Letter to the Globe and Mail, July 30:It's remarkable how in the current debate about the U.S. debt ceiling, the extravagance of American military spending is seldom even mentioned. In…
Wanderer over at Lost on the Floor makes a point: My manager remarked to me that night-shifters tend to, “have a bit of chip on our shoulders, almost like the…
First, a disclaimer: I have known Nycole Turmel since 1985, and worked with her closely as an executive vice-president of the PSAC from 1994-2003. Over the years we had many…
Legendary media charlatan Andrew Breitbart does it again. One of his blogs put up an edited version of a video seemingly showing MSNBC talking head Norah O’Donnell saying, “…you gave…
Congrats to the USA for raising the debt ceiling. Wait, is that a good thing? No, I’d say it isn’t. I think the fight over reigning in US spending is…
The editorial board at the Telegram understands the point exactly. It’s a point your humble e-scribbler has been harping on for six years to one extent or another. And it’s…
In what will generally be condemned by everyone as a creepy dystopian move, the Chinese government has massively expanded its video surveillance network into supermarkets, schoolrooms, university classrooms, malls –…
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Image courtesy of Edenpictures on Flickr Written by Stefanie Lee and Carla Cristoffanini The CRTC recently released its annual Communications Monitoring Report, which shows that numbers of broadband Internet and…
By Peter Nowak The CRTC released its annual Communications Monitoring Report last week and, as usual, the document shows Canada to have a very healthy – and wealthy – telecom…
Rush_Limbaugh.jpg They come at you at public events, wanting to argue. They light up the switchboards whenever there’s a radio show about climate change. They commandeer your blog comments ...
The Baseline Cowboys were catapulted into the local celebrity spotlight over the past few weeks as bloggers blogged, reporters reported, and photographers photographed them. They’ve been in the Ottawa Citizen…
One might think that an expose into Nycole Turmel's political involvement would go back further than the past five years. But surely Daniel Leblanc wouldn't have cut anything important out…
Joe Nocera's column in today's New York Times will be quoted often in years to come. He and a few others -- like Paul Krugman and Robert Reich -- have…
but the stuff hasn't been put away yet. The house is nearly as big a mess as the state of the world.I'll be back with before- and after pix as…
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:BC courts divided on Islamic divorce law - Vancouver Sun -http://goo.gl/BtrRYThe horrible crime of incivility - Globe and Mail -…
This is a fantastic video highlighting landscape architect Claude Cormier's "Les Boules Roses" (The Pink Balls), 170,000 pink resin balls fastened to wires strung out at different levels and through…
Not surprising, when you think about it. First there are obvious anomalies, such as the police taking such a long time to get to the island where the massacre took…
Monday, August 1, is a holiday in Canada. Everyone knows that. But what is the name of the holiday?This name is deeply rooted in the Canadian past. It commemorates one…
In arguably the most homophobic place on earth, Jamaica, a new anti-homophobia video public service announcement (PSA) campaign debuted Monday on television and the Internet. The campaign, "Unconditional Love," features…
