I’ve been reading Ezra Levant. It’s not my fault, I was rather forcefully told his “ShakeDown” was a must read. I suppose it’s necessary to break one’s bias every once in a while and it turns out it wasn’t completely wasted effort. I won’t claim to have finished the thin, pocket-sized criticism of Human Rights/Commissions [...]
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Your rights and their limits
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Lawns are worse than useless
At the age of eight I mowed my first lawn and even then I realized what an absolute, despicable waste lawns are. For the last several years I have been living in apartments in the middle of a city, so the small amount of lawn care that was required was taken care of by the [...]
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Too many laws…
Harper’s Conservative Party, in line with his conservative ideology according to media outlets like the Globe and Mail, wants to curb the Supreme Court’s ability to significantly alter or amend legislation through interpretive rulings. See today’s Globe article on the status of Supreme Court interpretation. How would Harper significantly change the powers of the highest [...]
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A disaster looms on the internet horizon…
Google just pulled the Grooveshark app from the Android marketplace due to intense copyright scrutiny. Grooveshark, as I’ve written about before is a phenomenal cloud-based music-sharing application. According to Ars Technica and other news sources, Google has officially removed Grooveshark from their mobile Android application market. This is suspected to be caused in part by [...]
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