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6259…Justin Trudeau Has A Plan
From my real world and Facebook friend Shane Mackenzie. WFDS
6258…Forget About The Senate
Global reports that the NHL is going to send players to the 2014 Olympics. WFDS
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Engadget: Rural town in Albert to create first 1Gps Internet service
Residents of the rural community of Olds, Alberta are taking the Internet into their own hands – and how! Article by Mariella Moon for Engadget: All you cool city cats…
Friday night blues blogging
Like so many blues musicians, Larry Garner is from Louisiana — he was born in New Orleans and grew up in Baton Rouge. Here he is performing Buster. One of…
What in Hell…?
Hades, you know, isn’t a place. It’s a guy. The Greek god of the underworld. His territory consists of a bunch of domains, including the rather unpleasant Tartarus, where souls…
know your rights, rental edition
After a week of looking at houses for rent, we found something we love and put down a deposit. My dread of moving has been mostly replaced with a mixture…
Guest Post: Applying For Social Security Benefits for Your Loved One and For Yourself
If you provide ongoing care for a disabled individual, then you may need to be the one who applies for benefits on his or her behalf. There are additionally some…
What Young People Are Teaching Us About Empathy
Click the chart to see more inspiring charts! Descending/increasing lines indicate less/more concern among different generations of high school graduates for the various ideas. I have so much hope for…
Jeremy Scahill at Socialism 2013: free press under threat, al-Awlaki, dirty wars
Jeremy Scahill is National Security Correspondent for The Nation magazine and author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. His most recent book Dirty Wars: The…
Techvibes: Big Telecom raising its prices to spite the CRTC
We’re asking you: Are Big Telecom unnecessarily raising their monthly price plans in order to spite the CRTC’s new Code of Conduct? Article by Knowlton Thomas for Techvibes: Canadian consumers…
How Much Do We Really Pay For Those Bargains?
There is a segment in the documentary, The Corporation, where Michael Walker of The Fraser Institute extols how corporations help developing nations by using their labour to make their products.…
A bunker-style session
Colin Freeze has a piece in the Globe and Mail reporting on an unprecedented session of the Supreme Court of Canada scheduled to take place on Oct. 11th of this…
The Royal Whatsit: Much ado about nothing
Chances are you are at least dimly aware that William the Nearly Bald, future King of England and (sigh) Canada, successfully knocked up his wife, the comely Kate Middleton. The…
Conservatives ignoring housing, food security needs in Canada’s North
Stephen Harper and the Conservatives are making the cost of living unsustainable for families in Canada’s North, according to Yvonne Jones, the Liberal MP for Newfoundland and Labrador. The post…
Street Food: What’s the Big Deal?
Montreal has its first street food trucks this summer at various sites around the city There’s been a lot of comment, most of it favourable, about the 27 trucks that…