As you may already know, Voltage Pictures, the company responsible for the movie The Hurt Locker, (as well as a million movies you’ve never heard of) is currently in court, attempting to get an Ontario-based internet service provider to release the names associated with over 1000 IP addresses that they claim belong to people who illegally downloaded their copyrighted material.
On April 1st 2014, new federal legislation will strip current medical marijuana users of their right to grow, and/or have a designated grower. There are approximately 2,800 growers producing for the over 26,000 medical marijuana users in this country.
About a year ago, I sat down to brunch across from one of the most badass women I’ve ever met. We’ll call her Sandra. Sandra’s not badass in the way many people would define the word.
Since being elected to government nine years ago, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives haven’t exactly proven themselves to be particularly principled.
My roommate is Japanese, which means her slippers magically clean whatever surface they touch, she draws faces on everything, and her quirky behavior—that would normally be unbearably annoying—is adorable.
Christie Blatchford, a columnist over at the National Post with a reputation for being a bit of a troll, wrote a horribly misdirected response to the Rehtaeh Parsons case that literally could not have been more tasteless.
Last January, the bedraggled remains of the once-mighty Liberal party assembled for their biennial convention and came up with a big idea: decriminalizing, but not legalizing, marijuana.
Every time terrorism hits our shores, or even when—just as we saw recently—it nearly does, it feels like an entirely new phenomenon. This conflation of shock with novelty is probably some sort of human constant, and it is definitely the reaction that people willing to commit such acts are after.
In my mind, the Cannabis Cup never actually existed. It was a cliché, a staple phrase of high school stoner conversation, and it was held in Amsterdam, an equally mythical place.
After the revelation that Xristos Katsiroubas and Ali Medlej, two Canadians from London, Ontario, had participated and died in the attempted January 2013 al-Qaeda take-over of the Tigantourine gas facility near Aménas, Algeria, many Canadians could not comprehend why and how a Canadian would join al-Qaeda—or any other terrorist organization for that matter.
