There have been allegations that wind turbines kill birds and thus are a negative power system overall. Science to the rescue! Ornithologists have completed a study about migratory birds and how well they fare around wind farms. The answer? Birds are fine. The study, which is published in the Journal
Continue readingTrashy's World: Slowest app on my phone…
… by a mile… Fix this. No app should take 1 minute plus to load!!! Now back to your regular station. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: And For Those Who Still Have Faith In Barack Obama…
Read this and, as they say, weep. Recommend this Post
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Yet ANOTHER Poll, This Time Ontario – 34% PC, 31% NDP, 29% Liberal
However I can’t confirm the numbers 100% since its hearsay from Ontario News Watch, but they say its an Angus Reid poll and it shows the Ontario Liberals in third place. Angus Reid (Ontario):Prog Cons: 34% – 46 seatsNew Dems: 31% – 32 seatsOnt. Liberals: 29% – 29 seats Greens:
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: My camera survived!
This was the last photograph I took on Sunday before going ass-over-tea-kettle into the waters of the Tay River’s Grant’s Creek at Allan Mills. I then walked across the arched, stone bridge I’ve photographed on other occasions to get to the other side of the creek. In order to get
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Turning up the volume over cuts to CBC by Paula Arab
CBC boss Hubert Lacroix warns the 10 per cent cut will mean “a very different public broadcaster,” with less original programming, more reruns and the introduction of commercials on radio.
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Second Quebec Poll Shows Traditional Parties Laughing
Which is a shame, as noted in the last post’s comments. Forum Research: Parti québécois: 39% – 69 seats Parti libéral: 34% – 50 seats Coalition Avenir: 18% – 4 seats Québec solidaire: 6% – 2 seats Parti vert: 4% Forum has an odd habit whereby it shows both the
Continue readingwRanter.com: Attacking public sector workers is a bad idea
During economic downturns, people have a tendency to turn on one another. We blame victims and eat our own. I’ve been alive long enough to have seen it more than once before. It’s wrong, but I get it. The urge to help one’s fellow human during times of trouble gets
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Coalition targets CBC’s free music site by Steve Ladurantaye
Columnist says a number of Canadian media companies have joined forces to try to shut down a free music website recently launched by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., claiming it threatens to ruin the music business for all of them.
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: sparks will fly as party leaders take off their gloves at tonight’s “make or break” televised debate.
The televised leaders' debate starts tonight at 6:30pm. Tonight’s hotly anticipated televised Leaders’ Debate will be the first time that the four main party leaders have debated each other in this format. All eyes will be on Progressive Conservative Premier Alison Redford and Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith, but do
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Proposed local CBC Radio station placed in doubt
The CBC has announced the proposed new station which was to open in the Kitchener area this fall will be delayed by “a few months.”
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Re: Advertising on CBC Radio 2 & Espace Musique
FRIENDS encourages the CRTC to reject a CBC proposal to place ads on Radio 2 & Espace Musique and instead proceed with the long-delayed review of the overall licensing of the Corporation’s networks and services.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia.ca lauds proposed measures to protect Ontario cell phone users
openmedia_logo.jpg April 12, 2012 – Today, the Ontario government announced plans to adopt measures to protect cell phone users. Grassroots group OpenMedia.ca is lauding these measures, noting that with only three large companies controlling 94 percent of the cell phone market in Canada, there simply isn’t enough choice to ensure
Continue readingtheKrellant.ca: Support the Krellant and Homeless Whackos Everywhere!
My fellow seekers of the Cat Truth, Please take a moment to send the Honourable Jim Flaherty a short request. Besides a bit of shameless Flaherty flattery, the following petition asks him not to cut the Community Access Program, which has helped community centres and libraries across the country with
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: DND to shut down 5 Wing base housing #nlpoli
From David Pugliese at the Ottawa Citizen: ■ Military housing at Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg will be shut down. The story appeared on April 11. Biggest take away from that right up front is that all those Conservative promises for the last half dozen years
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: What should we focus on going forward?: Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
Hello! Here’s Lindsey with your update: read more
Continue readingThe Vagina Chronicles: Forget the old school look, check out the amazing new vagina color lightening cream
You see this is why I love the internet, where else can you find news on some of the most ridiculous shit in the world today? And since the net’s trend this year is to inundate readers with what I call the vagina flood, I thought I’d start a regular
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Greening of the Season, Greening of the Landscape: the Importance of Trees
We’re almost to the point when the trees will leaf out, two weeks or more ahead of usual. The importance of trees has been unlined this week in two stories in The New York Times. One is a hymn to a new vertical green wall in Mexico City, which is
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On Corruption and Political Disengagement
Last night I had a long telephone conversation with my good friend Dave, who lives in Winnipeg. Like me (and probably more so), Dave has a keenly developed sense of justice and fair play, and when those values are violated, he is outraged. Last evening, as he was telling me
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 12: as anyone could have predicted……
It was a restaurant in Guanzhou, China. I couldn’t speak enough Chinese to order anything. (My Chinese is limited to “Excuse me, foreigh devil.”) The waiter couldn’t speak English. So he brought me sweet and sour pork. (They’ve learned that’s a safe bet with westerners.) I didn’t eat there again.
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