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Scott Stinson: How WiFi ate Simcoe County’s brain
When I first saw the headlines this week about a group of Simcoe County, Ont., parents asking their local school board to turn off its WiFi network, I assumed they were concerned that wireless signals...
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Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: Enough with the official apologies?
Hello Muddah, hello Fadduh… Parliament Hill is so peaceful with the MPs away at summer camp. In an excellent column in the Ottawa Citizen, Susan Riley suggests Michael Ignatieff’s generally...
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Scott Stinson: The problem with the WiFi “debate”
‘It’s invisible, but it’s everywhere,” intoned Peter Mansbridge at the top of a report on CBC’s The National that aired Wednesday. “Actually, it’s even all around me, here, right now,” he said. What...
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Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: Breivik and the ‘clash of civilizations’
Dealing with Breivik The Toronto Star‘s Haroon Siddiqui finds it a tad hypocritical that people who refuse to respect the ideological diversity among Muslims — who demand all publicly condemn...
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Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: A terrorist and his influences
Taking a deep breath The post-Oslo freakout continues, most notably everywhere other than in Norway. “No one is to blame for [Anders Behring Breivik] finding motivation where he could,” writes the...
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National Post editorial board: Spreading wireless panic
Getty ImagesContrary to what Elizabeth May says on twitter, wifi is not hurting our children. Last year, Benita Schluschen, a middle-aged woman from Qualicum Beach, B.C., wrote a letter to The Canadian...
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Chris Selley: Wifi is amazingly, fantastically awesome and safe
The Toronto Star provided an object lesson in annoying science reporting yesterday, with an alarmingly slapdash little article noting that while “Ontario school board officials” and the City of Toronto...
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National Post editorial board: Getting a whiff of WiFi paranoia
You know life is good in Canada when pampered suburbanites have the time and energy to act on bogus health scares. Case in point: This week, a group of parents in suburban Toronto actually kept their...
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Chris Selley: With friends like these, the homeless don’t need enemies
In Austin, Tex., this week, during the South by Southwest technology conference, marketing firm BBH Labs paid homeless people a minimum of $50 a day, plus 100% of donations they solicited, to operate...
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Jonathan Kay: From Quebec electro-experts, the perfect antidote for...
The invented ailment of “electro-sensitivity” is a hypochondriac’s dream. Electrical fields are ubiquitous in any urban society, and their effects on the human body are imagined to be mysterious. Many...
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Robyn Urback: Former Microsoft Canada head joins bizarre fight to protect...
Concerned parents touting brochures about the dangers of wireless routers found an ally last week in former Microsoft Canada president Frank Clegg. Clegg, who worked at Microsoft for 14 years before...
View ArticleDonkeys used as WiFi hotspots to add web surfing to Holy Land tour
HOSHAYA, Israel — It was nothing like this 3,000 years ago. An Israeli attraction meant to immerse tourists in an authentic, ancient biblical experience has outfitted its donkeys with wireless routers....
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Big three mobile carriers stand in the way of company’s plan to bring...
Hold the phone, save your texts, and keep those tweets in draft — a much-discussed plan to extend cellular service into Toronto’s underground subway system may not proceed as planned if Canada’s big...
View ArticleWhy Toronto city councillor Josh Matlow wants free wifi in public spaces
In this occasional feature, the National Post tells you everything you need to know about a complicated issue. Today, Megan O’Toole examines the push by Councillor Josh Matlow to install free public...
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Attacks on science: Canadian municipalities often more likely to listen to...
Last month, a meeting of all B.C.’s municipalities voted to outlaw genetically engineered (GE) food. From canola to soy to corn, ruled the politicians, not one ounce of lab-designed food should be...
View ArticleWi-Fi in the wild: Canada’s national parks plan to add wireless access in...
OTTAWA — The quiet solitude and refuge from the connected world that many Canadians yearn for will soon be no more in dozens of Canada’s wilderness zones. Parks Canada wants to install wireless...
View ArticleChris Selley: Embrace the WiFi miracle
Whenever the wireless revolution spreads — to subway trains, to intercity trains, to airplanes and soon, as the Calgary Herald reported last week, to some of Canada’s national parks — the reaction...
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Saudi Arabian scholar issues fatwa against naughty neighbours who steal WiFi...
A Saudi scholar issued a fatwa against using another person’s WiFi without permission, since theft cannot be tolerated in Islam.Mosa'ab Elshamy/The Associated PressA Muslim pilgrim prays on a rocky...
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Travellers fret about WiFi, but it might be about to get better
When it comes to travel, Internet access has never been more ubiquitous — or more underwhelming. Don’t take my word for it. Just ask Wendy Lewis, who says she spends a good part of every trip trying —...
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