There are plenty of folk who use blogs - imagine - to blindly criticize our fair land, saying it is a shame that we do not have standing armed forces of 250,000 to rattle our swords now and then, saying it is a shame that we are taxed for sensible public services looking with envy southward where …

One of the more attractive reasons for Canadians considering a move to the US for personal avarice may soon be disappearing according to the New York Times:  •  “There are no cows more sacred in the tax code than the deductions for mortgage interest and property taxes. Together, they add up to at …

So much for the new world of tech-media. Somebody finally asked an obvious question and got an obvious answer:  •  “The belief that the Internet is pushing aside traditional media as a source of news and information may be mistaken, according to a new study profiling online Canadians. The study …

Now the world makes sense again. My Red Sox have decided to start their self-destruction. Epstein, shown in a happier time in this susinct Getty photo, is gone as I feared. Here is the report from the team's own site:  •  “In a move that sent a Halloween night jolt across Red Sox Nation, Theo …

Interesting to read that my old pal from Halifax days, Kelly Ryan, is reviving her radio host career started twenty years ago when she did CBC Halifax's weekend wake-up show. Once I goaded her into referring her co-host as "L-7" and "four corners" based on the Flinstone's beat poet episode of …

Nominations are open for the 2005 Canadian Blogging Awards and so far A Good Beer Blog is nominated for Best Blog, Best Group Blog and Best Culture Blog. Sure I was the nominator and co-nominee with Knut, Blork, Ale Fan and the other writers but does that really matter? Are we not worthy? [Ed.: We …

“Hey kids! Gather 'round the radio. The Prime Minister is going to talk to us!”  •  This is the oddest reaction to a disinterested population that I can think of: the PM is going to speak to us every week through an address being picked up by private radio stations. Lord knows Canadians love being …

I have to check if this is actually in the Supreme Court's notice of leave to appeal in a certain case issued this morning but the Lang Michener Supreme Court of Canada L@wLetter says this:  •  “David Couture was convicted of murder in 1986. His wife, Darlene Couture met him in prison on other …

NPR is reporting Meirs has withdrawn her nomination for the US Supreme Court but it is not on CNN or any Google news. Has radio wons this race?