We Need to Talk
In some ways my late dad was not a deep thinker. Just crawling out from under the Great Depression and severe wounds from combat in WWII likely had more than…
2011
Is This Actually BC? Eh?
I know the news is now somewhat old, but there was a funky Forum Research poll out on December 15th that showed the situation in British Columbia is a whole…
Majority supports Keystone XL, or do they?
Wetland oil spill – Evi, Alberta Vancouver Sun headlines: U.S. majority supports controversial Keystone XL pipeline project: poll “A majority of U.S. voters still support TransCanada Corp’s controversial Keystone XL…
Laureen Harper’s Big Opportunity
Laureen and Stephen Harper. Even though it has been Ottawa’s worst kept secret for years, the rumour (which in all likelihood has some truth to it) that Laureen Harper has…
A Happy Birthday for Haiti
So I’ve just turned 45. What a sweet age! Instead of asking people to only bring a quirky 45rpm record to my party next month, I’d rather give people an…
Blaming the borrower and not the devil, in this case the banks
There’s been a recent concerning trend of conservatives blaming the general public for what they call reckless spending and borrowing. These right-wingers often say things like: Well, you borrowed the…
The Year In Dirty Energy: Coal
coal_mining.jpg Most children already have a fear of coal – after all, they are threatened during childhood that if they misbehave, Santa Claus will leave them nothing but a lump…
George Wright will not be Extradited: Portugal’s Supreme Court Confirms Decision of Lisbon Court’s Refusal of US Extradition Demand
Article by Jürgen Heiser, published in Junge Welt (29.12.2011): In the case of former US citizen, George Wright, Portugal’s Supreme Court ruled to deny an appeal made by the US…
Last Poll of 2011 – 36.5% Con, 28.7% NDP, 25.6% Lib
This is, of course, a lovely Nanos poll which shows the Liberals somewhat dropping from heights we shouldn’t be at in our current state to more-or-less reasonable levels, though as…
Rainbow Pipeline Leak — Eight Months Later…
It has been 8 months since Plains Midstream Canada reported that there had been a Rainbow Pipeline leak, 100 km NE of Peace River, Alberta. As of December 2, 2011,…
Writing letters to the Editor
I have had success with letters to the editor. Generally I get about two in three published. But for a long time I got nothing printed. The key, I learned,…
Finally Cold–Ice Ferns on the Window This Morning
It finally turned cold last night, adn this morning the windows were covered with frost, even though they are double glazed. Or rather, they are double glazed since Monday. The…
Stephen Harper and the War on the Unemployed
You don’t have to be a weatherman, or an economist, to know that a cold wind is blowing in Harperland, and that a recession could be just around the corner.…
A day with my closest living relatives…
Which would be chimpanzees of course! I am in fact 98% chimp… and so are you. Can you see the resemblance? Its like looking in a mirror that is 98%…
Black-headed weaver
Amazing little birds that weave basket like nests. Building a nest: Leaving in search of more nesting material: Taken in Bigodi, Uganda. Related posts (randomly generated) Suit could follow any…
The problem with that term limit proposal
I don’t really mean to add to the pile-on over Belinda Stronach’s editorial in the Globe and Mail proposing term limits for MPs, and Paul Wells does a really good…
Can you share this ?
Dear Massimo, Here is how the Wikipedia fundraiser works: Every year we raise just the funds that we need, and then we stop. Because you and so many other Wikipedia…
Naked people, bodily fluids and criminal squirrels kept Chatham-Kent police busy in 2011
News of the truly weird: http://www.nationalpost.com/m/news/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/28/naked-people-bodily-fluids-and-criminal-squirrels-kept-chatham-kent-police-busy-in-2011
The Spin.
AllTheHardLandingsThatFit BCFerriesVille So. BC Ferries AND Keith Baldrey are both (surprise!) telling us that we should just make like Bobby McFerrin when we find ourselves worrying our pretty little heads…