1. Digital lock Exemptions
(News/Citings)

... locks (software designed to prevent technology from being used in certain ways) but allows the Copyright Office to grant exceptions once every three years. Under the new guidelines, owners of smartphones ...

2. The Jedi Return, But Whose Side Are They On?
(Blog/Politics)

Awhile back I commented that Star Wars had been making headlines lately. I somehow managed to contribute to this situation when a slightly humorous blog post I wrote on a Friday afternoon ended up causing ...

3. Schwarzenegger Blocks the Latest Shot in the War On Farmers
(Blog/Econ)

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would have mandated overtime pay for agricultural workers who are on the job for more than eight hours in a day. California is already the ...

4. Does Owning a Small Business Make People Happier?
(Blog/Econ)

... as a challenging, but rewarding experience, sentiments that are confirmed by a new poll conducted by Environics Research for TD Bank. According to the press release: A remarkable 69 percent of American ...

5. Jedis March On Ottawa, Vader Robs Bank
(Blog/Politics)

While the U.S. deals with the Gulf oil spill, an overhaul of financial regulations, and overbearing immigration laws, the big summer controversy in Canada is whether the government should stop coercing ...

6. Do Free Markets Lead to Fairer Wages?
(Blog/Econ)

The financial crisis appears to have awoken a host of Bolsheviks from their post-cold war slumber. Free markets and deregulation have been blamed for everything from the housing bubble to the Gulf oil ...

7. Sickness or Salvation at the CRU?
(Blog/Environment)

... with investigating the scandal. But was the report itself a whitewash or are global warming skeptics trying to push an agenda? Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Cato Institute scholar Patrick Michaels ...

8. Airline Competition Works: Study
(Blog/Travel)

... and North America and found that protectionist policies on this side of the Atlantic lead to higher prices and fewer flights. Our protectionist policy towards air travel hurts both consumers ...

9. Newspapers: What are they good for?
(Blog/Media)

... idea after all. Like most of these doomsday theories, however, reality is never as bad as the naysayers would have us believe. Reason Magazine's Katherine Mangu-Ward decided to prove this point by ...

10. Calls Increasing to Punish BP, Halt Drilling
(Blog/Environment)

... tout the benefits of socialism, as though the Soviet Union was a model environmental steward. Regardless of your opinion of the merits of anthropogenic global warming, it seems clear that many environmentalists ...

11. Company Puts Warning on the Constitution
(Blog/Current Affairs)

... is taking a lot of heat for putting labels on copies of U.S. historical documents, warning readers that the work is "a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written ...

12. G-8 Security Costs Skyrocketing
(Blog/Politics)

... New York City, it is not unreasonable to ensure that government officials remain safe. Yet this Canadian stimulus program for police officers dwarfs the $25 million allocated by Congress for security at ...

13. Soldiers of Expression: Hate Speech, Censorship, and Journalism Ethics
(News/Opinion)

... right-of-centre political views in a predominantly left-wing university. My first post was on the war in Gaza and the problems I had with students and pundits who claimed that Israel was using a disproportionate ...

14. Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Reviewed
(Blog/Linux)

... Linux in a business environment. For those who don't know, Ubuntu is a version of the open source Linux operating system. Open source is a method of developing computer software, whereby an application’s ...

15. How Government Regulations Threaten Internet Freedom
(Blog/New Media)

... Web, to the browser wars of the '90s, to the creation of online payment systems, streaming video, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology, and the open source movement, a spirit of competition and ...

16. To Serve in Heaven (with 72 virgins)
(Blog/Free Speech)

... historically represented the greatest threat to freedom of expression: the state. Even before the magazine had hit newsstands, Calgary Imam Syed Soharwardy filed a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights ...

17. Revisiting Wafergate: The Political Scandal That Wasn't
(Blog/Media)

... an anonymous priest. Now there are some situations when it is legitimate for journalists to rely on anonymous sources. Woodward and Bernstein famously relied upon an anonymous source who they referred ...

18. Copyright or Copywrong: Geof Glass on why we need balanced copyright laws
(News/Features)

... just a piece of software on something you own. So it's inside Windows, inside the Mac operating system, it's inside your iPod, it's probably inside your cell phone. It can do anything other software can ...

19. The Persuasiveness of the Media
(Papers/Papers)

Introduction Comedian Jon Stewart makes a living off critiquing the media and satirizing political events. His nightly broadcast routinely highlights some of the less than professional behaviour of the ...

20. The Neutrality Complex: In Search of Free Markets and Neutral Networks
(News/Features)

... in the physical world. In 1996, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's John Perry Barlow famously warned governments to stay out of this new world that was being built online. “Governments of the Industrial ...