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Proposed Carbon Tax for Families with More Than Two Children Reads like Dystopian Novel Plot

Monday, December 10th, 2007

One of my all-time favourite books – Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card – is set in a future where humanity is at war with a remote but deadly race of aliens. In this future, socio-economic factors after two crippling inter-planetary wars lead to the point where Earth’s government imposes population restriction laws. The [...]

Recent Announcement of Canadian Cell Phone Spectrum Set Aside for Newcomers is Political Bullshit

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

In May, 2008, 105 mhz of the 2 Ghz radio spectrum in Canada will be auctioned off to the highest bidders. This spectrum is the spectrum that the new “3G” highspeed wireless services (currently enjoyed predominantly outside of North America) will run on. The Canadian government recently announced that they would be setting aside a [...]

The Carbon Footprint of a Supermodel

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Editor’s note: I will be better about writing regularly from now on. I just had a death in the family hot on the heels of moving homes.
On my 50km commute from a meeting in downtown Vancouver to my home in the subburbs (no, the irony is not lost of me that I was commuting as [...]

Don’t Burn Nanotechnology At The Stake

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

One little note before I get into the meat of my rant/article: I am not writing this thinking that I am the first person to make this connection so that I can look back in a few years’ time and say “Ha! I told you mooks that this was going to happen!” I realize that [...]

Perpetual Motion Policy

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

(Originally posted on policy.ca on October 23, 2006)
Policy.ca tried to get blogging going on their website last year and I was one of the few bloggers that posted there. This article was the first policy blog article to feature on the site but unfortunately the policy.ca blog was shortlived. I wanted to re-post this article [...]

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