Maglia rosa is Italian for pink jersey and is the award given to the cyclist with the lowest overall time in the Giro d'Italia bike race.  Ryder won the jersey on May 12 and kept it for three days as his Garmin-Barracuda team did a stellar job of defending the title. … Read full post »

The Canadian Conservative government recently tabled the proposed 2012 budget.

I say "tabled" and "proposed" because in our system of government, the budget will be passed as introduced due to the ruling party having a majority of seats in Parliament.  Among the changes mentioned is one that I d… Read full post »

Limited liability for corporations creates an entity that behaves pathologically - without regard to anyone/anything outside of itself.

That's why I created a petition to The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama, which says:

"Ending limited liabil… Read full post »

It's time to end limited liability for corporations.

When limited liability for corporations was created, governments had reasons.  Capital was hard to obtain.  There had been many frauds where investors in a corporation lost all of their investment - in most cases they had no clue as to ho… Read full post »

Broadway - City Hall station - courtesy Translink's The Buzzer blog

I saw a violinist busking outside a Skytrain station today - he'd put a pickup on to amplify it so as not to be drowned out by the traffic.  As I came out of… Read full post »

Hamid Ghassemi-Shall is a Toronto shoe salesman who emigrated to Canada from Iran  after the 1979 revolution.  He became a citizen and has returned to visit family members several times without incident.

On a visit to his mother in May 2008, he was arrested, charged with espionage, and sen… Read full post »

In the late 70s/early 80s I was driving a wrecker for Tritow, who at that time had the Vancouver city towing contract. I was working night shift, which went into the wee morning hours. I had been doing work on the east side of the city, and chose… Read full post »

Christopher Evans' wound - courtesy of  Pivot Legal Society, Straight.com and Vancouver Free Press

Wound is healing - courtesy of Rafal Gerszak and The Globe and Mail

Christopher Evans is a 33 year old Vancouver area construction worker and skateboarder.  L… Read full post »

Although the statutory corporate tax rate in the US is 35%, very few corporations pay this rate. A story from MSN Money quoting a Business Week story says that CMS Energy, Chesapeake Energy, Boeing, Broadcom, FPL Group, Allegheny Energy, Citizens Communications, American Capital Strategies, Akamai T… Read full post »

Within the last two months both Dick Cheney and George W. Bush have visited the Vancouver area.  Despite requests from protestors, Lawyers Against War, Amnesty International, the Canadian Centre for International Justice, Human Rights Watch, and others, neither the Vancouver Police Department no… Read full post »

By Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun June 3, 2011

U.S. used 'unmitigated gall' and B.C. court to jail exec

The giant computer company Cisco and U.S. prosecutors deceived Canadian authorities and courts in a massive abuse of process to have a former executive thrown in jail, says a B.C.… Read full post »

UPDATED - see below.

Car2go GmbH is a car rental company that offers short term rentals of Smart Fortwo cars.  It currently operates in Vancouver, BC, Canada; San Diego CA, and Austin, TX, USA; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Lyon, France; and Hamburg and Ulm, Germany.  It's owned by Daimler AG (… Read full post »

Kathryn Marshall,  Leo Knight, and Erica Bulman - Occupy Vancouver and the other Occupy movements around the world are a waste of time and money.  Let's shut them down so we can use the cash more effectively like for tax cuts to business.

And there are other ways… Read full post »

Canada's Supreme Court decided today to ignore ideology and listen to scientific evidence that proved lives were being saved.  In a unanimous decision, they ordered the federal minister of health (currently Leona Aglukkaq) to grant an immediate exemption to the Criminal Code of Canada to allow… Read full post »

If you take a trip to Tsawwassen, BC (a community in Delta, BC) you will come to one of only five non-island and non-contiguous parts of the US in the lower 48 - Point Roberts.

A geographical oddity created by the Oregon Treaty in 1846, the Point (as it's nicknamed), is almost… Read full post »

I'm working on the 17th floor of an office tower in Burnaby, B.C., and we swayed for at least 15 seconds - it made all of us here slightly woozy.  CKWX 1130 news radio is reporting it as a 6.7 magnitude off the coast of Vancouver Island. The U.S. Geological Survey… Read full post »

The other day The Nation published an article by Peter Rothberg titled "Top Ten Labor Day Songs".  Their list is below my argument that  they missed the best labour song ever.

I respectfully disagree with their ranking - and I think it shows the author's age (at the time the… Read full post »

The Economist's Intelligence Unit has released its list of the top 10 most livable cities in the world:

1. Melbourne, Australia

2. Vienna, Austria

3. Vancouver, Canada

4. Toronto, Canada

5. Calgary, Canada

6. Sydney, Australia

7. Helsinki, Finland

8. Perth, Australia

9. Adelaide, Australia

10.… Read full post »

Man has finally achieved birdlike flight:

 SmartBird - a lightweight airplane modeled on a seagull - flies by flapping its wings Read full post »

Conservatives are beginning the process of turning Canada into a police state by reintroducing the tough on crime legislation it failed to pass before the May election in an omnibus bill.  They want the police to be able to perform  searches at Internet service providers without obtaining a… Read full post »

 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has begun a contest where participants record a cover of an iconic Canadian song.  The songs are: "Sundown", written and first performed by Gordon Lightfoot; "Run To You", written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance and first performed by Bryan Adams; "Li… Read full post »

McGill University researchers have developed a blood test for Alzheimer's disease. The researchers at the university's Health Centre say the test could soon be on the market. The study's senior author, Dr. Vassilios Papadopoulos, said, "Our clinical study shows that a noninvasive blood test . . .… Read full post »

The 359th consecutive sellout crowd for Vancouver Canucks hockey at Rogers Arena watched the Canucks defeat the San Jose Sharks last night to win their third round series 4 games to 1.  Defenseman Kevin Bieksa scored the game winning goal at 10:18 of the second sudden death overtime period to be… Read full post »

On Sunday, May 23, 2011, the Vancouver Canucks and San Jose Sharks played the fourth game of their third round series in the Stanley Cup playoffs.  The game was a noon local time start at the Shark Tank (AKA HP Pavilion) in San Jose.  Tanner Glass of the Canucks takes a… Read full post »