Feb 19 2008
| It has been interesting to read the comments being made in the run up to the Throne Speech from BC's government this week.
Feb 19 2008
| Canada is a nation of shared values. The awkward part of being Canadian is that those values are best defined not by what we do but what we <i>don't</i> do.
Feb 18 2008
| Lately, some Internet providers are taking the perverse position that they want to start inserting screens, filters, barriers and gates into the system. They want to start sniffing at that YouTube vi
Feb 15 2008
| Monday is Ontario's first Family Day. In Manitoba, they're calling the day off Louis Riel Day, which I think is a better idea.
Feb 14 2008
| Conservatives are road testing their election strategy: while Stephen Harper is a real leader, Stéphane Dion is not. Whether it is carrying out a combat role in Afghanistan, or getting tou
Feb 12 2008
| Real estate is eternal. "Poor naked wretches," King Lear called the market's losers. "How shall your houseless heads âe¦ defend you from seasons such as these?" Yes, I know, he'd just lost
Feb 11 2008
| Within the next year we'll be asked by instant message applications and by advertisers to allow our location to be discretely released in return for the benefit of hooking up with friends.
Feb 11 2008
| The past couple of weeks have been rocky on the stock market, but one company that hasn't been suffering too much is Taser International. At the end of January, its stock jumped by an impressive 8 pe
Feb 8 2008
| What's wrong with a separate Afrocentric or "black-focused" school in a public system — as the Toronto board recently approved? Well, no one should be reduced to a category.
Feb 7 2008
| If one person, one vote defines electoral democracy, what does one dollar, one vote define?
Feb 6 2008
| This week the Globe and Mail featured a web exclusive editorial titled "Our Afghan detainees deserve Charter protection." It argues that the protections of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms s
Feb 5 2008
| The departure of John Edwards — a brief shining, moment in American history all by his handsome, lonesome self — from the U.S. presidential race was a kick in the teeth. Or would have been
Feb 5 2008
| The Harper government's flagging campaign to sell Canadians on extending our combat mission in Afghanistan has clearly found new legs since the release last month of the pro-war Manley report.
Feb 4 2008
| Many newspapers think that having a pre-screened blog, a few awkward and television-aping videoclips or a couple of podcasts means they are in tune with social media.
Feb 4 2008
| Remember the "ownership society," fixture of major George W. Bush addresses for the first four years of his presidency? "We're creating...an ownership society in this country, where more Americans th
