News item: Microsoft take a stake in Facebook. Microsoft's rumoured investment -- the companies aren't talking -- would value the social networking site at $10-billion US. (Or, come to think of it, $10-billion Canadian ... hey, I'm takin' the loonie out for a walk while I can! ...   more »

Gosh, don't these yokels in B.C. know they're liable to bankrupt themselves???!!

B.C. COMMUNITIES COMMIT TO CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2012

VANCOUVER – Local governments from across B.C. signed a Climate Action Charter with the Province and the Union of BC Municipalities today, committing to a goal of becoming carbon neutral ...   more »

Andrew O'Hagan -- whose books I keep meaning to read ... has a delightful (and short!) essay in the London Review of Books:

My name’s Andrew, and I’m a reachaholic . . .

Nowadays, being unavailable is understood to be an act of aggression equal to driving tanks through ...   more »

Substitute "PMO" for "White House" and "Prime Minister Harper" for "President Bush" and you have, in Dan Froomkin's Washington Post column, a pretty interesting column for Canadian readers:

How much control should the White House have over who gets to interview President Bush? Specifically, should Bush be able to ...   more »

Just because I'm one of those geeks that likes to fool around with a spreadsheet, here's some more data on job creation in Canada during the last five years, a period in which the loonie's value has soared compared to the currency of our biggest trading partner, the U.S.

• The ...   more »