Earlier this week, RCMP commissioner Giuliano (Zack) Zaccardelli got thrust into the unenviable position of seeing his RCMP investigators are indeed conducting an investigation in the midst of an election campaign into the possibility that senior government officials may have inappropriately disclosed some market-moving financial information. This has come to ...   more »

The Canadian Arts Coalition, which bills itself as the largest consortium of artists and artists' organization to ever come to together in Canada, has launched a new Web site at www.votearts2006.ca . The group has praise for the current Liberal government's pre-election commitment to invest $306-million over the next ...   more »

If you’re running Mac OS X, the odds are probably pretty good that your Web browser is the one Apple makes — Safari. Or you might be having a little fun with Mozilla’s Firefox on OS X (a very credible alternative to Safari).

But you’re probably not using ...   more »

Once, while schmoozing at the Boston home of Bob Metcalfe, I ended up sitting beside Tim Berners-Lee (right), the inventor of the World Wide Web, both of us with a cold chicken plate perched on our knee trying to make the kind of awkward small talk that’s likely to ...   more »

A Toronto company — Tucows — recently bought a big chunk of a former Silicon Valley high flier — Critical Path — which once upon a time bought up another Toronto company — DocSpace Co. — in what was, at the the time, the biggest ever dot-come windfall to date ...   more »

My colleague Bill Doskoch, visiting the land of the free for Christmas, writes that he had a little trouble figuring out that the Deputy Prime Minister was, in fact, running under the Liberal banner.
But if you think Anne McLellan is trying to tone down the fact that ...   more »

Justice John Gomery (left) is the newsmaker of the year -- by a landslide -- in the annual Canadian Press / Broadcast News poll of the country's editors and newsroom producers.

Gomery garnered more than half of the votes cast in the poll. Karla Homolka was a distant number two....   more »

Stephen Taylor (left) is having a very good campaign.

He's not running for election; he's blogging about it.

And, so far, he's had at least three good 'gets', as we say in the mainstream media business, on his blog. Today, Taylor puts up a post in which he claims to ...   more »

If so -- and you're using a recent version of iTunes -- you'll want to start subscribing to his podcasts. Like most of his Canadian fans, I first discovered Ricky (left)in The Office where he played -- hilariously so -- boss David Brent. Gervais has his own Web site...   more »

Got a press release today from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, in which UBC's PR people claim that theirs is the first university in Canada to offer podcasts to "that gives alumni, students, faculty and others global audio access to UBC-related content such as the popular ...   more »