Steve Harper’s new cabinet: ‘even larger and more inconsequential’
“The revelation that Stephen Harper has an ‘enemies’ list should come as no surprise,” John […]

We the people …
Earlier today I posted an item headlined :‘Treat Ed Snowden’s asylum claim fairly’coalition in which […]

‘Treat Ed Snowden’s asylum claim fairly’: coalition
A coalition of 19 groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation representing some 900,000 people, is […]

Astronaut nearly drowned — in space!
Luca Parmitano, Italy’s first spacewalker, apparently nearly drowned — while he was in the middle […]

Christine Stevens’ Lego leg
Wow! Just wow! When clinical occupational therapist Christine Stevens was changing the brakes on her […]

Canadian forces — who says you can’t turn back the clock?
Canadian defence minister Peter ‘Top Gun’ MacKay says the army will henceforth use the Maple […]

The world according to ‘Blue Coat’ — mapping global censorship and surveillance: Redux
Recently, Canada’s Citizen Lab once again led the way in pinpointing countries it said are […]

Emergency! Bees need help!
It’s an apparently innocuous term: colony collapse. But what it means is ‘Death to Bees’ […]

Slowing down, dammit!
Hi all: From this point on, there’ll be fewer posts than hitherto. I launched Dammit […]

Canadiana — to be privately owned?
According to the Ottawa Ctizen, Library and Archives Canada has brokered a secret deal with […]
