Steven Joniak – the Blog

1) So THE day is here, July 11th and the iPhone is officially available in Canada – too bad Robbers, er Rogers is the one company that can support it. Seriously, Canada has the MOST expensive and LEAST feature full plans IN THE WORLD! So until that changes and some form of sanity sinks in, I’ll stick with my already expensive Treo plan with Bell. The Toronto Star has a great summary of Pros & Cons here.

2) CBC.ca had this headline for a top story today:

2 of 5 feet found on B.C. coast belong to same man: RCMP [link]

Now is it me, or does it sound funny to claim the 2 of 5 belong to the same man – I mean the real story would be if ALL 5 belonged to 1 man, don’t you think?

3) What?! CNN.com has a lead story on CANADA?! Specifically about the Alberta Oil Sands [link]

4) Ah yes, now that’s more like it CNN – completely unbiased, riveting and true American-no-nonsense reporting – ‘Are You Black Enough?’ … God bless America – dayum!

5) HOW CAN AMERICANS PASS THIS LAW SO EASILY?! Even Obama caved and supported it (but Hilary didn’t!) [Obama link] , [Bush passes law, ACLU sues link]

So you say ‘I’m Canadian, why do I care?’ – simple, look at how the US influenced the recent changes of our own Copyright laws to be much in line with the pro-Corporation/screw-Consumer rhetoric of their DMCA policy – its only a matter of time when Harper and gang hop along the US express to invade ALL aspects of our lives ‘for the good of the justice & liberty’.

Doesn’t it look like 2008 is looking so like Orwell’s 1984?

6) HELLBOY – HELL YA! [Review link] This summer is packed with so many good movies, and so far Iron Man and Wanted have NOT disappointed me at all! The trailer is below:

I don’t know what’s going on lately but I’ve been having almost daily star sightings around the city.

First I see what looked like Gene Simmons and his daughter driving a red Ferrari convertible through Yorkville over the weekend while I was standing in line to grab a Starbucks Iced Chai (love those – perfect summer drink!) – though mind you, my glasses were off at the time so I could be mistaken, but Gene is pretty distinctive.

Then I’m walking along Dundas West and I see the whole crew from Colin and Justin’s Home Heist over in Cornerstone – an amazing antique and furniture sourcing store. I missed the duo as they were leaving just as I was walking up the street but bumped into the crew who were still filming in the store – Cheryl, the show’s ‘get-it-done’ designer looks even better in person – but everyone looked busy doing their thing and didn’t want to interrupt, so I just had a look around the store (so much cool stuff! Wish I had the budget for some of the pieces there).

Is it all dumb luck or a sign of things to come?