The Supreme Court of the State of California passed a landmark ruling today... same sex couples will be given the legal right to marry... Now while I applaud this long overdue ruling, and on the surface this may seem to be a good thing, the conspiracy theorist in me (trust me, I know him well, that guy is a fruity nut bar with a chewy nougat center under a pointy tinfoil hat) is mighty suspicious of the timing... Hmmm... So gays in the most populous ...More »

When the minority government of Stephen Harper came to power it did so with the promise that transparency and accountability would be its cornerstones. Since that time, Harper’s government has taken various steps in the other direction, the most recent being the quiet dissolution of CAIRS - the Coordination of Access to Information Requests System. Instituted in 1989 as an internal mechanism with which to monitor requests and allow Canadian agencies to co-ordinate their responses to the release of sensitive information, it has also since been ...More »

One minute you’re eating your oatmeal, the next minute you’re not. One minute you’re walking down the street, the next minute you’re just another statistic that the world doesn’t want to hear about because there are already far too many statistics. In a letter to James Madison in early 1787, Thomas Jefferson wrote - “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.” Truer words were never spoken, ...More »

This entry is part 1 in a series of entries exploring monetary systems with regards to public knowledge and awareness in the United States and Canada, its origins and history, and present day status. What better place to begin than with a video from George Carlin, about the state of affairs today... More »

There are things that you see, and there are things that you do not. For example, we all know that our current government is rather friendly with the Bush Administration. What you might not know, for example, is that we signed an agreement with the United States that allows us, and them, to send troops across the border in the event of an emergency. The problem is, of course, that the United States does not allow foreign commands to direct the actions of their troops. ...More »