It is true that I constantly encourage people to participate in voting and the democratic process, but it IS possible to take it a little to far:
Just after noon, a man ran into polling station No. 81 in the town's stadium and tried to grab two boxes. An election official snatched one, but the man made it out with the other one under his arm ( Read more... )

Political differences aside; please, please, please, everyone make sure to vote tomorrow.

CONSERVATIVES WON'T DECRIMINALIZE MARIJUANA ( Read more... )

A bipartisan NGO called "Vote Marriage, Canada" has published a list on their website of the names of candidates running in this election that would uphold the "traditional definition of marriage" and seek to reverse same-sex marriage legislation.

The last few lines sum up how I'm feeling right now about my country.

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I just had to add a this comment from author/illustrator author warren ellis on the theme of Martin's missile defence policy announcement ( Read more... )

The Liberals have begun to sound like a pack of dying animals. Harper's Conservatives are now 10 points ahead in the polls and Martin's frantic attempts to dichotomize value differences between himself and Harper appears to be falling on deaf ears. The past week has seen numerous "liberal" or left-centre policy announcements as the Liberals ( Read more... )

To my amusement, Paul Martin's past few days on the election trail have been spent pretending that his testicles have finally made the descent from his body cavity into his scrotum (occurs for most normal males around 28 weeks in utero, anatomy review hereUnder pressure to lead the Liberals to another election victory, Martin has come to the ( Read more... )

"'Our values are under attack," Stephen Harper declared Saturday in Vancouver. The enemies are drugs, he said, and a federal government that has been far too soft in battling the scourge on the streets. "Some people want to deal with the problem by simply surrendering," Mr. Harper fumed, but a Conservative government would wage war ( Read more... )

So I signed up to be a research subject in a phase 3 vaccine trial for a new Hepatitis B vaccine (co-designed by one of my supervisors). The vaccine is identical to the one currently being used, except it's given in 3 doses, rather than 2. There's also a lower quantity of vaccine being given at each dose, but an "immune system booster" (technical ( Read more... )