Geist: Can the CRTC act to promote competition and diversity?
By Michael Geist The CRTC's usage based billing oral hearing concluded yesterday with a final decision expected some time in the fall. This long post focuses on the shift in…
I had a Very Witty Title and Forboutagot it
For a while this morning, everything was normal. The sandy-haired gentleman sat at his kitchen table with a coffee and a bagel and seven or eight daily newspapers from all…
How Little Wisdom
Paul Krugman has a right to be pessimistic. The powerful elites on both sides of the Atlantic suffer from group think. And, instead of proving the truth of the old…
A new generation of threats to online freedom – Report by ONI details 3rd generation strategies for online interference
Worried about how the Internet is being transformed from a creative playground into a structure for dominance and control? You should be, at least that’s the warning from the OpenNet…
Koch Brothers And ExxonMobil Join Forces To Fight RGGI With Copy-Paste State Legislation
copy-and-paste.jpg As we’ve reported over and over again, the popular and successful Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and other regional climate agreements are under attack from po...
And in addition to letting industry monitor itself…
…environmental compliance-wise… comes news that the Cons are looking at turning another vital public sector function over to the private sector: search and rescue. I really don’t get this one.…
Rupert Murdoch Lied? It Can’t be True!
During his testimony to the British Parliament, Rupert Murdoch claimed not to know about the phone hacking.However, two former executives with News Corp disputed the claim, saying that Murdoch was…
More on abortion and Hudak
FACT: Planned Parenthood is funded, in part, through LHINs and the Government of Ontario. FACT: Tim Hudak is pro-life and has signed a pledge to defund abortion. FACT: Tim Hudak…
A Couple of Laughs on a Hot Day When the Less You Wear the Better (But No Elastic-Breaking, Please)
Got this from a friend this morning. It seems perfect as an antidote for a day that looks blistering:"In April, Maya Angelou was interviewed by Oprah on her 70+ birthday.…
The Star: Police Strip Searches On The Rise
As reported in today's Toronto Star, "Toronto police strip searched roughly 60 per cent of the people they arrested in 2010, compared to 32 per cent 10 years ago, according…
One in four Massachusetts gay teens is homeless
The online American Journal of Public Health has published the results from a study indicating that 25 percent of Massachusetts gay teens are homeless, compared to 3.2 percent of their…
There’s a fly in my soup
I’m not sure if this is racist or not, but it’s certainly not PC. Go Spike! Love Spike’s commitment to the bit at the end! Alltop is also an equal-opportunity…
How low will Rupert Murdoch go?
This low.From Murdoch's The Times.
3943…Calgary The Magnificent
I haven't been since the Jimmy Carter was POTUS but what I read and hear about Calgary is pretty impressive.Add this to the list.Reported on Milkman Unlimited by Emma Harding…
Griffin Helicopter Inquiry Report Shows Excesses of Government Secrecy
You may have noticed in what passes for “news” the announcement that the Canadian Forces has completed its inquiry into the crash of a Griffon helicopter crash in Afghanistan in…
Containing Ottawa’s Skyrocketing Power Bill
by Tom Adams and Brian Lee Crowley Federal taxpayers are exposed to an ex...
Ottawa police looking increasingly Third World
Fortunately with the crime rate so low, the police are not as important as they once were... . http://natpo.st/pKXYtK Chris Selley, National Post Friday, Jul. 22, 2011 On Tuesday, a…
Ottawa police looking increasingly Third World
Fortunately with the crime rate so low, the police are not as important as they once were... . http://natpo.st/pKXYtK Chris Selley, National Post Friday, Jul. 22, 2011 On Tuesday, a…
Informing on your neighbours
Because we are a country that apparently believes in informing on one’s neighbours, the government took the rather unprecedented move of posting the names and photos of 30 “suspected war…