CRTC, UBB and a Response from my MP
Am glad the CRTC has been ordered to review (read: ‘reverse’) its decision on usage-based Internet billing. But I won’t be happy until the CRTC has gone the way of…
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BC Liberal Leadership – Community Gaming Grants
Non profits throughout British Columbia rely on the province’s Community Gaming Grants program for their funding. For many, it’s their sole source of desperately needed dollars. The important work that…
How to Maintain Internet Access Even If Your Government Turns It Off
It wouldn’t surprise Peacenik at all if the Harper Gov’t tried to set up a kill switch for the Internet. He’s already allowed the CRTC to make it too expensive…
Ars Technica: "Sorry about that! Canada reverses metered Internet decision"
“Oops! Terrified by a critical mass of enraged broadband consumers, Canada’s government is telling its telecom regulator to rescind its approval of metered or “usage based” billing, or else. Industry…
The New Face of Revolution: After Tunisia and Egypt, the World
Ted Rall thinks there is hope for a revolution in the U.S.A. And every where else in the world. Peacenik thinks there is too. Peacenik was just reading about the…
In case you missed it…
You may have missed the news hidden in an ETA at the bottom of my post on the BC Liberal Party’s weighted vote proposal. I suppose it deserves a post…
BC Liberal Party Weighted Vote Proposal
The BC Liberal Party on February 12th will decide whether to adopt the weighted vote or to retain the current one-member-one-vote policy. It will take a two-thirds majority for the…
When Corporations Choose Despots Over Democracy
Obama and corporations desperately want the status quo. Even when the status quo means supporting a vicious tyrant. Egypt of course has been the country that has done much of…
How identity and leadership will factor on the future of Alberta politics
The two biggest factors that will determine the political future, coming out of this incredible state of flux, will be identity and leadership. I have often said that Alberta politics…
Tunisia’s Spark & Egypt’s Flame: The Middle East Is Rising
Peacenik is becoming bored with the Egyptian riots. Peacenik doesn’t know if that says something about Peacenik or about the state of the world. The world is in the early…
If you’re in Quebec: how did you find daycare?
Parenting comes with many challenges and it is essential that we help each other. A huge issue for many of us is finding a daycare. I posted a few months…
Overhauling RAMP
For 13 years, the Alberta Government has relied on the Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program (RAMP) to assess the impact of the oilsands. From resource development to environment, RAMP plays a…
Measles
I just watched CBC’s wonderful “fart in the mist”-sized Wendy Mesley do a measles-oriented video piece on Autism and the MMR Vaccine. The piece was quite good (as compared to…
Self-determination of Nations
I am glad for the people of Egypt. Self-determination of nations at its best. .
Holy Shit
There are any number of reasons to say Holy Shit! these days, be it social upheaval in the middle east; dumb ass ethically bankrupt Conservative ads or the coming wave…
BC Liberal Leadership Candidate George Abbott
At one time, I worried that BC Liberal leadership candidate George Abbott’s conciliatory positioning might impede a government lead by him from getting much done. The concern centred around a…
Women Lead Latin America’s Growing Anti-Militarization Movements
Women Lead Latin America’s Growing Anti-Militarization Movementsby Laura Carlsen, form Z-Net, January 26, 2011. When George W. Bush left the White House, the rest of the world breathed a sigh…
He actually did what?!: Energizing politics and other unacceptable antics
Do not adjust your television set. We are firmly in pre-election mode. The majority of CPC talking-boxes may reject this claim (even though their own fund raising material say otherwise)…