by Risa Dickens
Though he doesn’t know it and wouldn’t like it Linus Torvalds, developer of the Linux operating system and original author of the Linux kernel, is my hero. Not because he has battled heroically against bad guys, or spoken movingly on mountain tops, but because of the way in which he has been a [...]
Last night about twenty fine couples shook their stuff with all their hearts at the strange, tiny and fabulous anomaly that is Blizzarts bar on St.Laurent, here in Montreal.
Even when I was about seventeen this spot was tops. Back when it used to be called Flipsides (if I remember right) and my highschool friend [...]
In 1883, eleven countries, nervously preparing to participate in the Paris Exposition, signed the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.
The provisions of the convention were revised and solidified by new acts in 1925, 1934, 1958, and 1967- before developing countries belonged in large numbers.
As of January 1, 1986, 97 states were parties [...]
This is series of quotations from Charles Prestwich Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian from 1872 to 1929. The Guardian was a reform-minded journal that played a major role in the formation of public opinion during the time when the “taxes on knowledge” maintained The Times’ monopoly. Under Scott the paper continuously advanced a progressive [...]
Surviving Canada- Kanehsatake
I have quoted what were for me the key bits of new information below. I think looking closely at the way we’ve conducted out communications and relationships with the other Nations who are here, and at what we’ve missed out on because of how people on both “sides” have behaved, might [...]
