Two photos just sent to me by François Couture — thanks! Windi Earthworm, photo by François COUTURE, circa 1979 Windi Earthworm, photo by François COUTURE, circa 1979 on the main Kersplebedeb website: http://ift.tt/1OamMhN
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Saskatchewan Needs a Real Change of Destination
Greg is making a good point in his latest column, but I had to throw in a Green campaign slogan into the title in good fun. The bottom line really is that the Sask Party is propping up the dying fossil fuels industry, while calls to divest from it are
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The world has much more coal, oil and gas in the ground than it can safely burn. That much is physics. Watch this compelling, factual argument about how to solve the climate crisis. I first became aware of this straightforward idea after watching Do The Math by 350.org run by
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Don’t Be A Scared Tool
Here’s a song for radicalized Canadians to sing. I’m white and scared (clap clap) They want my guns (clap clap) And veils are wrong (clap clap) Except on nuns! (clap clap) “I’m white and scared (clap clap) you know it’s true (clap clap) I’m scared of terror (clap clap) Because
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Syriza – a Necessary Compromise or Avoiding an Inevitable Conclusion?
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Continue readingLeft Over: A Secular Choice…..and the Right to Choose
Niqab controversy: Judge struck down ban without referring to charter Zunera Ishaq, a Pakistani woman and devout Muslim, seeks to wear niqab during citizenship oath By Mark Gollom, CBC News Posted: Mar 16, 2015 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: Mar 16, 2015 5:20 AM ET An intelligent decision by this judge,
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: The Juncker Plan for Economic Recovery in Europe
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Continue readingTerahertz: It’s all been done
The current UK election cycle seems like much of the past 20 years of Canadian politics is just being played over again. In no particular order, here’s the similarities I can already see, please add your own in the comments. The rise of regional separtist parties The Bloc Quebecois swept
Continue readingIn This Corner: Stuff happens, week 10: Jim gives in; Taber gets trashed.
As soon as the legislature resumed on Tuesday, the Prentice government did a complete about-face in its opposition to gay-straight alliances in schools, introducing amendments to Bill 10 to allow the alliances when requested. The Bill 10 kerfuffle was a self-inflicted wound that Prentice has now stitched up, hoping there
Continue readingEh Types: Mr. Harper’s Veiled Threats
What do you call a solution without a problem? If you’re Stephen Harper, you call it an election strategy. The Conservative government has been proposing solutions in desperate need of problems. That they do so at all, and the manner in which they do is ironically a big problem. Last
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Victory! Shaka Zulu Transferred!
Comrades and those who are fast becoming Comrades – We have a victory! Our enemy buckled under the People Power you sent there way. We in NABPP-PC say that unity passes through struggle. Hopefully these last 60 days brought you all closer to realizing that the Power of the People
Continue readingTerahertz: Support an amended Bill C-264 in Canada
In February, Bill C-624 an Act to Amend the National Anthem Act (gender) received second reading in Canada’s House of Commons. This bill, put forward by Liberal MP for Ottawa—Vanier Mauril Bélanger, would replace the words “thy sons” with “of us” in Canada’s national anthem. This would correct the gender imbalance in the
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Will Podemos rescue Spain’s unemployed youths?
Originally posted on Fortune: Earlier this year, the electoral victory of Syriza in Greece marked the first government elected within the troubled eurozone to finally say no to European officials who for years have been pressing for less government spending and for sweeping economic reforms to remake Europe. While many
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: “I have looked at the numbers.” – PM about Wallin’s Expenses
Pamela Wallin’s disgrace has been taking place in slow motion, with the latest chapter hitting headlines again. “In terms of Sen. Wallin, I have looked at the numbers,” Harper told the House of Commons two weeks ago. “Her travel costs are comparable to any parliamentarian travelling [sic] from that particular
Continue readingCalgary Grit: Communications
Here’s a fun exercise for aspiring communications directors out there. Complete the following sentence, in a way that isn’t offesnive: “I’m going to put this in terms of colours but it’s not meant to be about race…”. Now try that, using the words “whities” and “brown people”.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: THE EURO, THE DRACHMA AND GREECE: limited options in an impossible situation
Jean-Francois Ponsot Associate Professor of Economics, Université de Grenoble (France) and Louis-Philippe Rochon Associate Professor of Economics, Laurentian University (Canada) Co-Editor, Review of Keynesian Economics ___________________ The final agreement between Greece and the Eurogroup is a disappointment for anyone who held high hopes that Greece would have taken away more
Continue readingIn This Corner: Stuff happens, week 9: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the dumbest of them all?
The halo over Jim Prentice is getting more and more tarnished. Prentice, who has been on a PR offensive over his upcoming budget and unnecessary and illegal election, put his foot in it on CBC Radio on Thursday. Prentice told listeners that when it comes to Alberta’s economic woes, everyone
Continue readingTerahertz: SecularStudents.ca – Does anyone want to maintain Canadian Secular Students?
In 2007, I helped found the University of Alberta Atheists and Agnostics. That student group that is still running today. A rare accomplishment as many student groups, particularly those for the non-religious, struggle to survive for more than a few years as the students who established the group graduate, move
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Solar PV Nearing Grid Parity
Cambridge and #PWC [PDF] say #solar PV will be at grid parity on most of Earth, in only 2 years! “It is clear that renewables will be an established and significant part of the future energy mix, in the [Gulf] region and globally.” Regina’s potential ranks about 6th in the
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