Canadians Should Envy Greeks
Canadians aren’t too envious of Greeks, Italians, and Egyptians right now, but maybe they should be. Though Canada has a relatively better economy and a stable political system, the other…
July 2012
4873…Lord Stanley Visits Quebec
Sadly only a visit. Global News reports that Jonathan Bernier, the number two goalie with the Los Angeles Kings, brought the Stanley Cup home to Laval earlier today. Laval is…
X-Flare from Large Sunspot #skstorm
The probability of nifty northern lights in a couple nights from now, is significant. I happened to be out taking a photo of the very large sunspot facing Earth, since…
Plastic bills: Spend them before they melt
Honestly, you have to be pretty dumb to put plastic currency on a toaster oven. Seriously, it's made of plastic — it'll melt. (Unlike the old paper money that would…
Molly’sBlog 2012-07-12 21:30:00
DRIVING AROUND WINNIPEG:PERCEPTUAL EXPECTANCY As you drove over the Slaw Rebchuk bridge from downtown Winnipeg to the North End you were greeted for years by the “Welcome To The North…
Muskrat Falls carts, horses, chickens and eggs #nlpoli
All the Twitter commentary on Thursday about Muskrat Falls and mining prompted your humble e-scribbler to go back and do some checking about who said what when. Sure enough, the…
Obama and the War of the Billionaires
When I watch this ad, I am reminded that the U.S. presidential election is now less than four months away. And how the right-wing billionaire's club that paid for it…
RE: Fiscal “Crisis” In Context: Two Indicators
I’ve enjoyed reading the Progressive Economics Forum, they’ve had many great posts and analysis but a post put out today titled “Fiscal “Crisis” In Context: Two Indicators” has me strongly…
Another Open Letter to MP John Weston on Tankers, Salmon – from his Constituent, Rafe Mair
I’m going to get right down to cases, John. You have disappointed me in that I thought that you might just buck the system and stand up for your province…
New Zealand pushes back against TPP agreement; calls for a “fair deal”
Momentum is building for the StopTheTrap.net campaign, as new initiatives are being launched to oppose the criminalizing and invasive provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. One of our international coalition…
And so it begins…
Thanks, Rob. OTTAWA — An outspoken Alberta Conservative MP is condemning his own government’s decision to spend $2.5 million on a new visitor centre honouring Canadian doctor and communist supporter…
The Oil Industry and Pipelines – What the NDP has been saying all along
Calgary Herald: NDP Leader Mulcair says oilsands access should be opened up, but not with new pipeline Yes. A better/cleaner/safer plan all around would be to process this stuff in…
Just because we can build a seawall extension doesn’t mean we should
July 12, 2012. 4:00 pm • Section: OpinionThe Province, Vancouver BC There has been some discussion at Vancouver city council about an extension of the seawall. A motion is coming…
Important summary of Cohen Inquiry evidence
Watershed Watch presents a “Cliff’s Notes” version of key evidence and testimony from the ongoing Cohen Sockeye Inquiry. “Concerned that key evidence was hard to access and could become buried…
Transparency, Radical or Otherwise
Responding to Doug Johnson, who in turn is responding to Miguel Guhlin, who has made his RSS work again. 🙂 My managers and co-workers read my blog (though not as…
thou shalt not bear false witness
Someone thinks this story should make you angry about the big bad government and how it discriminates against poor persecuted Christians and robs people of fundamental liberties with its jackbooted…
4872…Bill Cosby Is 75
It is all over the media. For those of you that don’t recall/were not born, his 1980’s TV show, which ran at 8 on NBC Thursday night, was so powerful…
4871…110
I was at Wal-Mart South Keys today and saw sunblock at 110 spf. As best I can figure this means I, a very White person of Celtic stock, can, after…
Invocation of the Queer Spirits – Book review: Queer Spirits by AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs
Invocation of the Queer Spirits (Governor’s Island) – AA Bronson There is always a certain magic to be found in the moment of queering. As bodies are opened to unsanctioned…