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Fair Copyright For Canada

From Michael Geist, the 30 things you can do to help stop this bill in its tracks.

Day Of Silence – April 25, 2008

Subverting Democracy And How Not To Respond To The Media In A Crisis

Its never good for a government when the RCMP raids their party office. Last week when the RCMP and Elections Canada executed a search warrant on the Conservative Party’s office it became clear there was something to the allegations that the Conservatives had overspent on the last election by more than $1 million dollars.
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Not A Bad Night

I was following the by-election coverage on CTV Newsnet tonight and got so disgusted at how the pundits were shouting over each other and that annoying Conservative guy keep sniping I had to shut it off. There was all this talk about it being a bad night for Stephane Dion. I’m trying to figure [...]

Its Time To Come Home

By: trec_lit

I am troubled by the House of Commons voting to extend the “mission in Afghanistan” until 2011. When we first joined the US [...]

Authenticity – Calling Out Barak Obama

I had basically tuned out of the US Presidential election but being in the states for the last week I have been exposed to it in the newspapers and on TV. My curiosity has been piqued but the Clinton campaign calling out Obama on using another politician’s words in his speeches. At first I thought [...]

If I Haven’t Seen It, It’s New To Me

More videos from the “Behind The Music That Sucks” channel at Heavy.com

TV seems to be a total lost cause lately. There are only a few shows that I get interested in lately. CSI: NY, Family Guy, Criminal Minds are the only ones that come to mind. If these shows were available on iTunes in Canada [...]

The Trouble With Tories

What a crazy week in federal politics. It makes me nostalgic for my days as a trouble maker in the federal and provincial Liberal parties in the mid to late 80s in Ontario. Don’t get me wrong, I rolled up my sleeves and did a lot of hard work at the riding association level. It [...]

Live Nostalgia

Watching some of the Live Earth concert on the weekend brought back lots of memories of being at Live Aid in 1985. Especially when they were talking about Madonna playing there. I was just days away from turning 19 and a friend called an mentioned another friend of his was selling off the last two [...]

Hi I’m A Liberal Ads

Ok, so they are a blatent rip-off of the Mac ads, but I think the young Liberals have done a really good job!