And so begins the post-Olympic event you’ve been waiting for, when the nation sends out its best, it’s finest, its most eloquent pundits to gripe about our medal count — and demand more money to wring a few more laurels from the next Games.”You don’t get to the podium for peanuts,” reads one Globe and Mail headline. (Regrettably, it’s disqualified from competition for jumping the gun; the Globe… Read more...

The news that U.S. department store giant Target has its beady little eyes on our beloved Hudson’s Bay Company has many Canadians agitated, and rightly so. As one shocked and appalled patriot points out in a letter to the Globe and Mail, “The Bay is our greed-driven, me-first, ecologically uncaring corporation… Let’s go against Canadian ideals here and at least try to survive among the fittest, eh?”This reminded… Read more...

It’s notoriously hard to get a Canadian election overturned. Damn near impossible, in fact… but Dick Proctor and Moe Kovatch may be about to do just that.It seems a few hundred voters in the riding Regina-Lumsden-Lake Centre (hopefully to be renamed “Rumsdentre” for the sake of brevity) may have been told to vote in the riding of Palliser. Given that the people telling them were Elections Canada, the… Read more...

In the list of my favourite come-on lines for weird-ass activities, this one has just zoomed into first place:”Have you ever dreamed of being carried into the sky by a giant bouquet of colorful toy balloons?”It’s called cluster ballooning. Here’s the gist of it:

The pilot wears a harness, to which a cluster of large, helium-filled balloons are attached.† Control is achieved by releasing ballast to ascend, or by… Read more...

Whenever I start thinking that the only things technology really does well area) entertain people,b) separate people from their money, andc) inform people about itself,someone kindly remind me about Martus. To quote from the web site, “Martus is a software tool that allows users to document incidents of [human rights] abuse by creating bulletins, uploading them at the earliest opportunity, and storing them on redundant servers located around… Read more...