Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Facebook-Skype Video Calling: A Getting-Started Guide - PCWorld -http://goo.gl/rS2JSFormer editor faces arrest over phone hacking scandal -http://goo.gl/j2v71 Apple files trade…
A pleasant couple, likable, seemingly sound moral fiber, Will and Kate nothing particularly offensive on a personal level. The point, there are about ten couples on my street who share…
I posted 8 Simple Rules for the Liberal Leadership Race a few weeks ago, prompting a few readers to ask for my thoughts on the candidates. The short answer to…
I have referred several times in this space to Barbara Tuchman's book, The March of Folly. In particular, I have returned to Tuchman's definition of "wooden-headedness:"Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception,…
As always, The Real News offers a refreshing perspective rarely found in the mainstream media. Anything that continues to keep the G20 police abuses of Charter Rights in the public…
This is quite something. 7400 fewer Newfoundlanders and Labradorians working this month compared to last. More info here.Graphic source: Statistics Canada
One very bad way to kill a rumour is to broadcast it, put it in print, on the evening news and online complete with a comments section.
In reading books and essays written by, and not just about, the neoconservatives, I've found many common elements, from the philosophers they quote to the people they hate.One common desire…
Image from Die StandardI'm a big fan of public artworks that remind humans of their potential to terrorize each other under the pretext of any number of ideologies or religious…
I’m very happy to present today’s Guest Slap. The author, Dr. Flamingo Jones, is a world-renowned archaeologist and researcher at the University of Oxbridgeshire. While I know little about his…
Note the male royalty guy (Charles? Wally?) in both pics. His pose in the .jpg below is saying: Surely you jest? The one below can be interpreted as: No... fucking...way!The…
Tony Clement promises that budget cuts won’t put Canadians at risk, though there are already some disputes about that with the closure of rescue centres in Newfoundland and Quebec City.…
conversation-full-logo.jpg CLIMATE scientists must sometimes feel that they're taking part in some horrific, humourless worldwide game of Chinese Whispers.After spending months, in some cases yea...
There is going to be a huge kerfuffle in a section of the God blogosphere as news of a decision by a major ministry leader to step away for awhile…
Christopher Bird, who is completing his articles with our office this month, was nicely featured in a July 7, 2011 profile at The Grid. Chris offers some sound advice on…
Not with a bang but a whimper.The Telegraph reports that the phone hacking scandal which has destroyed Britain's 168-year-old News of the World newspaper all began with Prince William straining…
Scared by althetrainer The "it's gotta be genetic" gang is running scared over the recent twins study which confirms the pardigm shift in autism causation from 100% genetic to a…
There’s no escaping Will & Kate: The National Pest. (Influential right-wing Canadian newspapers may not appear exactly as illustrated.) Below: Rupert Murdoch, Lord Tubby Black, and Peter Pocklington. Trust Rupert…
Lots of Open Data Action in Canada
A lot of movement on the open data (and not so open data) front in Canada. Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Open Data Portal Launched Some readers may remember that…