The Blog of Walker

Blog URL:http://www.walkersunknownthoughts.blogspot.com
Blog Tags:Politics, libertarianism, free speech, Walker Morrow
Country:Canada
State/Province:British Columbia

My personal blog, where I talk about everything from politics, to free speech, to what I'm doing during any particular morning.



Latest Blog Posts



Occasional correspondent Andrew Phillips writes: The dangers of OxyContin was known in the late 1990's and between the years 1999 and 2003 there had been between a 4 and 5 fold increase in deaths where OxyContin had been detected in the blood stream...

Michael Geist on ACTA

on Mar 4, 2012

This is ACTA. And this is University of Ottawa Prof. Michael Geist's take-down of ACTA: Some more background here.

Your morning buzzkill

on Mar 4, 2012

Jimhenshaw at The Legion of Decency notices something rather alarming: The last couple of weeks, Canadians have become increasingly concerned about the Federal Government’s proposed Internet Protection Bill (C-30).  The legislation see...

I don't know what the other side to this story is, but even if untrue it still catches the eye: CHICAGO (CN) - A family claims Chicago police broke into their house, urinated on their mail, spit in the coffee maker, stomped and slapped them and told...

Anna Mehler Paperny reports for the Globe and Mail: British Columbia is clamping down on the addictive painkillers it pays for. Starting next week, the province won’t cover the drug replacing OxyContin except in “exceptional” circumstances.&n...

A little while back, Reason's Jacob Sullum asked a very good question based on the tragic death of Tyler Clementi. First, the set-up: Dharun Ravi is on trial in New Jersey for spying on his college roommate. Although the Newark Star-Ledger says...

I should be clear that I'm not particularly a fan of Sun TV. But this is good news. This is good news. The CBC filed a copyright notice against the clip you see here. I filed a counterclaim. YouTube ruled in my favour. This is the infamous SunTV cli...