Confusion Camouflage: Disguise in the 21st C.
You’ve heard about the surveillance state, but what about a surveillance society? One where it’s not just the government with an eye on you, but everyone else too. That security camera at the corner...
View ArticleUnited States of America v. Jim Yvonne: Phone Transcript
Exhibit B presented in the criminal complaint against the defendant, Jim Yvonne, who is currently serving 10 years for the discussion and promotion of banned materials. Only Mr. Yvonne’s comments are...
View Article150 Years of Forgetting About the Tenant League – Part 1
Click all images to enlarge 1864 was a year like any other. At Heligoland, while the sun set on the age of sail, across the ocean the American Civil War recorded the first naval kill by a submarine. On...
View Article150 Years of Forgetting about the Tenant League – Part 2
In Part 1 we saw how the Leasehold system on Prince Edward Island throughout the mid-1800s created an imbalance of power between tenants and their absentee landlords. A number of legal movements and...
View Article150 Years of Forgetting About the Tenant League – Part 3
“Winter Mail Service on Prince Edward Island”, 1867 – Click Images to Enlarge In Part 1 we saw how legal efforts to settle the Land Question on PEI were squashed resulting in a movement intent on...
View ArticleThe Old Sadogue
a homage to the rock I could barely read then but even I knew how the story of the Old Sadogue began. “Wherever he goes, the fish follow in his wake.” They said he was fat like a walrus and had tusks...
View ArticleUNews: Extra Duty Policing, Rope Bondage, Oh My!
For the past few weeks I’ve had the great opportunity to work with fellow King’s Journalism students on the UNews site, reporting on news in the Halifax area. I was fortunate enough to be able to cover...
View ArticleThe Next Game of Thrones Will Be In Space
and I don’t mean the books Consider our media landscape as tides under pale moonlight, ebbing and flowing between trends that capture our collective imagination. The early 2000s were dominated by...
View ArticleNational Post Round-up
First update in a while but things have been busy over the past few months. I’m wrapping up my year at kings and just finished a month-long intership with the National Post in Toronto. I had the...
View ArticleEnd Militarized Ghostbusting, Opponents Say
UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A no-knock raid in upstate New York over the weekend is sparking outrage and demands from protesters for increased regulation of so-called ghostbuster groups. “We didn’t even call,”...
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