ShutOutOnlineAnti-SocialMediaConsultVilleSean Holman, through an FOI request, came up with some interesting traffic stats on the HSTinBC.ca (mis?) information website.In case you missed it, all the trumpeting of said (mis?) information…
Because statements never meant to be seen by the general voting public are just oodles of fun to show: Incidentally, one wonders what Hudak would say to this document while…
A chapter in local history was written, and closed, this week. The last freight train left Collingwood on July 14, 2011, ending more than 160 years of rail service to…
The net neutrality violation that never was OpenMedia.ca put out a press release this morning in response to comments Shaw president Peter Bissonnette provided to the Calgary Herald last night.…
The day began with the announcement that News International CEO Rebekah Moores had resigned. Now she's followed by her predecessor and Rupe Murdoch's handpicked publisher of The Wall Street Journal…
coal ships.JPG SO Australia’s carbon price cards are finally on the table.From July next year, the Federal Government will look to price greenhouse gas emissions at $23 per tonne rising…
I've been thinking aloud recently about whether or not the Liberal Party would have been put into a better position post-election if said election was held during the fall of…
A question which, incidentally, has no good answer. And, by the way, defunding abortion is not a decades old position, as Hudak staffer Jacob Bloom has suggested (in a tweet…
The Grid TO | Ford's consultants: Miller was rightLook wait-and-give-him-a-chance people and Ford followers: even the consultants, who Ford wasted a lot of money on, agree with David Miller, 1/3…
"It sucks". On a slightly more serious front, here's the dancer's reasoning for her mom's media detractors.Do you feel like your mother has experienced extra media scrutiny? Yeah, I think…
I suppose that few people are in danger of suggesting that Rob Ford is the sharpest knife in the drawer, which makes it all the more unfortunate that he's swinging…
Responding to a request for his position on abortion: “I believe that it is the government’s role to promote the choice of life in childbearing decisions, to encourage women to…
The guy who gunned down the brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai is almost a metaphor for what's never going to let us 'fix' Afghanistan.Two days ago, Ahmed Karzai was…
Screen shot 2011-07-15 at 7.05.56 PM.png Talisman Terry, the Friendly Fracosaurus, has been officially suspended from his duties as an unconventional gas mascot. The cartoon dinosaur was used to ...
Venerable Swedish car maker, SAAB, is all but officially kaput. It's all about SAAB's suspensions. First it suspended payments to its suppliers. Then it suspended production. Now it's suspended paycheques…
Murdoch and trophy in happier timesI'm not sure I buy that the News Corp boss was 'very shaken' by his apology to the family of the girl whose voice mail…
The modern march to free market supremacy is often thought to have begun with the ascendancy of the conservative regimes of Margaret Thatcher in the U.K. and the Ronald Reagan…
Canada Trustco Mortgage Co. v. Canada, 2011 SCC 36, released today, is an important decision dealing with the Bills of Exchange Act and, more generally, banking. The fact that a…
This is great on a couple of levels. First of all, it makes you think about all the strange little things we take for granted around us. I’m sure a…
