Dec 27, 2002
The CBC has an interesting article about the use of the word mulatto in the media. The article, which goes on to tackle other words with shady and not-so-shady pasts, is in response to a letter the CBC received after its use of mulatto in Read more
Dec 27, 2002
Metro Morning, the CBC‘s Toronto morning show, had a piece about British singer and songwriter Billy Bragg on today’s show. Bragg has had a track out called Price of Oil for the past month or so, a song which Errol Nazareth claims is one of the first to speak out against the … Read more
Dec 23, 2002
“Everybody knows that that if [the United States] had concrete information, they would have put it on television all around the world before giving it to the inspection teams.”
I have found myself making this same argument over the past few days, in response to Hans Blix’s request … Read more
Dec 22, 2002
Canada NewsWire is reporting that, according to the Maclean’s 19th Annual Year-End Poll, 44% of Canadians would restrict Canada’s intake of Muslim immigrants. This disturbing statistic was part of a summary of the poll findings, which also stated that 60% [of Canadians] would … Read more
Dec 19, 2002
Bill Kearney has slapped together a page which helps construct a link to a Yahoo! Group’s RSS feed. The links it creates can be understood by several popular aggregators. I didn’t even know that Yahoo! Groups supported RSS.