Congratulations Canada, for being ranked in the top 20 by Reporters Without Borders in their annual World Press Freedom index. Canada rocked the competition, finishing just behind Hungary, Austria and New Zealand… no, wait, there was also Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Latvia, Switzerland. They also did better than Canada, but other than that we outshone. […] More »
Dom and Shayna — the pair of cross-country travellers filing reports from their road trip in search of community — have posted a final batch of photos and an entry entitled “In Celebration of New Beginnings” over on the Alternate Routes blog. An exerpt: “… the people with whom we choose to interact and exchange […] More »
First the bad news you already know, the mainstream media is an awfully concentrated place, with most of the stuff you watch owned by the same batch of people. Case in point, this chart and article done by U.S. lefty mag the Nation. Now, bad news you don’t know. Apparently emo-pop band Death Cab for […] More »
So my Dad just bought an RV. I have no idea what RV actually stands for, but I have a feeling it might be something like Roaming Village. As I write this my dad is driving back from Cincinnati in his new Death Star, but alot of other things are happening too: two major wars […] More »
“Canada’s emissions cannot be brought to the level required under the Kyoto Protocol.” Tough on crime, but apparently not tough on white collar crime. More »
Every single time I see an abandoned bike in Toronto I’ll think of this project that sends bikes to Rwanda. This week on the frontier of biofuels… The first biodiesel jet takes flight! What about using algae… to fuel the plane? Finally, can we turn some of those shipping containers into homes? More »
There’s lots of great links this week so let’s get to it. Shawn Micallef on the Spacing blog points out this article about the very high cost of parking. No, we don’t mean the $5 an hour you pay in Downtown Toronto or Vancouver. In other traffic related news, the Guardian has a bike blogger! […] More »
According to a Reuters report, Mozambique’s Catholic archbishop Francisco Chimoio has proclaimed that some condoms imported in Europe were deliberately exposed to HIV in order to kill Africans. Given the history of colonialism between Africa and Europe, suspicion may be understandable, but the religious leader’s assertion is patently absurd, as HIV is known to be […] More »
George W. Bush has made a lot of gaffes in his time as president but this one is mind-bogglingly bad. At a Thursday press conference W. blurted out this classic line… “I heard somebody say, Where’s Mandela?’ Well, Mandela’s dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas,” So in one fell swoop he had a […] More »
An ingenious solution to a common modern clothing problem, the missing sock. Make a toy dog! When you’re done, donate them to kids who’ll give them a home. You don’t even have to spay or neuter them. Ah the eternal battle of young vs. old captured on video. Atlantic Monthly writer Michael Hirschorn thinks there’s […] More »