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An Appeal to My Fellow Voters in the High Park/Parkdale Riding

I do so love it when I can repurpose a picture!Yes, it's time to unseat Sarmite "Sam" Bulte, who's in…

19 years ago

Oh, NOW He Promises to Drop the Fee

Barely hours after we paid the immigration processing fee of CDN$975 (US$847 at today's rates), Prime Minister Paul Martin announces…

19 years ago

Murder By Numbers, Part One

In the comments to the entry titled The Boxing Day Shooting, an anonymous commenter pointed me to a Globe and…

19 years ago

Chanukah, Night Seven: Remixing Gangsta Culture

The dirtbags behind the shirt pictured on the left have borrowed the slogan "Stop Snitchin'" from the movie of the…

19 years ago

Chris Turner on Christiania’s Fate

Christiania (here's its Wikipedia entry), the sort-of-self-governing neighbourhood located in Copenhagen, Denmark is one of those places I'd been meaning…

19 years ago

Accordion Guy Advent Calendar, Day Eleven: Richard Pryor and Chevy Chase’s "Word Association" Skit from Saturday Night Live

If you were a friend of mine in the 1980s, there would come a time when I'd tell this joke:…

19 years ago

Which Canadian Election Candidate Matches You?

Joi Ito, in his IRC channel, #joiito, pointed to this CBC test that attempts to determine which Canadian federal election…

19 years ago

16 Years Ago

16 years ago, when I was a 22-year-old student at Queen's University studying electrical engineering (computer option), Marc Lepine (nee…

19 years ago

Accordion Guy Advent Calendar, Day Five: Extreme Political Comics!

Welcome to Day Five of the Accordion Guy Advent Calendar. Today's goodie: comics! First, let's take a look at a…

19 years ago

"Tucows Milking the Internet"

Here's an article which ran in last Thursday's Financial Post: Tucows Milking the Internet, which is subtitled "Now it just…

19 years ago