Everything is subsidized in Canada. Everything. Click here to read the rest.

Remember that kerfuffle when someone hacked the online naked photos of some gorgeous famous women? Oh, you do. Very interesting from the point of view of cybersecurity. I thought so myself. Click here to read the rest.

You sure sound like a snob turning up your nose at food bank donations. But I can do better. I can sound like a callous snob. Click here to read the rest.

Apparently the Harper Tories might finally start meddling in the economy, picking winners and losers, jettisoning the lessons of the last 40 years, fiscal prudence and their professed core beliefs to hand out public money to everyone with a hat. What, again? Click here to read the rest.

Ottawa has a problem with guns and gangs. Several problems actually. But the biggest one, as usual, is conceptual, because if you don’t realize what you’re doing wrong you can’t change it. Click here to read the rest.

We face a multiple choice question on prostitution: Criminalize it for both parties, legalize it, or pursue the “Nordic model” where it’s illegal to buy sex but not to sell it. All have drawbacks but you must pick one. Click here to read the rest.

You should never buy a man’s chicken until you’ve seen his bookshelf. At least so says Joel Salatin, a countercultural conservative organic farmer profiled in Michael Pollan’s brilliant The Omnivore’s Dilemma, because, “The way I produce a chicken is an extension of my worldview.” Surely that’s also true of political platforms. So I wonder what our politicians are reading these days. Click here to read the rest.

Can I complain about technology here? Not my usual curmudgeonly bit about how machinery can’t save our souls, social media are stupid and electric light killed the night sky. I mean why are we surrounded by so much fancy stuff doing so little? Click here to read the rest.