Anyone using the term 'bandwidth hog' forfeits the right to be taken seriously

Yeah, yeah, I know. A coherent policy framework may be too much to expect, given the Harper government's predilections.

Scandalous!

It's only Monday, but Jonathan Goldsbie's already taken the prize for Tweet of the Week.

Someone remind me: what does the Police Services Board do again?

So the cops are going to keep their sound cannons. The deal is done.

Bandwidth shortage! Hoard your bytes!

Of course, it's bullshit. Manufactured narrative and straw men.

Ottawa cops and sex-assault claims

It seems the Ottawa police throw out complaints of sexual assault at a rate ten times that of any other crime.

Now why do you suppose that could be? [cough] Stacy Bonds [cough]

This is what happens when you enable dictators

Apparently the Egyptian security forces have started rounding up foreign journalists in Cairo.

Harper and the CRTC: baiting and switching?

Is that the term for it?

Could it be that he's throwing us a bone on usage-based internet billing so that the loosening of broadcast standards making it easier to lie on the air stays under the radar?