Thoughts on the world and the things in it.
Toronto needs to revamp it’s plastic bag policy. Right now the city charges $0.05 per plastic bag. The money is charged by the vendors (grocery stores) and presumably goes into the city’s coffers. The city however set the price too low. Five cents is not an inconvenience, it’s not even noticeable. …
If you are a rock band and you are going to sell out and let someone else use your song, this is the way to do it. This is a harsh, amazing, moving video. (@BradTTC)
Privacy in Canada is officially dead. The supreme court of Canada has granted police the power to enlist a power company in monitoring some one’s energy consumption without a warrant in an attempt combat grow-ops. “The Constitution does not cloak the home in an impenetrable veil of privacy,” Justice Marie …
Given all the hub-bub about the TSA and full body scanners recently I thought I might throw my hat in the ring too. Terrorism like everything else is a matter of numbers. According to Nationmaster.com Canada has the 4th highest deaths to terrorist act ratio in the world with 11.66 deaths/act. …
Steve Jobs hates freedom. You can see it in Apple’s iOS with it’s obfuscated coding, in the rigid and draconian application management, and now with it’s censorship. Yup, “There’s an app for that too!” PC magazine reported on Apple’s Anti-sexting Patent. Apparently teens send each other lewd messages on their …
Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei are not the only people responsible for the death of Tyler Clementi. There is of course Tyler himself, but also society at large. What kind of society do we live in where the shame of being “outed” is so traumatic that it would drive someone to kill …
Is it the season for crappy logos? Or is it just something with international sporting events. Check out this monstrosity for the Pan-am games being hosted in Toronto in 2015. Yes I get the “T” and the “O” for Toronto Ontario but damn, comic sans anyone? Seriously it just looks …
I’m having a tough time this year picking who I will vote for in the next election. All of the candidates suck. I mean really suck. Toronto’s biggest issue isn’t being elitists, or being hated by the rest of the country, it’s biggest issue is a lack of vision from …
I’m having a tough time this year picking who I will vote for in the next election. All of the candidates suck. I mean really suck. Toronto’s biggest issue isn’t being elitists, or being hated by the rest of the country, it’s biggest issue is a lack of vision from …
Blood donation is a topic I have written about numerous times: Nice Site, Hope he’s not gay Excuse me while I climb up on my soapbox Why Canada needs more common sense I’m writing about it again for two reasons. First is for one of my co-workers who had leukemia was …