Big3news.net reports on a Scarborough, ON man that claims to have witnessed a UFO  morphing into several different shapes right before his  eyes  on Sept. 17, 2009.  This follows a record year for UFO sightings in Canada, with 2008 seeing over 1000 reported incidents. The witness, Paul Shishis, says he saw the thing appear not […]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOt2Qp0H9G8[/youtube] Well, so much for not attending elite galas.  A surprisingly not bad performance.

Canadian founders of the Church of the Universe, Brother Michael Baldasaro and Brother Walter Tucker, have been marijuana legalization activists for several decades and have many high profile battles with the courts over man’s inalienable right to smoke up and get toasty. Unfortunately as anyone who follows legalization politics in Canada knows all too well, such efforts so […]

Canadian Industry Minister Jim Prentice is still trying to import American-style copyright law similar to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The massive failings of the DMCA have been reported widely, and it seems pretty clear that any similar legislation does not benefit anyone outside of the recording and movie industries. Michael Geist has written a […]

Canadian comedian Rick Mercer’s show ‘Talking to Americans’ occasionally has some good segments. I didn’t catch this when it aired, or maybe forgot about it, but am glad it came to my attention again. Certainly, its more relevant after the Iowa results. The show involves Mercer interviewing Americans and exposing ignorance of Canada, Canadians, and […]

The site CommitteeCaller.com was blogged recently at Boing Boing: CommitteeCaller: phone an entire Congressional committee with one click. I’m already making notes to check out the open source PBX system, Asterix PBX mentioned in the post. Beyond my general hacker’s interest in the technology, the application is very interesting. How long will something like this […]

Glorious leader Stephane Dion has responded to recent criticism of lack of input from French Canada by appointing a new Quebec lieutenant. But the first two MPs asked, Denis Coderre and Pablo Rodriguez, turned it down, so it went to a Senator. A Senator? Don’t you only use those deadwood (what’s the plural of deadwood? […]

As a follow up to Brother Greg’s post on the border security broohaha: globeandmail.com: Porous border offers terrorists easy route into U.S., Congress told “With the exception of the U.S., there are more international terrorist organizations active in Canada than anywhere else in the world,” Senator Ken Salazar, a Colorado Democrat, said after hearing how […]

Those wacky Americans are coming across our borders just to try to sneak back into their own country.According to the titans of journalism at CNN it’s very easy to sneak across the longest undefended border in the world. Apparently there are 6.3 Estados Unidos border gaurds/mile along the Mexican frontier (so how the hell do […]