You can read about the Principality of Sealand here. You can also watch a little documentary on how to start your own country here. And here, you can vote on whether or not Canada should recognize the Principality of Sealand as an independent state: ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Poll: Should Canada recognize Sealand as an independent country?
Posted by Peter Jaworski on October 31, 2010 5 comments
Declaring independence: The Principality of Sealand
Posted by Peter Jaworski on October 31, 2010 2 comments
UPDATE: Vote in our poll (Should Canada recognize Sealand as an independent state?). The two most interesting micronations (or “unrecognized” states, as they are sometimes called) are the Principality of Hutt River in Australia and the Principality of Sealand. What makes them interesting is their long history, and their strange quasi-recognized status. What follows is [...]
Omar Khadr symbolically sentenced to 40 years
Posted by Peter Jaworski on October 31, 2010 Comments Off
A U.S. military panel “sentenced” Omar Khadr to 40 years today. The sentence does not hold legal water, since a plea deal with Khadr limits his sentence to a maximum of eight years. Strangely, the panel that reached the decision was unaware of the deal that was struck, making the sentence symbolic. ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
This week’s most read
Posted by Peter Jaworski on October 31, 2010 Comments Off
Here are the most read stories over the past seven days: 5. Omar Khadr’s coming back to Canada. Why not Marc Emery? 4. Why I don’t vote 3. How to start your own country, the documentary 2. Some dudes marry dudes. Get over it 1. The spiked bench, now in China ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
Reason TV skewers the partisans
Posted by Peter Jaworski on October 30, 2010 3 comments
Below, I posted a video of Jon Stewart being reasonable. Now, here’s the best magazine in the world doing what the best magazine in the world ought to do: Skewering the partisan idiots. Watch as reason asks all the right questions. For example, a lot of attention is paid to the number of white folk [...]
Jon Stewart: “We live in hard times, not end times”
Posted by Peter Jaworski on October 30, 2010 1 comment
Here’s the first video I’ve seen of today’s Rally to Restore Sanity, the Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central counter-rally to Glenn Beck’s Rally for the Republic from a while ago: ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
Rob Ford is winning me over
Posted by Terrence Watson on October 30, 2010 3 comments
Less than 24 hours after his victory, Rob Ford is on the field, coaching football practice as his team prepares for a critical game. So what do you do when CBC’s As It Happens phones you for an interview? If you’re Rob Ford, you keep coaching. Awesome. Audio here. It’s part one. Transcript here. The [...]
What frightens Obama fans and neo-cons?
Posted by Peter Jaworski on October 29, 2010 3 comments
Why, a Ron Paul jack-o-lantern! (Boo): ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
Miniature trebuchet fires on flies and bees and bugs
Posted by Peter Jaworski on October 29, 2010 Comments Off
This is pretty amazing right here: ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
Bill Whatcott’s case goes on to the Supreme Court
Posted by Terrence Watson on October 29, 2010 3 comments
I missed this yesterday, so forgive me. The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear the appeal of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. As some may recall, the Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal imposed a fine of $17,500 on Whatcott after he sent out a bunch of anti-gay flyers. A provincial appeals court later acquitted [...]
Omar Khadr and why some conservatives appear to have lost their minds (or moral compass)
Posted by Peter Jaworski on October 29, 2010 5 comments
Have some conservatives lost their mind? Their inability to sympathize with Omar Khadr is beginning to get under my skin. Suppose Khadr is as evil and awful as some are suggesting he is. Does it follow that we should discount or turn a blind eye to how he was treated while in detention? There are [...]
David Chen walks free
Posted by Mike Brock on October 29, 2010 5 comments
The justice has brought down a ruling in the case of David Chen, who was charged with assault and forcible confinement after taking the law into his own hands in a case of vigilante justice that has captured the attention of Torontonians and Canadians at-large. Chen, a grocer in Toronto’s China Town apprehended Anthony Bennet, [...]
The curious case of Maxime Bernier
Posted by Peter Jaworski on October 28, 2010 Comments Off
Here’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin discussing libertarian MP Maxime Bernier with, amongst others, Gerry Nicholls: ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
How to start your own country, the documentary
Posted by Peter Jaworski on October 28, 2010 2 comments
The Volunteer is named after a newspaper put out by the rebel William Lyon Mackenzie after an unsuccessful attempt to start an independent country. In December of 1837, Mackenzie, along with 200 of his supporters, landed on Navy Island and declared it the Republic of Canada. That flag you see in the top right of [...]
CAW on free trade with the EU
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on October 28, 2010 19 comments
I was not shocked yesterday to read that CAW is opposing a trade agreement with the European Union. CAW claims that the agreement will mean 28 000 fewer manufacturing jobs. Even if I accept that number, it completely ignores the jobs that will be created by more open trade. The history of the 20th century [...]
The spiked bench, now in China
Posted by Peter Jaworski on October 27, 2010 1 comment
It’s not fair that some people sit on park benches for so long. It’s a public resource, and everyone should have a chance to sit on a park bench. Fabian Brunsing thought the same thing. To overcome this problem, he has constructed a wonderful market-based solution. It’s called the “Pay & Sit.” It works like [...]
Conservative government announces search for mindless, automaton immigrants that appear to have gone missing
Posted by Mike Brock on October 27, 2010 3 comments
OTTAWA (Disassociated Press) — There are at least one million missing mindless, automatic left-wing voting, welfare-leeching immigrants that appear to have gone missing in Toronto as evidenced by the recent municipal election in Toronto, according to political experts on the left and the right. Speaking at a media scrum in the rotunda of the Parliament, [...]
Venezuela’s prices: 32% savings compared with capitalist prices!
Posted by Peter Jaworski on October 27, 2010 2 comments
Harvard economics professor Greg Mankiw received an email from a Venezuelan. Attached to the email is a photo of a price tag in Venezuela: The explanation: This one is from Mercado Bicentenario, in Centro Comercial Ciudad Tamanaco (CCCT), a mall, in Caracas, Venezuela. It says: Description of the product: Diana Oil. Fair Price: 4,73 Bfs. [...]
A Liberal strategy for victory
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on October 27, 2010 7 comments
For the first time I found myself nodding in agreement with something that Scott Reid wrote (the Liberal insider not the Conservative MP). Usually I roll my eyes at his inane partisanship, but he has taken what I think is an accurate view of the current political situation on the federal level (once you take [...]
Omar Khadr’s coming back to Canada. Why not Marc Emery?
Posted by Terrence Watson on October 26, 2010 13 comments
A year from now, more or less, Omar Khadr will be back in Canada. In exchange for pleading guilty to murder, Khadr will serve eight years, and return to Canada after serving one year of that sentence. In a submission of facts, written as part of his plea bargain, Khadr admits he “tossed a grenade ‘with [...]