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In This Corner: Do kids still play with toys? Yes, MY toys!
The other day, one of my sons asked a seemingly silly question: do kids still play with toys? At first, I thought the question was weird, but as he explained, with all the electronic games and online distractions available, do kids still want and use hands-on toys? The teachers in
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Logic Fails
There’s a cartoon showing how many people still think that COVID-19 is just like chicken pox, and you aren’t likely to get a symptomatic infection another time while healthy, so they magically think a COVID infection will build herd immunity and eventually end the disease. It’s going to be just
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Fusion on Earth is Working, but Decades From Daily Use
There’s a big problem, however. Despite being able to do fusion, it’s not commercially viable, possibly for decades. This isn’t going to save us from fossil fuels in time like renewable power can this decade. Fusing Hydrogen into Helium takes a lot of energy, a lot of technology, and the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: FTX O’Leary Loves
Watched an AOC Facebook story that mentioned the freshly arrested head of FTX had admitted to donating as much to the GOP as he openly did to Democrats. Is that going to stop the GOP from musing that FTX was a Democrat plot? Former CPC leadership candidate and CBC TV
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Yes, Virginia, Supermarket Profits HAVE Expanded
Supermarket executives were up on Parliament Hill this week, appearing before the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food’s inquiry into food inflation grocery chain profits. They repeated the now-familiar argument that supermarkets have not caused food inflation, they have merely passed along higher input costs to their customers; their profit
Continue readingMagpie Brûlé: Magpie Brûlé is Dead! Long Live Magpie Brûlé!
Time for a New Start It’s been a while folks and it’s been quite the year here in 2022. While it’s still not done, there have been a lot of changes this year and with a few more weeks still to go before we hit 2023, I’ve decided to make
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Can’t Handle The Truth
One of the best doctors in the country, not only for the health services he provides, but for his outreach regarding the climate crisis, is Dr. Joe Vipond. Here he is explaining the current health crisis and what can be done about it, while many others in his field shirk
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Ontario’s Bolsonaro Acts on Bill 23, aka the ‘Bulldozer Bill’
Corruption, criminal disregard for the environment, tyrannical blocking of local councils. These are just a few issues with Bill 23 from Ontario’s Bolsonaro. The post Ontario’s Bolsonaro Acts on Bill 23, aka the ‘Bulldozer Bill’ first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Continue readingIn This Corner: The World Cup is over. For me, anyway
There is a silver lining to Canada’s abrupt and rather humbling dismissal from the FIFA World Cup … I won’t have to watch any more soccer. Oh, I might tune in to the odd game, just so I can feel like a member of the human race, since most of
Continue readingIn This Corner: Bad days for billionaires
Next time you’re paying $5 for a head of lettuce, consider this – things could be so much worse. You could be a billionaire. I mean, c’mon. These poor schlubs are losing hundreds of millions, even billions of dollars! Makes your problems seem kinda puny, right? Yep, these are not
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Why Drive A Gas Car When There Are EVs?
The following was given as a presentation to the Unitarian Fellowship of Regina. I enjoyed my time this morning after being invited to speak about Electric Vehicles. == Most adults in Regina have driven a car before, but fewer than 1 in 100 have an electric vehicle. As a driver,
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: A Short Break
Dear Readers: I’m working on a project so there will be no blog this week. However if you’d like to share your thoughts about the UCP’s latest missteps (there certainly are enough to choose from) feel free. See you next week. Susan
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: November
There are things going on. From absurd numbers of kids home sick from school, to the Grey Cup going on today in Regina. The most vocal civilian critic of the SaskParty’s support of abusive religious schools (who were teaching dinosaurs were around with Creationist people), had their home vandalized with
Continue readingIn This Corner: How TSN is hurting the Grey Cup, and the CFL
Once upon a time, most of Canada would gather around the ol’ RCA (or Philco, or Dumont, or Electrohome) to watch the Grey Cup game, the championship of the good ol’ Canadian Football League. It was one of the most Canadian things you could do, right up there with ordering
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Upon Reflection, Let Me Off This Ride
Here’s a frank account of what the last 3 years have held for hopes, dreams, and ultimately failures. I can’t disagree with his points. Here’s my summary. We went into the pandemic unprepared. Canada landfilled crates full of expired N95 masks stockpiles prior to needing them in 2020. Our leaders
Continue reading52 Ideas: On the Hon. Premier Smith, the Hon. Adrianna LaGrange and on the responsibility of MUSH Institutions: Did the Education Minister tell the Premier that Calgary Board of Education (CBE) could make changes?
I would love to be a fly on the wall when Alberta’s Minister of Education tells the Premier of Alberta that Alberta School Boards should be allowed to deal with viral outbreaks as they see fit. I would love to see the reaction of Premier Danielle Smith to one of
Continue readingIn This Corner: Grounded: one man’s airline hell
My son Scott recently experienced a truly dreadful experience trying to fly out of Ottawa. Here’s his blog … When I was a young man, I visited a friend of mine in Austin, Texas. One of the unpleasant byproducts of visiting The United States is dealing with the American airline
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Methane EMIT
There’s a European satellite watching for methane pollution. It spotted a big leak in Alberta. ISS has a camera called EMIT attached and it can see methane plumes on Earth. The data is public, but not as easy as surfing around like on Google Earth to map it. “Jan Gorski,
Continue readingIn This Corner: The U.S. is on the edge of madness. Can it happen here?
As a political junkie, I find elections fascinating. Unfortunately, we tend to have them only once every four years or so here (depending on the state of the bromance of Justin and Jagmeet), so if you want your fix of politics and elections, we must look to the Formerly-Good Ol’
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