Today the Governor General inducted 37 new Canadians into the Order of Canada. For various reasons I wanted to watch it live today and assumed that our trustworthy Canadian CBC would be showing it.

As I watched the CBC (and quickly checked all the other 200 channels I get), the following news apparently took precedence over even mentioning the Order of Canada:

• The Oscars
• The Dem Debate (how many times do we need to hear that Hillary has to win Texas and Ohio?)
• A cube of water in Beijing for the Olympics
• J-Lo had twins (OMG!)
• The Weather

I know it’s not possible to expect any of these things to take a back seat to Canada thanking Canadians who made a real difference in the world but you’d think at least the CBC would pay some lip service to this event… I was really hoping for a live broadcast but I guess I’m just too unrealistic.

Buggerer! I got my Rogers Wireless bill on the same day that Valleywag posted this information about wireless plans offered by Verizon:

$99 - Unlimited voice  

$120 - Unlimited voice, SMS text messaging, MMS picture messaging

$140 - Unlimited voice, SMS, MMS, VZNav, VCAST, email

$150 - Unlimited voice, SMS, MMS, and data)

$170 - Unlimited voice, SMS, MMS, and international data)

My Rogers bill was $103 this month before adding on things like long-distance charges or taxes and trust me, I don’t get unlimited anything. How much longer must consumers bare this type treatment? We aren’t stupid, we know we’re getting screwed and none of the “powers that be” seem to want to take action to change it. In fact, the generally seem to want to continue to see consumers get screwed.

Back at Queen’s I did quite a few extra-curricular activities. One of the things I did do is produce some software for the AMS (student government). It makes it feasible to run elections using preferential balloting. I was happy to find out that it’s still being used.

Good times… I guess I get to keep my engineering degree.