More Onion than the Onion. Fox News reports on black hip hop birthday for Obama.
It’s been amusing, if not a little sad, to see the right wing trying to outdo each other criticizing Obama for having a birthday party. They’re all pissed but none…
National Post: In the new Canada, the web browses you
Thanks to the hard work of the pro-Internet community and the Stop Online Spying Coalition, word is really starting to get out about the government's costly and poorly thought-out online…
Will Harper jeopardize Canada’s status as ‘lowest terror risk among western economies’?
Canada has been largely free from terror attacks experienced by other western nations at the hands of Islamic extremists, thanks in large part to the Liberals’ refusal to engage in…
Anonymous NDP insiders
It didn't take long for that shoe to be on the other foot:There's a serious unease in the NDP over interim leader Nycole Turmel's memberships in two Quebec sovereigntist parties,…
Abdelrazik: a calculated leak and a Conservative threat
Hard on the heels of a Con campaign against “war criminals” at least two of whom are unknown to authorities in their own countries, comes a strategic leak about Abousfian…
"NDP Staffer" Joins Witch Hunt Against NDP
Pretend the following isn't a NDP staffer, who does it sound like?:The staffer, speaking anonymously to RDI's La période des questions, said it shows a lack of integrity that Turmel…
Social Europe Journal
For those of you out there who have not seen it, I recommend Social Europe Journal. There is a lot of good progressive economic commentary by leading European economists and…
Did they really think we wouldn’t find out?
Japan's Fukushima catastrophe brings big radiation spikes to B.C. After Japan's Fukushima catastrophe, Canadian government officials reassured jittery Canadians that the radioactive plume billowing from the destroyed nuclear reactors posed…
The good, the bad and the crazy
The political elite and its stenographic media don’t classify types of terrorists. If they did we would get the good, the bad and the crazy. Since no one is perfect,…
There Is Still Time To Use Your HST/Fire Extinguisher…
WeAreAllRayBradburyNowFahrenheit451Ville....Because If You Don't Gordon Campbell's Disco Inferno Will Burn You and Yours Forever.It's too late for mail, but the deadline for direct drop-offs is 4:30pm, today, Friday Aug 5th,…
Oil Industry Steps Up Astroturf Efforts For 2012 Election
astroturf.jpg The oil industry has put their astroturf and lobbying efforts into overdrive over the last few months, preparing for a bitter fight in the upcoming 2012 presidential election. In…
SlutWalk is so June 2011
While some heralded SlutWalk as the future of feminism, the lack of hype around Calgary’s second attempt at SlutWalk reveals that it was little more than a trend that has…
SlutWalk is so June 2011
While some heralded SlutWalk as the future of feminism, the lack of hype around Calgary’s second attempt at SlutWalk reveals that it was little more than a trend that has…
Big Profits for Big Telecom as Internet Advertising Spending Rises
There is big money to be made on the Internet, no breaking news there, but have you noticed the huge increase in online advertisements? Currently, the Internet is the fastest…
Former Iranian Guard commander to become OPEC boss
Now this is interesting. Brigadier General Rostam Ghasemi, a senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, has been approved by Iran's parliament as the country's next oil minister. This automatically…
moby duck sails into the sunset
I've finished reading Moby Duck by Donovan Hohn, one of the very best books I've read in some time. In earlier posts about this book (here and here), I said…
According to Fox News, only black men were invited to Obama’s birthday party
It's been amusing, if not a little sad, to see the right wing trying to outdo each other criticizing Obama for having a birthday party. They're all pissed but none…
The Politics of Wind Power: Liberals look to ‘John Tory’ Tim Hudak
The Ontario Liberals sent a message to the future this week: it warned Conservative Premier Tim Hudak that if he wants to keep his absurd, long-standing promise to put a…
Domain name is "personal property"
Tucows.Com Co. v. Lojas Renner S.A., 2011 ONCA 548 holds a domain name is personal property for the purposes of civil litigation in Ontario: The attributes of property for purposes of rule 17.02(a) ...
Where, oh where, is Patrick Ross?
Readers might remember that some time ago blogger Canadian Cynic, who had been grossly libelled by perennial fratboi Patrick Ross, obtained a whopping default judgement against the aforesaid Patrick Ross,…