Amazon released their first tablet, called the Amazon Fire. I have been waiting for a long time for some company other than Apple to take some initiative and stop launching me-too products. Frankly, every tablet that is not an iPad is not worth buying. That is perhaps until now with this Amazon Fire. The tablet [...]
The Conservative-led federal government is once again looking to pass an updated copyright bill in Canada that will govern what Canadians can and cannot do with copyrighted music, videos, etc… It isn’t the first time they have tried to pass this bill, but it is the first time they have tried with their new majority, [...]
Last night we had the only Ontario election debate before the vote on October 6. It included the top three candidates: current Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal), Tim Hudak (Progressive Conservative) and Andrea Horwath (NDP). I didn’t expect to see the next Bill Clinton up there impressing everyone and I was certainly right in my low [...]
Apple announced that in one week from today, they will hold an event called “Let’s talk iPhone”. We all know what that means, a new iPhone. The venue is a bit of a surprise this time, being held at their Cupertino, California headquarters. Usually they like to hold such events at larger venues, not sure [...]
I recently watched Moneyball, a true story about baseball that took place in the early 2000′s. It stars Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, the General Manager of the Oakland A’s Major League Baseball team. Billy Beane decided to implement a revolutionary approach to making his team, which has a relatively tiny payroll a winner and [...]
Usually when we hear of the U.S. and Europe placing sanctions on some dictator-led country we often just roll our eyes and presume that it will not work. We have seen this happen many times in many places. North Korea is still led by a dictator, same with Iran and the same with Myanmar. However, [...]
In a recent NHL game, a banana was thrown on the ice by a fan as a racist gesture toward one of the players who is black. This may be an isolated incident by one idiot in the stands, but make no mistake there are a lot of hockey fans, at least in Canada that [...]
Every year the countries of the world gather at the UN headquarters in New York City. The leaders of each country gives a speech to the world about anything they wish. Hot topics often include tensions between certain countries, wars, famine, etc… Over the last few years, an important topic has been discussed a lot [...]
Yesterday, the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) announced that large Canadian telecommunications companies that also own other assets like TV broadcasters cannot make that content exclusive to their customers. They must offer their content to every competitor at a reasonable price. This rule specifically applies to companies like BCE Inc. (Bell), Rogers Communications Inc., [...]
In a recent article in the Toronto Star (click here to read it), a report came out that Saudi Arabia sent a letter to Canadian broadcaster CTV threatening legal action if it did not stop airing a particular ad that was booked on their network. The ad in question is by an organization called EthicalOil.org [...]
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