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Your Government advertises on porn sites. The Liberals are outraged. Also, there are naked ladies on the computer-machines, and you should be outraged.
That’s the storyline, but let’s break it down.
First of all, by “Government”, we mean the two saddest little lumps of apathetic-shrugs that make up your tax dollars this side of the CBC: Canada [...]

Back in the pre-Youtube days – a phrase that sounds so quaint and old-fashioned you’d might as well be starting a sentence with “so I got my Van Halen 8-track stuck in my Geo Metro” – funny videos were hard to come by on the web. You’d have to use Yahoo, or Lycos, or Altavista [...]

Over the past year, Twitter has been adopted as the tool of choice for cutting-edge Members of Parliament to connect with their constituents about political positions, breaking Parliamentary news and the inside scoop on Government issues.
Failing that, Twitter’s used for 140-character partisan snipes and announcing what MPs had for breakfast.
According to the fantastic site Politwitter, [...]

WELCOME BACK, POLITICS! We missed you! Our Olympic break was fun, though, we got to post all sorts of silly things as the OFFICIAL CANADIAN™ POLITICS BLOG OF THE VANCOUVER™ 2010™ OLYMPICS™, writing about sexy curlers and acid flashbacks and Nickelback, but now we have to put our Serious Hat back on to make Serious [...]

As I type this, Your Honourable Leader of the Opposition His Iggyness is engaged in an online live chat! Not with the media, or a newspaper… with a Facebook group! Oh God, the political parties are becoming aware of “The Internet”! Soon it’s gonna be all, Facebook Michael Ignatieff’s Twitters On Youtube To Blog A [...]

Hey, remember this Angelo Persichilli fellow? He’s done roughly one notable thing in his journalism career, and that was writing a column where he made up a bunch of lies, slander and unverifiable claims. Now he’s complaining that bloggers are making up a bunch of lies, slander and unverifiable claims using this crazy new “internet” [...]

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