Craft Brewers Revive Local Economies
A bunch of towns in the USA have had to close their manufacturing plants as free trade and the global economy transplant jobs elsewhere. This has left a lot of…
July 2011
Now There’s a Clever Thought
Those Japanese are just so damned smart!Taking a page out of the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster, Japanese authorities have decided that other reactors must pass a tsunami test before reopening.…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Trish Hennessy's latest Numbers consist of a comparison between Canada and other OECD countries...featuring some great news on the social front:84Percentage of Canadians, on…
Octo-Mom gives interview to “Today” show of NBC
Besides the Octo-Mom the host Ann Curry has her handfuls as 9 kids run all over the set. It is a fun video. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news,…
The Very Face of Corruption
This is what the Corrupter Incarnate looks like and it's not pretty. Anything he touches, including the Wall Street Journal, turns to slime. Anything he creates, like FOX News, is…
Canada boycotts arms meeting
I rarely agree with the Harper Government on anything. But on this one, I do. We have every right, indeed the duty, to boycott a disarmament conference if the country…
God in Canada and Socialism in the NDP
Do preambles affect the meaning of constitutions? If they do, it's not just the NDP that will have a decision to make, so will every Canadian.Where just a month ago…
On top priorities
Of course, a national energy strategy could be a huge plus if it includes some recognition of environmental issues and other concerns beyond immediate profits. But let's just say there's…
Ten year water lily
Filed under: good stuff, photo Tagged: water lily
140 Law – Legal Headlines for July 11, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:2011 ABA Technology Survey suggests around 300,000 U.S. lawyers use an iPhone, around 130,000 use an iPad -http://goo.gl/SdB8d Indy grand…
The adventures of Angry McPointy on the world stage
Canada continues to distinguish itself by taking principled stands on foreign policy: Canada plans to boycott the United Nations conference on disarmament to protest North Korea's selection as conference chair,…
Venues Cancel On Lord Monckton
No longer a big draw in the U.K, Climate Change Denier Chris Monckton (3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley) has spend the last couple of summers touring the former colonies. This…
Even space is full of trash
"Space junk is said to be the No. 1 threat facing the space station in the coming decade. More than 500,000 pieces of orbiting debris are being tracked, according to…
Stop The Meter Comes to Fruition: Canadians Will Engage in Hearing In Historic Numbers
UBB_Meter_101101.png July 11, 2011 – Thousands of Canadians will be tuning into the CRTC hearings on usage-based billing today, during which one of Canada's most prolific citizen engagement org...
Heat and Books
A high today of 33 (91.4F) with humidex that will be in the 40′s (100′s). So although I thought that I would be blogging up a storm after I handed…
The United States: Classless Coiuntry of Equality?
One of the strange things about the US (and to a lesser extent Canada) is the way this supposeodly classless society dumps on people who would be considered on the…
U2 vid – the opening number
Shaky vid taken with my iPhone… but that was due to the stands which were shaking and swaying through the whole show! T’was a bit unnerving but once things kicked…
The Danger Of Getting Too Close To Royalty
After the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge left Canada to bask in the glow of Hollywood, the Prime Minister chose to do some basking of his own. Speaking in Calgary…
what i’m reading: cradle of gold, story of re-discovery of machu picchu
One hundred years ago, this week - July 7, 1911, to be exact - an American man named Hiram Bingham found the ruins of an ancient ceremonial city, mostly overgrown…