The story of America’s independence from England is very well known, but did you know that Canada was also once part of the British Empire? It’s true! We Canadians threw off the same British yoke as you, only we took a more leisurely route to liberation. In fact, you might say, we’ve been “declaring” our [...]

Where’s Willy is a canadian website modelled after the Where’s George US site that follows a piece of money around the country.
The site tracks money and is named after Wilfrid Laurier whose face in on the five dollar bill. People log into the site, enter the serial number and watch where the bill winds up.
Let’s [...]

Alberta, Saskachewan and Manitoba, the three Canadian prairie provinces have had a wet couple of weeks as heavy rain has hit the provinces.
Now the largest city in Alberta is under a state of emergency and a mandatory evacuation order. Right now officials expect to evacuate around 2 thousand people.
The province has a population of about [...]

This article in the New Strait Times takes a look at the rise of blogs in Malaysia, who the bloggers are and what their implact is. It is estimated there are 10 thousand blogs in the country.
Malaysian Jeff Ooi of Screenshots recently won the Best Asian blog promoting freedom from Reporters without borders. Ooi faced [...]

“Let those now who reverently and worshipfully fear the Lord say that His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever. Out of my distress I called upon the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free and in a large place. The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to [...]

The threats have come from the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania beginning in January against personal website
So then, why would WTBTS leadership want to shut down a web site that did nothing more than quote from their own religious literature? Because the very nature of these quotations is embarrassing to them, [...]

Noth America’s Pacific coast have exeperienced four earthquakes this week.
More here.

Nearly one-fifth of Web users who read newspapers now prefer online to offline editions, according to a new study from Internet audience measurement company Nielsen//NetRatings.
The first-time study from Nielsen//NetRatings found that 21 percent of those Web users now primarily use online versions of newspapers, while 72 percent still read print editions.
The remaining 7 percent split [...]