In his current form, Matt Wozenilek is the exact kind of person the accessibility movement doesn’t need. I thought so when I first heard is name a few years ago, and I think so now. Have a look at the story and accompanying video here and see if you see what I see. What I …
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Don’t Be So Hard On The Natives. They Really Should Be Idle No More
This is a pretty powerful video. If you’ve seen the Idle No More coverage on the news or been held up by one of the protests and haven’t understood it or even worse, felt the need to shit on the damned Indians responsible, you need to watch it. It might not change you, but it’s …
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Via Rail Unmanned Stations: Guess Who Made A Decision Without Having A Plan
I mentioned this last week and then Carin followed up, and now there’s a news article about it. And as I feared, nobody over at Via or the government bothered thinking the unmanned train station plus person requiring help thing all the way through. The government, however, is quick to point out that none of …
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Via Rail Unmanned Stations Update
Steve’s Via Rail post from the other day got me thinking, and worried, and when that happens, I do what I always do…pick up the phone and bug the powers that be. Here’s how it went. The first lady I got was about half past useless. She told me she didn’t know for sure if …
The Court Of Appeal Wishes To Confirm That The Federal Government Is Fighting A Losing Battle
The results of the federal government’s ridiculous appeal of the lawsuit Donna Jodhan filed against it over the shameful state of accessibility on its websites have come in, and guess what? It’s Jodhan 2, Feds 0. A Toronto woman’s 2010 legal victory ordering Ottawa to make government websites accessible to the blind within 15 months …
A Few Thousand More Reasons To Abolish The Death Penalty
Just in case any of you still think the death penalty is a good idea, let me go ahead and make it a tiny bit harder for you to defend that position. More than 2,000 people have been freed from prison since 1989 after they were found to have been wrongly convicted of serious crimes, …
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The American Penny: Somehow Even More Useless Than The Canadian One
Now that Canada is finally canning this penny nonsense, could the States be far behind? On the surface one guy at one hardware store in Florida saying no more of these damn things doesn’t sound like much, but every great movement must start with one lone voice in the wilderness, or something like that. Andy …
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#TellVicEverything
I’m not sure who exactly came up with this protest, but you, my friend, are a friggin genius! You might remember my mentioning the Conservative government’s plan to introduce some pretty craptacular internet surveillance legislation. Well, in the last week or two, movement on what I like to call the Awful Access bill has really …
From The Makers Of SOPA And A Bunch Of Other Dicks, It’s ACTA!
One thing that’s been lost in all the talk about SOPA and PIPA and their dangers is that they aren’t the only pieces of poorly thought out and unimaginably damaging policy being hashed out by industry and world governments. If you’ve never heard of it, meet ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. It’s got all the …
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Internet Freedom 1, SOPA 0
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about SOPA here, but in that time it hasn’t left the news. People have kept up the fight, letting government and industry know at every turn that the bill isn’t good for America or the rest of the world. And today, government listened! In response to online petitions …
