Pirate Bay documentary debuts online
The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard documentary, which tells the story behind the embattled Swedish Pirate Bay project, is now available on YouTube. The film just premiered in Europe and…
The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard documentary, which tells the story behind the embattled Swedish Pirate Bay project, is now available on YouTube. The film just premiered in Europe and…
As Kathleen Wynne is sworn in as Ontario’s first female Premier and generally awesome individual: Meanwhile, Andrea Horwath miscalculated and inexplicably missed a big moment: Busy day in #tbay –…
Spoiler alert: The U.S. Navy SEALS murder Osama Bin Laden and several others in his Pakistani compound without mercy and with vengeful malice. Most of the controversy swirling round the…
Kathleen Wynne’s new Ontario cabinet is being announced today, and my local MP, Liz Sandals, has apparently been tapped to become the new education minister. But that’s not the observation…
If you’ve frequented any LGBT media at all, you’ve heard about Uganda’s proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill (often referred to as the “Kill the Gays Bill”), and possibly other anti-gay legislative bills…
I was very proud to be asked by ONW Editor Susanna Kelley to write today’s op ed piece on the recent Ontario Liberal leadership election process. Please check it out…
Trudeau vs Reformer Murray Justin Trudeau told a crowd in Hamilton that a Liberal Party led by him would take steps to reengage Canadians in our political life: The Liberal…
Quand la nouvelle est tombée l’été dernier que la Banque du Canada avait effectué un nettoyage ethnique dans les images imprimées sur la monnaie canadienne, le faux-pas a fait le…
It has been a bad week for Senator Patrick Brazeau. After he was charged with assault and sexual assault in relation to a domestic incident at his Gatineau folks began…
Its not the institution, its the self serving and partisan people appointed to it…. Recent events have once again brought calls for the senate to be abolished or reformed and…
Occasionally films come out in the mainstream that give a glimpse of hope that perhaps the world of film is changing and becoming more adept at telling stories that don’t…
Standing for Free Speech: Students for Justice in Palestine at Brooklyn College in the run-up to the BDS event The BDS panel discussion at Brooklyn College went ahead Thursday. It…
The glaring contrast between employment numbers, and the unemployment rate, was highlighted by today’s labour force numbers from Statistics Canada (capably dissected elsewhere on this blog by Angella MacEwan). Paid…
Plenty of side issues now swirling around Patrick Brazeau, which to my mind are distractions from the real issue as articulated in this wheat from the chaff summation. This controversy…
I wrote this in response to this article that appeared in The Guardian on Feb. 5th Plan B Protesters Fined in Court . For more information on Plan B (no,…
Update: Holy shit: Senator Patrick Brazeau is in jail following an alleged domestic assault, sources tell CBC News, and has been removed from the Conservative Party’s caucus. Brazeau, who has…
This is so very, very good. Glen Pearson gets right to the heart of the problem of the growing disconnect of citizens from their governments and politics generally. The entire…
Rosa Brooks unpacks the Obama JD’s targeted killing memo: “Like many legal documents, this one does fine on its own terms, but looks a lot less satisfying when taken out…
Both are recommending to their tens of thousands of members that they join the Liberal Party as Supporters and vast votes for meaningful electoral reform when voting for the next…
Hump Day Tuesday (oops) mega-link blowout: How Idle No More Could Help Save Canadian Democracy Mounties snooped on Occupy protesters in nation’s capital: documents Police drones raise fears over personal…