The Standing Committee on Social Policy will be in Ottawa on May 22nd to hold public hearings on Bill 13 and 14. Among the confirmed speakers will be the Catholic Women’s League of Canada and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (“homosexual activists … subvert already weak Catholic sexual teaching in the schools”). When: 9:00am, Tuesday, May 22, 2012 Where: Ottawa …
I’ve just come back from a week-long escape to Cuba. I decided that I would do this two weeks ago, and organized it all the Monday before my departure. The trip was a success. I read an entire book – the Pulitzer-winning The Forever War by Dexter Filkins – and got a head start on …
Update: May 3, 2012. According to the CBC, Bill 13 has passed second reading. It will now head to committee. The end tally was 66 to 33, with the Liberals and NDP voting for its passage, and the PCs voting against it. This followed a piece by Xtra! yesterday stating that the Liberals were planning on using …
I just updated my laptop to Ubuntu 12.04, the latest version of the popular Linux distribution. I couldn’t say this ten or even three years ago, but it’s better than Windows. Everything just works out of the box, and the interface is intuitive. It also doesn’t lock me out of my own files, which Windows …