LONDON, ON (The Skwib) — Yesterday the writer of the popular blog, Prawned! was found draped across his keyboard, unconscious. Patrick Jones, aka Dedred S., was pronounced dead at the scene by the medical examiner. Jones was known as an insightful and amusing commentator on the gaming and shrimping industries, and appeared as a regular […]
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Trashy's World: Life and death in the digital age…
Life… An Ottawa-area woman live streamed the birth of her third child early Sunday. Nancy Salgueiro, a chiropractor and childbirth educator, gave birth to a six pound, 10 ounce boy at 3:18 a.m. Ms. Salgueiro posted on her Facebook page that she is still deciding on the spelling of her new son’s name. And death…. […]
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The Lawyers Win
There are no winners in the upcoming legal battle between tobacco companies that hid the dangers of smoking, and the governments who regulated and once encouraged the use of the cancer causing drug. The losers are clearly the Canadian taxpayers, and everyone who has lost a loved one to the normalization of a deadly addiction. […]
The Happy Wanderer: 9/11 anniversary
Today we stop and think of the people who dies 10 years ago in the terrorist attack done by 19 people that killed more than 3000 people, and also the people who stooped a plane from killing thousands more by trying to take control away from t…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Who else has had a State Funeral in Canada?
The Government of Canada has a website for its funerals. Here’s a bit of history trivia for you to catch up on. Many of the names I do not know. It appears in the 1930s, funerals were extended to Ministers and Govenors General. One could probably kill quite a bit of time looking through Wikipedia […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Good-night Sweet Prince
It’s a sombre morning for much of Canada, as millions are contemplating the vastly changed federal political landscape. Okay, okay, tens of thousands are contemplating it, more realistically given voting patterns. Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. – Shakespeare That quote always reminds me […]
The Happy Wanderer: Farewell
Yesterday it was reported that Jack Layton has passed away. I may not agree with Layton politically, but he was someone who you just had to admire. he kept running in many elections even though he lost before numerous of times. My best wishes to his fa…
Continue readingWill the NDP opposition crumble now that Jack is no longer with us?
I awoke today thinking it was going to be a beautiful Monday, with plenty of free coffee at work, a hearty lunch after twelve and no crises to deal with during my shift. Boy was I wrong. I realized it was a chilly temperature for August as soon as I …
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RIP Jack Layton #CancerTagFail
If we make it to September, Everything’s gonna be alright I know, It’s the coldest time of Summer, And Canada mourns the MP from Toronto. If we make it to September, Everything’s changing here come Question Time, Especially next election, If we make it to September we’ll be fine. -On obvious nod to Merle Haggard […]
Things Are Good: Jack Layton 1950-2011
Jack Layton passed away this morning and I feel that in his passing we need to remember all the good that he has done for Canada. Obviously, it is in no way a good thing that Canada has lost such a strong and inspiring leader, but it is up to Canadians now to keep his […]
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Mountaintop Removal Mining Directly Linked To 60,000 Cancer Cases In Appalachia
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A new study from the Journal of Community Health concludes that cancer rates in areas of Appalachia where mountaintop removal mining (MTR) is taking place are more th…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Ocean Breakdown
Its been nice knowing (almost) all of you. The tiny bits of plastic at the bottom of the ocean poisoning the food chain, and the floaty bits on top of it in the garbage patch choking the birds and dolphins ought to finish us all off in about 50 years or less. If there was […]
Five of Five: Life is Bigger than Politics
News was released today that former Alberta Premier Ralph Klein is suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. This is a horrible disease that has no cure and robs the body and brain of oxygen. It doesn’t have good outcomes.It got me thinking…
Continue readingSaskatchewan exports death
Jim Harding documented the uranium trail to the deathfields of Iraq in his book, Canada’s Deadly Secret . The Dominion now reports on increased birth defects and cancers in the children of Iraq: “Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Rat…
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