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I received this email today, which I'm posting here with the sender's permission. Hello, My name is Tyler and I really want to move to Canada. I would like to run my plan by you since you have gone through the process although I plan on taking a different route. From what I have read, I can get a job lined up there (I plan on Edmonton) and apply for a work permit which is typically good for one year and can be extended for up to 3 years while in country. The typical work permit normally only takes up to two months to get. During that first year in Canada, my employer can sponsor me for my permanent residency. My work permit automatically doubles as a temporary residence while this process is going through. Also, if that falls through for whatever reason, my fiancee (who is a Canadian citizen) and I will be living together for that entire year so after that year, she can sponsor me through common law Canadian citizen sponsor. What do you think? Any advise and am I missing someth...

Please read this. The lynching of Iraq By James Carroll The hanging of Saddam Hussein Dec. 30 offered a view into the grotesque reality of what America has sponsored in Iraq, and what Americans saw should inform their response to President Bush's escalation of the war. The deposed tyrant was mercilessly taunted. As he stood on the threshold of the afterlife and was told to go to hell, the world witnessed a chilling elevation of the ancient curse, making an absolute villain an object of pity. And then, in chanting the name of Moqtada al-Sadr, whose family had been a particular target of Hussein's his executioners made clear that the execution was an act of tribal revenge, not of national restoration, much less justice. It was a lynching. This Shi'ite brutality is guaranteed to spawn Sunni savagery. Iraq itself is hell. Officials of the United States, from military commanders in Baghdad to members of the Bush administration in Washington, sought to distance themselves from t...

Zip.ca is really pissing me off. As you know, I loved Netflix , and I was very disappointed that their planned expansion into Canada didn't happen. I signed on with Zip, the Netflix equivalent, as soon as I could. When we first joined, Zip was missing one key feature of the Netflix experience: you couldn't put your queue (called a ZipList here) in priority order. For Netflix users, the queue is sancrosanct. You're always updating and changing the order, bumping movies up and down. Your queue is your wish-list of every movie you might ever want to see. You never expect to see the ones at the bottom of the queue, you just keep adding titles anyway. You keep the movies you most wanted to see in the top 10 or 15, and those are the ones you get. On Zip, movies were sent to you from your list in random order. It didn't matter what order your list was in, because you had no control over the order you'd receive them. Not ideal, but that's what they offered, and I went ...

From longtime friend of wmtc James , Happy John A Macdonald Day !

In case you're not aware of this, there will be a huge March on Washington on Saturday, January 27 , to demand an end to the war on Iraq. Every peace and justice group will be organizing buses. Religious organizations, women's groups, queer groups, environmental, student, labour, civil rights, disability rights - everyone you can think of is organizing for a massive demonstration. Contact any local progressive organization to find out how you can get involved, or just Google "march on washington january 27" and your state or city. Get on a bus. Go.

As the Resident prepares to announce that more American lives will be wasted in Iraq, I want to highlight someone who has already been there - and who has risked his own freedom in the fight to end this war for private profit. Twenty-year-old Ivan Brobeck, of Arlington, Virginia, had been living in Canada. During his tour of duty in Iraq in 2004, Brobeck witnessed the commonplace abuse of Iraqi detainees and the murder of Iraqi civilians at military checkpoints. Rather than go back for a second stint, he went to Canada. Brobeck regards the war as illegal and immoral, and against both the interests and the moral standards of ordinary Americans. That is brave enough. But Ivan Brobeck wasn't satisfied with escaping the war himself. He wanted to help end it altogether. On Election Day, Brobeck returned to the US to deliver a letter to Bush and Congress. November 6, 2006 Dear President Bush, I grew up in Arlington, Virginia. Joining the military was something I always wanted to do. Thr...

My desk did not survive the move. We knew that would probably happen, or not happen, whichever. How it survived the move from New York City to Canada was a minor miracle. It was left with wobbly legs, the keyboard tray would fall off if you breathed wrong, and it always felt like it might fall down if I typed too quickly. That desk started out in the world in a flat box. It was one of the more insane assembly-required pieces of furniture I've ever seen, and this from a diehard Ikea-cist. Desk, hutch, printer table and small rolling file cabinet, reduced to flat square panels. I swear, the first instruction was: go into forest, cut down trees... So the desk made it to Canada, but didn't make it out of Port Credit. Since we moved, my monitor has been sitting on the little printer stand, keyboard in my lap. Not my preferred method of working. I love Ikea, I live by Ikea, but their clean-lined, table-like desks just aren't for me. I need a serious desk. I always see TV ads for ...