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To face the music. This has dragged on for a long, long, looooooonnnng time. May be I will run into him at the Chinese buffet this week and I can ask him. WFDS

Teddy here to let you know CBC has opened up a NS votes page:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nsvotes2013/listing the vote date at May 21st. This comes as a surprise to me, as I have indeed been following NS to see when the election is, and this date seems too soon. I will investigate and

Maxim is a men’s rag that yearly puts out a list of what it considers to be the 100 best looking women in the world. Manti Te’o’ is a former linebacker for Notre Dame who was drafted by San Diego a few weeks ago.  Even if you are not a

The Hype ……. The Reality ……. “Saskatchewan may be creating thousands of new jobs, but most are held by migrant workers according to a recent study by the Canadian Labour Congress. Between 2008 and 2011, 65 per cent of “net new jobs created” were held by temporary foreign workers, the

Let’s say you’ve got a neighbour and your neighbour has a really big bulldozer and your neighbour becomes fond of using that bulldozer late at night to dig seemingly random holes.   Chances are that guy’s nuts. Port Angeles, Washington resident Barry Swegle is a logging contractor and, you guessed it,

1000 women in Bangladesh buried alive. They had been locked into a ramshackle building to ensure they would stay for their full, long work hours to ensure they really earned their $38 a month. And it collapsed. That should not have suprised anybody. Women have been abused, overworked, underpaid, crippled, killed

 It seems standard these days that survivors of traumatic incidents of man-made or natural disaster are quickly whisked into trauma counselling.   It seems pretty intuitive – people are traumatized, people get counselling. A report from The Observer claims new studies show counselling can actually worsen mental health outcomes for trauma

This is what can happen when Conservatives become too full of themselves. Britain’s Conservative government is openly talking about privatizing the Royal Mail, a crown corporation, and not just going private with it but selling it to offshore buyers. [Britain’s business minister, Michael] Fallon said the government would sell Royal

There’s a very useful, and usefully concise, primer on climate sensitivity in The Guardian.  It runs through the major ambiguities, probabilities and mere possibilities and deserves a quick read. To pique your interest, here are the final three paragraphs. So far we’re about 40% of the way to doubling atmospheric

 There’s nothing magical in reaching a record 400 ppm concentration of atmospheric CO2 but it’s not symbolic either.  It’s a benchmark of how far we’ve come and where we’re headed.  It allows us to examine the changes in our environment, to our biosphere, for example that have occurred since we