Category: politics
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Attention politicians: we’re electioned out.
This has definitely been a year. Earlier this year, several municipalities held their own elections–including the Ottawa area. Then, not long after that wrapped up, the federal election. Which, it should probably be pointed out, was pretty much being squared off for during the municipal ones. And now, for the … Read the rest
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An update on the TSA’s fight with Texas. Could there be a round 2?
Remember when Texas tried to make the TSA’s pat-downs illegal, and the TSA responded by threatening to yank all flights out of Texas in response? Yeah, sure you do. Well, there’s talk about there possibly beiing a way for that bill to reemerge again this year, thanks largely to the … Read the rest
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Canada’s democratic process not democratic enough for Brigette DePape. Or the PSAC, apparently.
On May second, Canada went through its most recent election. Canada’s conservative party, which despite popular belief up here is far less conservative than the US conservative party, was elected to government. Fairly, insofar as a system can be fair without offending Quebec, elected in a majority of communities across … Read the rest
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Your attention please. Coffee and pickles can give you cancer. Oh yeah–your cell phone, too.
So a new World Health Organization (WHO) study came out earlier this week potentially classifying your cell phone as a class 2B carcinogen. In other words, possibly carcinogenic. In simpler terms, potentially cancer-inducing. Yay. Go World Health Organization. In response to this, the 80 millionth study declaring such things (soon … Read the rest
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European politicians join the wi-fi is evil camp. Go Europe!
I may or may not have made reference before to folks who get it in their heads that wi-fi has this issue wherein it’s exceedingly damaging in some way, shape or form. I may or may not have indicated that camp gets its ideas from the most ridiculous of sources–like, … Read the rest
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Michael Ignatieff should really not be this amusing to mock.
Ah, Canada’s newest leader of the liberal party. always good for a rousing speech. A well-placed pep-talk to the masses. A tiny bit of amusement. Okay, so maybe he wasn’t aiming at that with this last appearance. For a little context, the below video is of a speech he gave … Read the rest
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Hey look, it’s another election! yippy!
I have a thing for politics. Call it a hidden streak of sadism. Whichever. I’ve kept a relatively close eye on it since highschool. which, quite surprisingly, meant I got to play witness to nearly an average of one election every two years since shortly after I got out of … Read the rest
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Glen Beck just needs to retire. Now Google’s a government conspiracy.
Until recently, I always thought Glen Beck was just old and loopy. More loopy than old. Now, I’m convinced the man’s old, loopy and maybe a little senile. He’s decided, according to Slashdot, that while research is perfectly okay, research on Google is all kinds of evil. According to the … Read the rest
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Senator Joe Lieberman gets flipped off by the Canadian government. Again.
The US department of homeland security must really think us canucks are some bunch of evil. Every so often, somebody from that wing of the US government will float the several times over debunked myth that the Canada/US border is actually a weak point re: US security–hence why the 9/11 … Read the rest
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A year later, Quebec still hasn’t let go of the olympics.
After the opening festivities of the olympics last year, my take on which can be found in its asociated category, the Quebec language police were up in arms because almost no french was actually used in the event. Neverminding the fact that if it had been, it would have … Read the rest