Otherwise known as shuffling deputy ministers around. 1.  We’d be remiss if we didn’t note that the provincial government’s recycling program – complete with the used tire mess – is now being run, albeit on an acting basis, by the same guy who runs the provincial government’s fire a...

One of the reasons that so many of us here take issue with proposals to expand regulation of communications, broadband, and media markets is because we have studied the horrendous inefficiencies of economic regulation in practice. We oppose regulatory proposals not because of a “blind faith...

How do you deal with a boss that brushes you off when you offer a better solution to a problem when their solution has rather large and obvious holes in it? We've gotten a new team leader as of late who's quite young and inexperienced in the workforce in general. As a result of the front-line staff ...

i am currently elbows-deep in creating the cheesiest powerpoint presentation in history. basically, we need to show off our new logo to our board, and express to them that we have a history of completely rubbish graphics that makes this one look like the nike swoosh by comparison. and, since it's fo...

Yes, precisely as Marc says, it’s “Business as Usual.” It’s a good thing too, otherwise Data Portability will never be broadly adopted by social networks. With precious few open-source exceptions, new technologies and standards become mainstream because some startup sees pote...