Archive for April, 2005

Shaw is in the phone business

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

I’m frankly a little surprised it took this long, but the Edmonton Sun reports that Shaw Cablesystems has finally expanded its cable offering to include telephone service — in Edmonton only. Their serivce uses a technology called VOIP which, if you haven’t heard of it yet, you’re going to hear a lot about as time [...]

Curious humanitarian effort

Friday, April 22nd, 2005

Vibrators for Iraq

Dictating when a business can close

Thursday, April 21st, 2005

There is certainly a lot that can be said regarding the closure of this unionized Wal-Mart store in Québec, and today I started thinking about what it means to demand that a business — any business — must keep a store open. Shouldn’t an owner have the freedom to close up shop for any reason [...]

Welcome Jessica

Monday, April 18th, 2005

Welcome to the blogosphere Jessica

Pandering to special interests

Friday, April 15th, 2005

Alright! Forget STV. Forget political parties that represent a platform of issues. Why don’t we just have political parties that represent specific issues. First it was the BC Marijuana Party working hard to… uhhh… create urban jobs in agriculture I think. I’m just kidding. At least their leader has taken his role seriously enough to [...]

No more all-nighters

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

That’s it! Tomorrow is the last day of regular classes, and then freedom!… for a couple days anyway. I’m going to take 2 political science classes in the first section of summer semester, so I’ll only have about a week before classes start again. Taking classes only in the first section of summer will give [...]

RSS Test

Monday, April 11th, 2005

I’m just testing RSS feeds at Yahoo!.

Fair trial

Monday, April 4th, 2005

You call that a fair trial -eh? At least some people understand the concept of jury contamination.

Me and Mr. Martin

Friday, April 1st, 2005

Update: My good friend assumed I photoshopped the image, but I have to say that it’s 100% authentic; looking at it again I can see why she would. TRU has a press release that verifies that the PM visited the school today, but all I can give is my solemn word that that is [...]