the woodshed

I mentioned in an earlier post that for the amount of money being spent on the G8/G20 meetings just for security, the government could build...

The latest edition of the Maple Syrup Revolution - in which Canadian Cynic's Lindsay Stewart returns to discuss copyright, lying Conse...

I'm all for giving people the benefit of the doubt. We all forget things we've said or done once in a while, and hey, maybe Jason Ke...

For years, we've known that Stephen Harper is a control freak who insists that every utterance of everyone speaking for the government b...

It is tragic that we have fallen so far.

I know I've been a lazy blogger lately, and aside from obsessively watching Bill Mason movies, learning how to make podcasts and search...

David over at JimDandy Goodness has a fine selection of homecoming presents from the NFB assembled for me and I haven't even started pa...

As usual, the Rude Pundit nails it -- what we need here is Godzilla! Maybe if a giant fire-breathing lizard was in charge of dealing wi...

There may be a light at the end of the tunnel for journalism, and Google may be paying the electric bill for it, according to this excellent...

In a discussion of dumbassery re: the Kagan nomination, Roy Edroso sums up Meagan McArdle.

The Divine Ms. Z has a great piece in today's Toronto Star - an interview with Marci McDonald , author of the just-released The Armagedd...

Most of the news out of Afghanistan is depressing and occasionally enraging, but when I see Seymour Hersh's byline attached to a story,...

Read this story on the rise of the religious right in Canada and don't get scared, get angry. Then get busy and stop this tiny minority...

Too much time on my hands? What makes you think that?

This week's guest John Baglow aka Dr. Dawg (left) with returned Canadian exile Abousfian Abdelrazik. Subscribe at iTunes or click bel...

Golden week is sort of like the Japanese version of Spring Break - so I'll up north visiting the in-laws for a bit. In the meantime - en...

A lot of stuff has been written about the role of so-called virtual communities on the internet and their role in our new technology-enhance...

Louise Arbour , former Canadian Supreme Court Justice,  Chief Prosecutor of the  International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavi...