From The Real News Network : an excellent summary of the issues behind Steve's latest prorogation of democracy and how Canadians are pus...

THE GLOBE HAS AN INTERESTING TAKE on the Supreme Court's decision, and Stevie isn't gonna like it . . . according to Kirk Makin, In...

So, I'm flying home. No big deal. It's just that the "company" picked the wrong date to return me to the world. 29 January...

OH, WHAT A FEELING . Sometimes, though, even the "best" drop the ball.  Some 25 years ago, an engineer friend of my dad's had ...

While it may just be the latest shiny object to be dangled in front of the public to keep them distracted from Stephen Harper's prorogat...

KDVR DENVER has a report by John Romero that a Colorado neo-Nazi outfit, the National Socialist Movement , has done the adopt-a-highway thi...

IO9 has a fascinating report by Ed Grabianowski, on the latest discoveries concerning a mystery device, called the Antikythera mechanism: ...

Give a man a fish and he'll eat it, teach a man to fish....and he may starve to death waiting to get a bite. There has been a lot of asi...

ERIC CLAPTON is now shilling for T-Mobile and Fender. Eric, don't you have enough money, already? If you can't get a decent sound o...

During a private "fly-in" fishing excursion in the Alaskan wilderness, the chartered pilot and fishermen left a cooler and bait in...

Pix from me and West End Bob -click 'em to enlarge . Canwest : Thousands turn out for Vancouver rally to protest PM Harper's decisio...

Antonia Zerbisias in The Star : Canadians can win at numbers game "It was Woody Allen who said that 80 per cent of success is showing u...

Meet up on Georgia St. and march to Victory Square Bring a Canadian flag ! And cookies - I quite like cookies. Rallies at 63 other locations...

Vancouver's finest responded to a domestic dispute call by going to the wrong suite at 2am and beating the crap out of the guy who answ...

Amid Haiti's decent into Hell, we see our old friends Pat " Gays caused 9/11 " Robertson and Rush "Take the bone out of y...

HARPER'S MAGAZINE has a frightening report by Scott Horton, titled 'The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whis...

THE INTERNATIONAL FREE PRESS SOCIETY is a spin-off of the Danish Free Press Society. They took their name from the Society that was establi...

The Haitian government has signed a memorandum of understanding formally transferring control of the Port-au-Prince airport to the US. From ...

With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Sergeant John Faught, the 1st Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light In...

MICHAEL YON is an enterprising and intrepid reporter who has been out in Afghanistan for a number of years, covering that sorry situation t...