Technology

Tech in ’12: Apple may be in more trouble than we realize

December 31, 2011 · Leave a Comment

by Eric Pettifor First of all, I’m not going to predict the end of the world. I know, 2012 is the year that the Mayan long count calendar ends, on December 21st, to be exact, but somehow I doubt it will be terminal. Really, our best shot at near term extinction comes from science. But so far the scientists have failed utterly to destroy the world, despite spending billions of dollars on a massive super collider which was predicted to create a black hole which would swallow the earth. Do not let the light hearted musical approach in the following educational video fool you; this thing was... [Read the full story]

Culture

Joe Bodolai’s final hit

December 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment

A BoB short: A last blog post by Joe Bodolai has gone viral today after the L.A. Police ruled the well-loved comedy writer’s death a suicide. Bodolai, who worked on both “Saturday Night Live” and the “Kids in the Hall” before helping to launch Canada’s Comedy Channel, apparently intended the post as a combination suicide note and impromptu memoir. Titled “IF THIS WERE Y0UR LAST DAY ALIVE WHAT WOULD YOU DO?”, the long farewell includes Bodolai’s list of “Things I Regret”: Later he writes: “I wanted... [Read the full story]

Politics

War on Christmas? I hadn’t noticed.

December 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon Well I have to hand it to the Cons at Sun News, because if it wasn’t for them I’d never know that a brutal War on Christmas was raging. Although so far most of the reports flowing in from the front seem depressingly familiar. Mostly more scary Lezra and the endless War on David Suzuki. Although the hairy hoary windbag Charles Adler has done his best to escalate the situation: But I’m not worried about Santa. Because I understand he’s ready for ANYTHING… Even though the gun nutz at the National Rifle Association have betrayed him cruelly. Now... [Read the full story]

Features

Kevin Annett’s unfinished testament

May 5, 2011 · 4 Comments

By Frank Moher Kevin Annett lives in a small white house facing onto a plain street in downtown Nanaimo, BC. The local RCMP detachment, with its lot full of solid, square cop cars, is just around the corner. Inside, on a watery day in mid-January, the living room is lit only by the gray light spilling in through the front picture window. An unlit Christmas tree still occupies the centre of the room. Annett is as stripped down for efficiency as his home. Brisk but genial, he flicks on a light and sits, looking a bit mournful, for an interview. I ask him about the evidence for unmarked mass graves... [Read the full story]

Media

On Blatchford, Hitchens, and why babies suck

December 19, 2011 · 2 Comments

By Frank Moher One is impressed by just how credulous the reading public — that would be you — can be. You see what I just did there? I just insulted you. Conventional wisdom would suggest that insulting one’s readers is not the best way to start an article. But conventional wisdom is pretty stupid, too. It’s called “contrarianism,” and it’s what Christie Blatchford and Christopher Hitchens practise and practised, respectively, to a tee. And, as they know and knew, it’s good journalistic business, not least because readers will fall for it every time. These... [Read the full story]

The G20

G20: The morons who came in from the cold

November 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside The JIG is up. An RCMP “joint intelligence group” — comprised of federal, provincial and municipal police — infiltrated activist groups prior to the G20 and Vancouver Olympics in what they call ”one of the largest domestic intelligence operations in Canadian history.” Constable Bindo Showan of the Ontario Provincial Police, one of the two principal undercover Ontario spies, is a stunning example of their intelligence at work. Earlier this fall, Showan told the court about how he attended a... [Read the full story]