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Good news for free speech supporters in Canada:
The media should not live in constant fear of facing a libel suit every time a provocative commentary is published or broadcast, the Supreme Court of Canada said yesterday in a major ruling won by controversial Vancouver radio broadcaster Rafe Mair.
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On the face of it this just seems like a very, very dumb idea. Don’t these people read the papers (or even trade mags for Christ’s sake)? Even Hellman’s has figured out that food security is one of the fastest growing concerns people have. I thought BC was supposed to be a thought leader in [...]
I once met a guy who told me he was comfortable with one-night stands so long as they didn’t involve interlocking fingers at any point during or after sex. As he explained, “finger interlocking is a sign of great intimacy and love” and he couldn’t handle that. What a [...]
Raif Mair is lending his voice to a group that is opposed to the privatization of BC power and ultimately water. Listening to the debate I can’t help think he’s right to be steamed. This seems like an extremely dumb idea. You can hear more about it on the SaveOurRivers.ca:
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For anyone who has been paying attention, the perils of peak oil have been obvious for some time now. But if you think you’re getting pinched at the pump imagine what it must be like to fuel up a 747? Yeah, it’s not cheap. And now with oil prices at record levels, some are beginning [...]
Leonard Brody, founder of NowPublic, rejects the term ” target=”_blank”citizen journalism,” which has often been applied to his business. “What [our contributors] do is not journalism. We don’t call it that and never have.” In spite of that, he did construct NowPublic to serve as a new kind [...]
Ars Technica does a great job of looking into Bell Canada’s defence of its throttling policies. Bell is now claiming that in spite of appearances, that congestion levels on its networks are high.
The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is currently investigating Bell’s system, which cap throttles P2P downloads at around [...]
A big weekend in Point Grey last week featured the Premiere, the outgoing Mayor and a handful of other dignitaries. Lots of stuff for the kids including everything sugar coated and spinning machines of various dimensions.
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I got frustrated tonight because I was trying to check out some hiking trails using Google Earth and the high res images weren’t loading like they usually do. Ordinarily I would suspect it was just my wifi connection or some random event in the stratosphere that thwarted my efforts. But with all the talk these [...]
This week’s article in the Sun about a proposed speculator tax is truly odd. The piece begins:
The Lower Mainland housing market might be cooling off these days. But glittering highrise condos continue to sprout up across downtown Vancouver.
Given the region’s housing crunch, one would assume that locals would quickly snapping up [...]
