Newt Gingrich: Muslims are like Nazis and Communists
Gingrich made this comparison during the GOP debate on June 13th in New Hampshire. Muslim leaders are outraged. His campaign staff has already resigned. Where is this guy headed? He…
Internet Upgrade: Access to the Internet has been declared a fundamental human right
On June 7, 2011, the United Nations released a groundbreaking and exemplary report, which deems the Internet a universal human right. The Internet, the UN argues, has now become an…
Warrantless online surveillance will put too much power, at too high a cost, into the hands of Big Telecom
Written for The Globe And Mail Should telecom network companies and Internet service providers function as arms of law enforcement and national security? Yes, according to the Investigative Powers for…
NDP wakes up to hypocrisy of asbestos mining and export from Quebec
CBC is reporting through the Access to Information Act, that the Harper government rejected a 2006 recommendation from Health Canada to support a global ban on asbestos. Health Canada suggested…
Shades of Green: The Ecology of Wealth
If a healthy biological ecology provides for the well-being of its plants and animals, then a healthy human ecology should provide for the well-being of its constituent members. But human…
Why Are we Allowing the Media to Write the Narrative?
I've found myself getting upset the past few days reading columns about the Harper majority.There is an overwhelming attempt to rewrite Stephen Harper's political story.Angelo Persichilli tells us that yes…
The Ugly Truth About Shark Fin Soup
I was pleased to read in today's Star that two Toronto city councillors, Glenn De Baeremaeker and Kristyn Wong-Tam, are making a motion this week to ban the sale and…
Atmospheric Trust Litigation
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 Do the governments of the world have a legal duty to protect the atmosphere...
Good news—Gates says NATO faces dismal future
U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates is not amused by the lack of military esprit de corp among America's NATO allies. "The blunt reality," he lectured, "is that there will be…
A Founding Father Denounces Today’s Warfare State
Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of…
Game 7
It has been called riveting, strange, even nasty. The Vancouver Boston series has been one of the most interesting series I have ever watched. I won’t do any analysis, I…
Is The (anti)Smart Tax Alliance Push-Polling For The HST?
HeadsTheyWinTailsWeLoseVilleSo.According to J. Fowlie in the VSun, the consortium of business groups that have directly benefitted from the tax shift that is the HST and who have, to the best…
Democracy, dictators and Stephen Harper
Conservatives and their allies are busy keeping Brigette DePape in the news, in a variant of the Streisand Effect. The crescendo of tsk-tsking on the Right would have done Hester…
Does not get much sillier than this…
… aka, the xkcd wikipedia meme All right, it has been a while since last time I did this kind of stuff. I saw it at VWXYNOT? (where else, eh…
Crossing The Huffington Post Picket Line
The Diva doesn't know why it's a big deal that HuffPo has surpassed the NY Times in web traffic for the first time. http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/71-71/6265-crossing-the-huffington-post-picket-lineHuffPo has been declining ove...
Baboon and Bush Baby Bonding: Wonders of Nature
Nature has programmed or put software in all living beings for survival. If two humans share backgrounds they tend to bond and same goes for animals in many cases.In this…
He Died Like a Pilot
I think the world would be far better off if we demanded that every candidate for political office held a valid pilot licence. Why? Because time and again, pilots demonstrate…
A Rapture would have been just dandy for some…
Non Sequitur rox. And I have to wonder if there weren’t more than a few soft-minded folks out there who were hoping that the dire prediction would be borne true…