Canada and the European Union are currently negotiating a new free trade agreement called the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA). According to a detailed report prepared by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) Negotiating from Weakness, if CETA is implemented as currently written, Canada’s progressive...

 This week I spent a whole bunch of time trying to help someone whose hard drive had crashed.  Her laptop got dropped, after which she wasn’t able to turn it on.  When I plugged it into another machine, the computer couldn’t even see that there was a hard drive there.  I phoned her to let […]

Any cop, lawyer, judge or prosecutor knows that when you give in to blackmail, it’s not the end of the shakedown. Not by any means! Too bad the Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission never learned that lesson.It’s only a few months ago that the CRTC caved in to the demands of Canada’s private television...

Touching on the deer population is something I exclaimed I would never bother with as the whole thing is really absurd. Seems the absurdity has reached levels that make me want to dive in as Mayor Taylor puts us on the map again with his apparent Charles Bronson approach to deer control in Grand Forks. […]

If you look down the right hand side of this page, just below the comments box, you'll see something new. It's called 'The Rossland Telegraph Megaphone' and as we mourn the passing of print newspapers, it's worth keeping in mind the many possibilities of the new world of online news. As we've always said here at the Telegraph,...

The very last issue of the Weekender will hit our mailboxes tomorrow, and the Nelson Daily News is already closed for good.   It has been suggested that, as the owner of an on-line media outlet, I should be delighted at the newspapers’ demise.   Nothing could be farther from the truth.   For starters, […]

As you may have noticed I haven’t been blogging much over the last couple of weeks. (Largely this is because I have been immersed in fighting the privatization of the local sewage treatment system). But in part it is the result of having some doubts about what the point is. I often say to people that the left – whatever that...

Perhaps I’m just following it out of pure jealousy and morbid curiosity, but I have been all too amused and interested in the historic falls that two of the worlds’ more well-off stars took these past two weeks. If Mel Gibson thought he had a lot of crap flying his way before, the s**tstorm that […]

So here we go. In the midst of a trial about the murder of a young boy by a person with a mental illness, the local media is writing up articles about the illness and its impact on a person’s life. An example of too much, too late perhaps?   As a community we need […]

Last summer, Industry Canada held a series of nationwide consultations on copyright. It asked for input from consumers, industry experts and content developers on how best to modernize federal copyright legislation, which had not been reviewed since 1997. The result is Bill C-32, A Bill to Amend the Copyright Act, which was recently introduced in Parliament by Industry […]