Canadians deserve better

James Laxer: The Liberals and the Road Not Taken

The Harper-Flaherty budget doesn’t do the job. New spending of about $6
billion this year and again next year, will create about 60,000 jobs.
It won’t make a dent in the rising tide of new joblessness that is
forecast to engulf Canadian communities from coast to coast. The layoff
notices are going out every day. The descent of our economy into
deflation is proceeding. Within a few months, the utter inadequacy of
the government’s policy will be evident to millions of Canadians.

Monument to the shoe thrower

Let Freedom Rain: New statue in Iraq honouring shoe thrower

Globe's "expose" questionable.

RedBedHead: Beyond Craven: The Globe's Gaza "Expose" <read me!

Every article about the school bombing that I could find, names the school al Fakhura - somehow the Globe came up with the name "Ibn Rushd Preparatory School for Boys". One wonders if the reporter was in the wrong place entirely.

More about the budget removal of funding for medical research in Canada

Hell, Upside Down: So Liberals Don't Support Stem Cell Research Eh?

While the Toronto Star regurgitates Liberal marketing saying "Liberals Put Tories on Probation" the headline in the Globe and Mail
today would indicate that the Liberals are either not watching Harper
closely enough or they agree with his anti-science idealogy. If not why
didn't they include funding stem cell research in their amendments:
...
The news spread like a virus through the research community yesterday
as the country's top scientists wondered whether the oversight was a
mistake. Genome Canada supports 33 major research projects in areas
such as genomics, agriculture and cancer stem cells with operating
grants of $10-million a year. The projects employ more than 2,000
people. By comparison, medical research grants from the federally
funded Canadian Institutes of Health Research run in the
$100,000-a-year range.

It also remains unclear how the budget
will affect the funding abilities of Ottawa's three government
research-granting agencies, including the CIHR.

Harper's budget removes medical research funding, thousands of jobs at risk

Peace, order and good government, eh?: Watching them "like hawks"

For the first time in nine years, Genome Canada, a
non-profit non-governmental funding organization, was not mentioned in
the federal budget and saw its annual cash injection from Ottawa -
$140-million last year - disappear.

Putting thousands of jobs at risk doesn't sound like good stimulus. And
pulling the rug out from under "some of the most promising medical
research" doesn't sound like policy calculated to make Canada stronger
coming out of the recession than it was going in.

Google to help fight against bittorrent throttling ISPs

Google Joins Fight Against BitTorrent Throttling ISPs | TorrentFreak

Hundreds of ISPs all over the world limit and restrict BitTorrent traffic on their networks. Unfortunately, most companies are not very open about their network management solutions. With a newly launched website, Google is now helping out by supporting applications that distinguish the good ISPs from the bad.

The Bacon Explosion

Bacon Explosion: The BBQ Sausage Recipe of all Recipes

... containing at least 5,000 calories and 500 grams of fat

Nom nom nom.