Along Grosvenor and Fleet these changes to the curbs have just started showing up and people are confused as to why a road system thats worked for 100 yrs needs to be changed. It’s to ruin the r …

This was a hate crime pure and simple! Des Moines Police Chief Judy Bradshaw reassigned her department’s spokeswoman Thursday, two weeks after Sgt. Lori Lavorato said it was “very possible …

The ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States should serve as a moment to reflect on tolerance. It should be a day of peace. Yet the rising anti-Muslim fervour here, together …

Since Canada is officially a bilingual country, a great deal of effort and expense has been put into ensuring that as many federal government employees as possible are bilingual. There is a particular …

Is the fall TV line-up the most eagerly anticipated event in your household every year? Ya….us too…. Remember when it actually was a bit of an event though? When the September Preview Edit …

Here's one from the archives (Friday, December 4, 2009) for no particular reason – except that I happened to be talking about it earlier today …Google Street View. This may be old hat for a lot …

As some of you already know, I'm a bit of a shutterbug. Well, a very little bit – still, I have entered a few online contests – although apparently the judges and voting public are not yet quite …

With great power parenting comes great responsibility. (Thanks Spidey. I always knew that quote would come in handy one day.) We are responsible for the safety and well being of our offspring and it …

Every once in a while I am sitting alone in the quiet of my house and I flashback to when I was nineteen and stupid and let myself be convinced to eat the worm out of a really bad bottle of tequila fo …

Back when I was living in Kenora, Ontario in the spring of 2007, I was looking for new ways to make money online, and I explored writing articles on spec. When I changed hats and became a ‘web w …

Business people with bottom lines are tired of web marketing mantras, brand-building baloney, and self congratulatory praise for a fledgling industry by its most unqualified evangelists. Smojoe’ …

So, I walked into The Office of O.W, Toad Ltd., where the usually smiling staff (two in number) who attempt to run my life with whips of steel were giving me the frowny treatment. “You’ve been signing …

So, up we went to Yellowknife (Northwest Territories, Canada), Graeme Gibson and self, en route to Kugluktuk, where we were supposed to join the Clipper Adventurer (ship) and Adventure Canada (group) …

That was a nice little love story at Fairview on Saturday, and a class act at both ends of the equation. It says a lot about Jaroslav Halak's character that he came back to Montreal to raise mone …

When Lloyd's of London refused to insure Bobby Orr's knee in the mid-1970s, I can recall thinking how odd it was that someone would try to insure a body part. The Boston Bruins had a lot rid …

So, please, please, please be careful on your streets and roads! The little ones may not yet know the “rules of the road” so it up to the rest of us to ensure that the first day of school …

Parents and students – be warned. The Amalgamated Transit Union is saying that there will be problems next week when everyone returns to classes. I’d take the warning seriously and plan ac …

Thousands in BC lack the full time, decent paying jobs they seek. Walk a mile on their treadmill.

Tight provincial spending plus a deficit of at least $13.5 million equal anger, accusations and a tense wait for the auditor's verdict.

part one is here. so, my two day Ph.D orientation was September 1st and 2nd. yesterday. the day before. i was not there. i’d been joking for awhile about the campus tour part of the orientation, …

i walked out of the hospital today feeling almost – though not quite – as surreal as i had when i stumbled in two days ago. almost as surreal, because no matter how flattering, 38 year old …

"They talk about me like a dog", Obama 2010; "Stone Free", Jimi Hendrix 1967.I knew there was something cool about Obama.

If you're a Liberal – hell, if you're a progressive – you have to love the new tact the Liberals are taking. By pushing back and not taking it anymore, the reshuffled Lib shadow cabinet now …

I understand the thesis that voters aren't particularly impressed with any of the federal options, but the latest NANOS poll is NOT bad news from the Liberal perspective. First, the national numb …

Last week, some questioned the wisdom of the Liberals "wedge" play on the gun registry. The older polls were cited by commentators, to argue that there was no real upside from the Liberal pe …

It's really too bad this notion and action has taken so long to arrive. [...] the 58-year-old minister proclaimed in July that he would stage "International Burn a Quran Day". Supporter …

Whatever your political orientations/choices may be, there's some interesting information to be found in the article about Sarah Palin in the October issue of Vanity Fair, now online.She manages …

I posted yesterday on the updated Internet chapter in the latest version of ACTA, which features a major change on secondary liability and the U.S. attempt to clawback on recent domestic DMCA changes …

The Governor-in-Council has ordered an Investment Canada Act section 15 review of Apple Canada's iBookstore. The review of the cultural investment may help explain the delay in the full launch of …