Naked Culture: On Canada's First Homegrown Porn Channel

The media has been mulling over a recent CRTC decision made early this week over Canada's first homegrown pornography channel. The channel will be known as Northern Peaks, and is based out of Edmonton. The CRTC was originally created by the Trudeau government as a federal tool for maintaining Canadian culture. For the most part, this has involved and...

read more...

Liquid Smokes: Bottled Water the new Cigarettes?

Back in the 1990s, someone got the idea to take a product we get for almost free out of our taps and then packaged it for sale on grocery shelves. The water was significantly more expensive than tap water but it was great in a pinch when you were on the go and needed a swish of the elixir of life. We bought into it, big time. I've been drinking it...

read more...

Tales of a Missing Mayor & Musings on Sunrise

On August 10th, Toronto suffered its worst disaster since the SARS outbreak back in 2003. The Sunrise Propane facility located on Murray road just south of CFB Downsview exploded, killing two people and forcing thousands out of their homes. Nearly two weeks later and some people still are not allowed back. Toronto fire and police did an admirable job...

read more...

China: It's Ok to Hold Olympic Protests, As Long as It's in the Gulag

This story both angers and delights me at the same time. It angers me because of how disgraceful it is that the Chinese government is abusing its people despite promises not to. It delights me because it has definitively proved the people who opposed an Olympic boycott wrong. During the Olympics, the Chinese government set up special "protest areas"...

read more...

There is an Advisory Board for Judges?!

About a year ago, I wrote an article about the how judges were granting bail inappropriately. That is, letting dangerous repeat offenders out on bail. One of my suggestions was to create an independent judicial advisory board run by civilians to handle cases in which a judge made an inappropriate ruling. I feel a little embarrassed now because apparently...

read more...