The Harper Government Is Writing Laws To Help Itself Yet Again

It appears the Harper Government is planning to dink with copyright law again. And true to Harper Government form, they’re doing so in the most self-serving arsehole fashion possible. The Conservative government is planning to change Canada’s copyright law to allow political parties to use content published and broadcast by news organizations for free in …

Stop It With the Grabby Grabby!

Something happened to me yesterday that I’ve probably written about in components before, but it all happened to me in one 10-minute interaction yesterday, so I thought I’d write about it. I got off the bus and started to walk. I got to the first intersection, and something seemed a wee bit off about my …

Criminal Activity Is Spreading Like A Virus These Days

A group of taxi robbers who probably thought they were making off with money or something else of value will get something for their efforts. But unfortunately for them, that something might just turn out to be a shiny new case of Ebola. Bandits in Guinea got more than they bargained for when they stopped …

Raphael Ravenscroft, The Baker Street Saxophone Guy, Dead At 60

In a post early this year, I casually wondered how the guy who played the sax solo on Baker Street was doing. Unfortunately, as of last month, the answer is he isn’t. He died of what is believed to have been a heart attack at the age of 60. But even though Baker Street only …