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I don’t have enough to really talk about on any single topic today for a blog post, so I’m going to write about a bunch of things in a single post. First, I can happily say that I’m writing this from my backyard.  It’s 30 degrees today in Edmonton, and barely a cloud on the [...]

For those of you living in Alberta, Bill 44 has become a very large issue.  It has the ability to limit classroom discussion about religion, sexuality, and homosexuality by requiring parents be notified before these topics are discussed in school as well as giving parents the ability to remove their children from the classroom if [...]

On this past holiday Monday, in an effort to keep my mind off of certain things that  happened to me over the weekend, I decided I was going to clean out the pantry, or food closet as we call it at my house.  Now, about 76 seconds after I started pulling things out, I thought [...]

For those of you who don’t know, I’m pretty much a Star Trek nut.  My dad was the one who got me into Star Trek when I was young, during the hey day of The Next Generation(TNG).  For years TNG was Star Trek to me.  I kind of watched Deep Space 9(DS9) but for many [...]

A couple of days ago, the public was made aware that the City of Edmonton was planning on having a unisex, or communal, change room at the new Queen Elizabeth outdoor pool.  This was something I had heard about almost a year ago.  The city believes that this is the way of the future, and [...]

Wired.com has an article about Last.fm making the site a pay site outside of the US, U.K. and Germany.  According to the article, last.fm is saying they do not gain enough advertising revenue from these countries to justify the cost of the service.  From now on, users outside of those 3 countries will have to [...]

This is the second part of my post/rant about the CRTC.  You can find part one here. In part one I briefly talked about the protectionism the CRTC takes with regards to Canadian content.  I want to talk a bit about how the CRTC handles TV, and how it is really limiting how Canadians can [...]

The title says it all doesn’t it?  the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission(CRTC) is broken, and needs to be fixed.  the problem is, is that I’m not sure if it can be.  For those of you who don’t know, the CRTC is the governing body of all radio, TV, telephone, cell phone, and internet traffic [...]

Yesterday Lynda Steele of Global TV Edmonton posted to Twitter asking for suggestions on how the media can effectively use Twitter, and asked for anyone to email her with suggestions to take to a newsroom meeting today.  This, along with the recent rush of Edmonton media flocking to Twitter really got me thinking about Twitter, [...]