Vizualize.Me, the future of the résumé?
Last Monday I had a 10-minute Skype chat with Eugene Woo, the founder of start-up tech company Vizualize.Me, a service/app/website that turns your LinkedIn data and turns it into a…
#Jan25: A soundtrack of the revolution – Q&A with Syrian-American hip-hop artist Omar Offendum
Omar Offendum almost his train of thought when he saw a video post on his Facebook wall, mid Skype interview, of his song #Jan25 being played in Tahrir Square. It…
Separated at birth: the eyes have it edition
Tea Party presidential wannabe Michelle Bachman from the cover of Newsweek. Provincial Conservative natural resources minister Shawn Skinner. - srbp -
Conservatives: Doing Pork-barrel by the Book
An election issue that was overlooked by the electorate was the G8 spending by Tony Clement, a minister in Harper’s cabinet. Tony is very active on Twitter, he’s practically the…
Wesley Romey’s Story: Why Canada Needs Medicare for Autism Now!
Medicare for Autism Now! has released the film Medicare's Orphans second trailer. In this trailer Wesley Romey and his mother Laurie Guerra tell Wesley's story. It is the story of…
What McFadyen’s cuts would mean to YOU!
We know that Hugh McFadyen’s personal ideology would compel him to balance the Budget on a year-over basis. Though Hugh has been trying to run away from this for the…
NAFTA Superhighway Rearing Head in Republican Leadership Race
P’n'P covered the NASCO Corridor/NAFTA Superhighway quite a while ago, back when all the powers-that-be were denying it was a plan in action. Well, Regina now has its ‘global transportation…
Observation for Today, a Day of Finishing up Odds and Ends
Despite 35 years of metric in Canada, construction is all in the old inches and feet mode, while temperature, speed and some kind of food are metric. What accounts for…
Michaela Keyserlingk is right to attempt to shame them…
sadly i don't think they have any shame. still...i salute her and support her. this is from politics and its discontents, which is one of the many blogs telling her…
Office of the Auditor General: would you trust your books to this crowd?
Because they are our books. After a blatant cover-up involving the pork-barrelling expenditure of millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money by Conservative minister Tony Clement is revealed by the Official…
History Repeating: 130 years later and still stuck in "Telephonmania"
Interestingly, Arstechnica points to questions that were raised 130 years ago regarding the telephone industry and its implementation of metered billing. Sound familiar? Like those who protested in 1886, the…
Offshore board releases second part of offshore helicopter safety inquiry
From the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board: The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) received the Phase II Report of the Offshore Helicopter Safety Inquiry today and is…
Civilian Support For Gadhafi SOARS As A Result Of Canadian And NATO Bombing Missions In Libya
"Of the 2,335 tribes in Libya, over 2,000 are still pledging their allegiance to the embattled president. At present, it is the gasoline shortage due to the embargo and lack…
Gazawood: Filmakers under siege – Making films that capture the ‘soul’ of Gaza
Tarzan and Arab are Gaza artists who wanted to make films about their home. But they lacked resources, so instead they started making film posters for films that they wanted…
Bat wanted to travel first class on a Delta flight
He probably also carried a gift of rabies for his fellow passengers. Read the story here
Nutroots conservatives: the incredible thickness of being
Ever have one of those days when a couple of houseflies in the livingroom seem more worthy of your attention than, say, an overdue work assignment, the London riots, what’s…
Video: Rafe & Damien on EVOTV
Rafe Mair and Damien Gillis discuss The Common Sense Canadian and their coverage of key environmental and public policy issues in BC and Canada on Shaw's EVOTV, with host Irma…
Mammoliti will protect our precious bodily fluids
Toronto city councillor George "Giorgio" Mammoliti (he changed his name in 2002 from English to Italian to better reflect his desire to suck up to immigrant voters in his ward…
Cons – in the black helicopter biz since 1951….
Funny cartoon… Share and Enjoy: Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Cogeco Hikes Rates to Pay for Failed Investment
By Phillip Dampier of Stop the Cap Cogeco Cable customers are about to pay for the company’s tragic financial results from its Portuguese operations in the form of broad-based price…