Add this to the list of enduring human ironies. The world’s poor, who bear little responsibility for global warming on account of not being able to access electricity or internal combustion engines, will be most seriously affected by climate change. And the negative impacts won’t be coming someday. Try Friday. All of these cheery conclusions [...]
Hamlet got it right when he said, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy”. Good advice. My name isn’t Horatio, but he might as well be talking to me. Last week, I blogged on a new study suggesting the ‘pancaking’ collapse of the WTC towers was [...]
Last week I blogged about a semi-secret consultation by Public Safety Canada on Internet Service Providers and lawful access. In other words, PSC was looking at ways of compelling ISPs to disclose their users’ names, addresses and other identifiers to law enforcement. The blogosphere was quick to point out this idea is completely stupid, as is a ‘consultation’ that excludes numerous [...]
French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner believes France should prepare for war if Iran acquires nuclear weapons. Kouchner made the comments during an interview with RTL radio and LCI Television. Said Kouchner: “We must prepare for the worst….The worst, sir, is war. We are preparing ourselves by trying to put together plans that are the chiefs of [...]
No longer will China use big, fuzzy ambasadors to improve their admittedly shaky international reputation. The practice of panda PR is at least 1,300 years old, beginning in the Tang dynasty when two pandas were sent to a Japanese princess. And who could forget Hsing Hsing and Ling Ling, given to Richard Nixon at the [...]
Michael Geist’s blog is reporting that Public Safety Canada has launched a semi-private consultation on whether Internet Service Providers should be required to submit the names and addresses of their users to law enforcement. Geist refers to this isse it by its legal name- lawful access- while the nice folks at Boing Boing call it by the [...]
Toronto continues its long slide into public transit ignominy in the wake of yet another TTC fare hike. The new cash price for a ride on our fair city’s decrepit mass transit vehicles will be $2.90, and a one month metro pass should come in at around $103.75. Another brilliant move by the visionaries running [...]