I was quite pleased to see the Ottawa Citizen run a huge article today on the fact of Evolution and a related article.  It's pleasing because even in Canada, the forces of stupidity would have us believe that some magical sky fairy bleemed everything into existence and gave humans domain over every...

An imaginative thank you for my choir members? My choir (about which I asked a previous question) is about to do its final two concerts of the "season" this coming week. They have been a fantastic bunch, incredibly hard-working and committed, and we've had a ball together. Despite having p...

If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you know that I’m in Montreal to get some BlackBerrys unlocked. The city is only 2 hours away from BBCool headquarters in Ottawa, so I took the bus to meet some unlocking companies I found online. The first company I went to was run by a guy called...

It was my pleasure last evening to attend a debate, in the Arts Building at the University of Ottawa, on the morality of abortion. I found out about this debate only a few days before, thanks to a blog post at ProWomanProLife. Then, I almost wasn’t able to go: after taking a hard fall on some ...

It was my pleasure last evening to attend a debate, in the Arts Building at the University of Ottawa, on the morality of abortion. I found out about this debate only a few days before, thanks to a blog post at ProWomanProLife. Then, I almost wasn't able to go: after taking a hard fall on some ice on...

“Venture capital is dead. It’s gone.” Sir Terry Matthews didn’t mince words Thursday morning as the keynote speaker at OCRI’s Technology Executive Breakfast. Not that he ever does. And while some might argue that statement about the status of Canada’s venture capi...

Will Leaf fans give Mats Sundin the gears Saturday, or will he be cheered? BY TSM Editor’s Note: This article comes to us courtesy of Torontosportsmedia.com, a web site that focuses on the sports journalism scene in T.O. We will soon be engaging in a content-sharing arrangement with this site, so ...

Just ask Daniel Alfredsson (left), who’s having a jaw-droppingly crappy week, if whatever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. It’s been a rough spell for Daniel Alfredsson, as first photos of him wearing a pink dress in Las Vegas find their way onto the inter-tubes, then his jaw goes boom....

We call Twitter, Facebook, Myspace and the like “online communities,” but many people find that label hard to swallow.  After all, communities care for one another, support each other and are brought together by something deeper than shared interests or geography. If nothing else was go...

“Even if there’s blood on the street there’s always somebody making money. You just have to make sure you’re on the right side of it.” The son of poor Croatian immigrants, he sold his first company for $100 million in 2000. His second company, launched in 2003, is now...