this morning. Yesterday…
UN must challenge Canada’s complicity in mining’s human rights abuses
Canada is due for review at the UN human rights council – abuses by its mining companies must not be overlooked By: Meera Karunananthan | The Guardian (UK), Published on…
Hearsay admissible in Child Welfare matters only if a traditional exception or principled approach applies
Nunavut (Director of Child and Family Services) v. S.Q. and L.K., 2013 NUCJ 05, released a few moments ago holds that the hearsay rule applies to child welfare cases in…
Rolling The Dice: CO2 Concentration Hits Record High Amid Global Inaction On Climate Change
Via The Guardian: The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached 399.72 parts per million (ppm) and is likely to pass the symbolically important 400ppm level for the…
"Untermensch" Enters the American Right’s Political Dialogue
The Heritage Institute – neo-conservative America’s premier think tank – is warning Americans that Hispanics are way too intellectually inferior to be accorded U.S. citizenship. In High German I think…
All for show
Predictably, the Cons are running through their Rolodex of excuses as to why they’re spending public money on partisan media monitoring – with the answer being that they want to…
What Must Prince Charles Think of Canada’s Prince of Darkness?
If there’s one bunch of Canadians who adore the monarchy it has to be Conservatives. That’s why it was no end of fun to see the Royal next in line…
ConCalls: No Robo #RoboCon #cdnpoli
Good news on the RoboCon front: A team of talented, non-political-party-aligned Canadians is working to notify masses of people of the piles of evidence detailing the largest election fraud scheme…
A New Generation Discovers Robert Nelson
Robert Nelson has new fans! The leader of the 1838 phase of Lower Canada’s Rebellion and president of the Republic of Lower Canada has his own page and song produced…