CRTC Response To Gamers’ Complaint
From the updated CGO forum thread: The CRTC has responded to this complaint in 2 parts. In the first complaint about policy adjustments and recommendations, I will have to re-file,…
Guest Post: Beth Elliott’s Rebuttal of the Brennan-Hungerford Submission
Beth Elliott is a San Francisco Bay Area writer, musician and lesbian activist. The first transsexual woman to transition to be an out lesbian, she served a year’s term as…
follow-up: cuisinart honours its warranty
Although this earlier post - "we work to buy things that are built to die so that we must work to buy more things that will break" - was not…
Green Energy Proposals Part II: Party Positions
In Part I, I sketched an overview of the consequences of various green energy proposals. Because it is election season in Ontario, let me note the following party observations with…
Green Energy Proposals Part I: An Overview
With a variety of different green energy proposals floating around, it is worth recalling what the various schemes are and what their advantages and disadvantages are. In Part I, I…
Busting the union-busting bills
Anti-union legislation has been all the rage in the U.S. following last November's election of a number of right-wing governors. Most notorious is Wisconsin's Scott Walker, infamous for his polarizing…
Armageddon Time. Mark Steyn and Marci McDonald battle it out.
At least Marci McDonald ("The Armageddon Factor") and Mark Steyn (“After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”) agree on something, even if they mean totally different things. The difference? One advocates…
Poll question – Are women politicians treated differently than men?
93% of you said Yes!
New NDP Policy: You get $1.6 billion! You get $1.6 billion! Everyone gets $1.6 billion!!!
Honestly, there is no excuse for how stupid of an idea this is. I get that voters rejected the HST in BC; that's fine, that's democracy, even if it will…
Extinguished
It's hardly the kind of decisive victory the anti-HST movement would have expected a year ago, but 55% of British Columbian have voted to replace the HST with the GST…
BC HST Dead as a Doornail
The people of British Columbia have spoken. The Harmonized Sales Tax initiative sprung on them in a totally underhanded manner by Stephen Harper's new ambassador to Britain has gone down…
HST Referendum Result….Is It A Class War?
AllTheBreakdownsThatFitRidingSplitsVille ____ Update 11:30am Friday: Look, when you hear all the codswallop (that has already started) about how all this chaos and uncertainty is going to be a horrible, terrible…
BCers Vote To Remain Dippy Hippys
With the increased cost of doing business in that province brought about by today's vote against a harmonized sales tax, BC citizens will all have plenty of time not working…
Talking Points Memo: Tar sands "make-or-break" issue with Obama
Our tar sands environmental predicament from an American progressive view. Could it be that Obama holds our polluting province in his hands? Most likely not, but it does make for…
Three MF Amigos split up #nlpoli
Liberal leader Kevin Aylward may have personally been waffling about Muskrat Falls a week or so ago, but his position has shifted: An Aylward led government would immediately halt all…
On gullibility
I'm pretty sure I've read columns and articles purporting to be written by Murray Mandryk over a period of several years. But I'm having trouble making sense of that recollection…
Before the Revolution
On a hot August afternoon, a few years before the Revolution, Winston sat in his cubicle on the fifth floor of the Department trying to connect the dots. Connecting dots…
US State Department Declares Keystone Pipeline Low Risk
TransCanada Corp's proposed Keystone XL pipeline to move Athabasca Tar Sands bitumen to Gulf Coast refiners cleared a big hurdle today. The US State Department reported the venture poses "no…
"Twinkle, twinkle little star"
Planet could be massive diamond Edmonton Journal , Aug 26, 2011 LONDON - Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny…
Dick Cheney: A war criminal
He stands behind torture and waterboarding. Waterboarding is indeed a war crime and it is one of the many war crimes this evil creature has committed. Visit msnbc.com for breaking…