The Fox News Effect: Sea Level Edition
ff-20110127-globalwarming.jpg Climate scientists--and other scientists--are always improving and updating their methods. That's how science works. And it's a very good and honorable thing--or at ...
2011
Killing Off Our Oceans
In the coming decade we're in for a rude reminder of something we've forgotten - how dependent civilization is on our oceans.A report will be released in a few days…
When did the Conservatives buy the Globe & Mail?
It looks like Stephen Harper's threat against Canada's media is already paying dividends. When G&M writer Bill Curry wrote this puff piece yesterday, strategically placed in the Globe to soften…
In Toronto this weekend?
Then you might be interested in attending this: From Hands Off Venezuela’s e-mail list, the details: Subject: Please on the the 24thshow your solidarity with Venezuela! Sent by the Louis…
Obama Impersonator Backfires On GOP
A Republican forum in Louisiana hoped to get a few shots in at the Democratic president by hiring an Obama impersonator. It was all chuckles until the comic began making…
Where did your rights come from?
What have unions done for people? Its something we often forget. Many of us don't remember the days when vacations were unpaid, sick leave was unpaid, weekends were for working,…
CBC Radio column: RIM stock dives, what’s next for the BlackBerry maker?
It looks like my predictions about Blockbuster and RIM are coming true. In this alberta@noon column on CBC Radio One with host Donna McElligott I discuss what options are available…
Paul Ryan Lies About Ending Oil Subsidies To Protect His Family’s Cash Bonanza
Paul-Ryan-airquotes.jpg Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been all over the place when it comes to ending the multi-billion dollar subsidies that the oil industry receives every year. While he...
Vertical Integration hearings: Bolting the barn door after the horse has already left the stable
Written for The Globe And Mail The CRTC’s hearings on vertical integration begin Monday. For the next two weeks, this means that the four major vertically integrated media companies in…
Let’em Eat – Geese
Urban areas in North America these days are plagued by masses of unwanted Canada geese - birds that have abandoned their migratory ways for the comforts or urban living. They…
A Gearhead in the 21st Century
I love driving, absolutely love it. Not the trip to the mall or voyage to the in-laws sort of driving. I'm talking about the sheer joy of negotiating an empty…
What Are the Bees Telling Us?
Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? A documentary on the global honeybee crisis coming to Vancouver June 24-30@ Denman Cinema: 1779 Comox Street - find out…
Banning floor crossing is a bad idea
I think Peter Stoffer is coming from a good place and I think his intentions are pure, but I feel strongly that banning floor crossing is a bad idea that,…
Illegal for Teachers too Talk about Homos
Time to allow teachers to do their job and protect all students In Canada and the USA. More on Publicly funded Catholic Schools in Ontario soon, where they have banned…
Spider
- I found this fellow in my bag after I was out picking rose petals. The Internet and WWW are changing, and maybe not for the better. In the olden…
Pro soccer comes to Ottawa!
Even though we have known that this was coming for some time (tough to keep a secret of any kind in Ottawa), I am ecstatic to see a NASL team…
China or Greece: Which Is The Next Lehman Brothers?
Back in 2007, when the US Fed let the 100-year old Lehman Brothers investment bank go belly up, it was like a blasting cap that blew apart the global economy.…
We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming
Everything seems to be in order. I have now, single-handedly proven the SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS that if you bitch, moan, and kvetch about something hard enough and long enough, that thing…
My lovebird proposed to me
We had perfect weather here in Ottawa yesterday, which only happens about once every 42 years. It was sunny and warm, not hot, with a cool breeze, and the humidity…
Visualizing how everything in Beijing is built at a Las Vegas scale
One of the things that struck me most about Beijing was the sheer size of everything. Beijing, it often seems, is built at a Las Vegas scale - the buildings,…