why watching democracy now, of course. :)Exclusive: Julian Assange of WikiLeaks & Philosopher Slavoj Žižek In Conversation With Amy GoodmanIn one of his first public events since being held under…
International Institute of Mobile Technologies and Engineers Without Borders Toronto have joined forces to create Mobiles without Borders to encourage the use of mobiles in development. To start things off…
“George Papandreou is not bought, he is rented. He sells public enterprises to the multinationals. He reduces wages, pensions and employment at the behest of the IMF. He turns over…
This could also be titled: Can't anybody here play this game? There's a post up at Let Freedom Rain based on a media story announcing the intention of the Liberal…
I read Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham for the Slaves of Golconda bookclub. Written in 1930, it is narrated by the midlist writer William Ashenden. As a young man…
2011 has been a wet year on the prairies. As a result, trillions of mosquitoes are breeding in every ditch, slough and creek in the province. You can't blame Premier…
This is not a complicated post. Just a simple idea: Why not create an Open311 add-on for Ushahidi? So what do I mean by that, and why should we care?…
From David Gollob, Director of Communications, Canadian Human Rights Commission: The Commission did not accept any complaints under section 13 in 2010.
I'll give Sun Media this much: they're being slightly less partisan than I'd have expected in their bombast, following up their demand to fire a diplomat for the crime of…
I thought it a travesty that no clear evidence to either exonerate or convict Casey Anthony was ever produced by the prosecution. In a case that involved the death of…
Heartland_Logo.png So recently, I’ve watched a few videos from the Heartland Institute conference on “Restoring the Scientific Method”—and it has been a fascinating experi...
Just curious….did you have a good childhood? If you’re reading this in a feed reader or email, you’ll need to visit www.knitnut.net to answer the poll question. Rest assured, all…
I've been yelling for the last couple of years that the first thing the Liberals needed to do to beat the Cons was to raise funds to create effective ads.…
Reading Christopher Hitchens’s article, titled “Some questions for the ‘activists’ aboard the Gaza flotilla”, in Tuesday’s edition of the National Post, almost got me to write a letter to Mr.…
Unless Stephen Harper breaks his own fixed election date law (ha ha ha!), we'll have a new set of ridings for the 2015 election.So for kicks this summer, I'm looking…
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Judge blasts Ottawa police over search - Ottawa Citizen -http://goo.gl/knvlVStrauss-Kahn Lawyers and Prosecution Set Meeting to Discuss Dismissal or Plea…
While I often castigate Canada's Sun and Post Medias, not to mention the editorial board of the Globe, for their conservative bias there are few more yellow-toothed than those hacks…
Renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking has stated that climate change stands alongside the use of nuclear weapons as one of the greatest threats posed to the future of…
The whole column by Paul Robinson is worth a read but I was particularly struck by this part: When Peter MacKay is, as so often, praised for being popular with…
Fellow blogger Orwell recently wrote a post entitled The capacity for critical thought – how do we build it? In it, he was challenging readers to brainstorm ways in which…
