Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan in Tampa – Working hard
…and having some fun.:)
August 2012
A Free e-book You Won’t Take to the Beach
Think you know what you need to know about Enbridge, the pipeline giant behind the Northern Gateway project? Chances are, you don’t. ONEarth.org has a three part feature on Enbridge…
August 25: Bruce Springsteen Special
Wow! It’s right there. Almost a whole front page story about Bruce Springsteen coming to Magnetic Hill. And there’s also a great, cat story. PLUS almost a whole page about…
Harper’s War on British Columbia
Is Stephen Harper waging a deliberate campaign to suppress British Columbia and her people? I have been working on compiling a list of the measures Harper has imposed on British…
Definition?
I wonder if it is fair to say one is depressed when, in considering the future one’s brightest thoughts are a massive heart attack or a fatal accident?
If you want to see…
… how utterly pathetic CPC trolls can be, and you’re on Twitter, check out the Tweets spewed out by @RobertRoss4. Wow. The dude clearly hasn’t a life. Probably paid by…
Earth Overshoot Day – August 22, 2012
In 2006 when I first wrote of it, it happened on October 9th. Just six years later it has crept up to August 22, almost seven weeks earlier. “It” is…
For a young peoples’ video look at the history of the Tay Canal please click the link below, by which I mean…
…this one! I am so proud! Not that I had anything to do with this (and I didn’t) but because the video shows how the appreciation of Perth (Lanark County,…
Random weirdness
The Writer’s Idea Book, by Jack Heffron, contains more than 400 writing prompts and writing exercises. I borrowed it from the library a couple of days ago. First thing I…
Bye Bye Arctic Sea Ice!
From here. The lowest level on record with a couple weeks left in the melt season. More room to drill, I suppose.
The Dilbit Silence
“Dilbit” is a contraction of “diluted bitumen”, a little word loaded with controversy that has recently entered the English vocabulary. This is because “bitumen”, a word in long existence, has…
5086…It Is Looking Very Pequiste In La Belle
Montreal Gazette, The, reports that the current Leger Marketing Poll shows the PQ at 33, the CAQ at 28 and the PLQ at 27.With those numbers the Parti Quebecois is…
Right Wing Liberal Shameless In Attacking Jack Layton’s Memory
A certain right wing Liberal, (who writes for the Toronto Sun), simply can’t stand the fact that Canadians like Jack Layton. If you listen to him, New Democrats must never…
Saturday Photo: Urban Agriculture
There’s been a lot about urban agriculture in the press around here lately. Hard to tell just how much impact the movement to grow your own food in the city…
Listening to Pierre Polievre…
… on CBC’s The House this morning was a tough task. His rant about the CRTC’s ruling against those nasty and evil Liberals was reminiscent of a nerdy school hall…
No deal likely on Hebron 3rd module #nlpoli
CBC’s got the story: ExxonMobil will be able to move work related to the Hebron oil project out of Newfoundland within days, as the possibility fades for an agreement to…
Saturday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – Gerald Caplan weighs in on Jack Layton’s legacy: It seems to me that Jack Layton’s enduring legacy is twofold. First, he set a…
It hurts to see this…
Sigh. (7) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
One May Smile And Smile And Be A Villain
The above title, a quotation from my favorite Shakespearean play, Hamlet, is, I suppose, something of a truism in today’s age of cynical politics. Yet it was the line that…