Canada's Internet is below average, according to this report, not even close to being the fastest. The Big Telecom cartel is slowing our digital competitiveness and Internet affordability, and they're…
I woke up this morning to talk of a curry war in Singapore. As I lay in bed listening to a contributor from there on Radio-Can, I remembered the absolutely…
Bull fighting is animal cruelty that has some legitimacy in Spain, but that has started to change. For many years animal rights activists have been championing the safety and good-treatment…
There are so many ways that capitalism is absolutely irrational (not to mention inefficient at allocating resources) - the fact that the USA spends $1 trillion on "defence" while children…
West Texas Intermediate crude is hovering around a price that some analysts say puts some oil sands in doubt. Meanwhile, North Sea Brent crude - the price used to benchmark…
OK, so it’s not so much that blogging is, like, so 2008, but that I’ve been tremendously busy between work, paddling, and working out. But now that paddling is pretty…
This could be interesting. It could also turn out to be a whitewash, knowing Mick Jagger's aging propensity for people of wealth and taste. But I'll keep my mind open.…
Nothing to celebrate, actually. Today is estimated to be the day on which mankind has consumed the entire stocks of renewable resources our planet will generate this year. Today is…
I'll have more on the New Democratic Party's leadership race - or lack thereof - later. But for now, here's an interview with candidate Romeo Saganash posted on the McGill…
From Sister Sage's Musings "Local right-wing gadfly and embarrassment to the city, Vancouver’s Paris Hilton, Leah Costello, is hosting war criminal Dick Cheney at her very elite, very right wing…
When it comes to foreign policy, Canada has traveled a great distance since Stephen Harper became Prime Minister. Lester Pearson would not recognize his country.There was no greater supporter of…
Watching the news last night, I was reminded once more of how personally repugnant my decision to vote for the McGuinty government is. I cited the reasons for my shift…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Supreme Court could rule by next spring on constitutionality of health care reform - http://t.co/GtuNDcHs Conrad Murray/Michael Jackson Trial…
Via Think Progress, Bill Clinton, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting, blasting the Republican Party for supporting denial of climate science: “The best thing you could do is…
When socialite Leah Costello announced that Dick Cheney was to speak at the Vancouver Club, I thought nothing more of the venue, concentrating on the horror of a war criminal…
april 26 grading blues, a photo by dewberry1964 on Flickr. Ignatius was working. That was the first rule for writers. It wasn’t about the tools, his teachers had said, way…
reality.jpg Last week, I took to task a really poor USA Today op-ed making the following claim: "In short, for every anti-science Republican that exists, there is at least one…
It's been blogged about again and again, but that is because it's so stupid and at the same time, scary. With their majority government, the Tories are looking to spearhead…
R. v. Lawrence, 2011 NSCA 84 deals with the responsibility of a Court to give very strong consideration to jointly recommended proposals for disposition in a criminal matter. A joint…
Several weeks ago, the first results of CERN's Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets (or CLOUD) experiment were revealed. This experiment was designed to study the chemical factors behind cloud formation and,…
