Olympic inspiration
This is not political in content, just a bit of inspiration as the Olympics gets underway. From a piece on Clara Hughes and her preparations for these games, this blog…
2012
Demand Forecasts #nlpoli
Yesterday’s offhand reference to Nalcor’s electricity demand forecasts brought home a couple of points to your humble e-scribbler. The biggest one is that a great many people still do not…
Invisible Real Autistics Suffer While Self Promoters Peddle False View of Autism Disorder As An Alternative, Superior Way of Thinking
Some self promoting, self proclaimed “geeks” are pushing a distorted view of autism disorders as being the domain of different, even superior, thinkers. Historical geniuses long dead are often cited…
Race-Baiting, National Post Style
The National Post has an interesting article arguing that over the past couple of years CSIS has been monitoring relationships between the First Nations and the government of China. The…
Some Alberta seniors will soon be eating better meals – they can thank the union for them
AUPE’s powerful viral video on the unappetizing 21-day menu. Below: Former Alberta Health Services CEO Stephen Duckett, Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne. One of the least successful experiments of the…
Stephen Harper and the Rotting Regime
Sometimes it's the little stories that tell you so much about the way Stephen Harper's Con regime is slowly rotting from the head down. Like the story of how our…
Beaverton Grace Bible Church loses court case against blogger
A minister who sought 500 thousand dollars in damages for defamation against a former church member who blogged about her experience with his church, will be paying the former members…
Everyone Needs Their Heart – Vancouver’s Fugitives sing against Bill C-31
Adrian Glynn and Brendan McLeod aren’t known for writing music with a political slant. When he’s not writing gorgeous western-tinged melodic songs, Adrian joins Brendan in the Vancouver band, The…
This Is Greatness
Since I was 14, maybe 15, this was my favourite band. 40-years later it still is. This was probably this band at it’s peak – 1978. Magic.
Who’s zoomin’ who
The contrast between Heather Mallick’s coverage of the Douglas inquiry and Christie Blatchford’s is getting wider every day.Blatchford decided before the hearing even began that Lori Douglas is virtuous and…
NL wheeling power through Quebec #nlpoli #cdnpoli
From April 2009, here’s Kathy Dunderdale – then the province’s natural resources minister – quoted in a news release on an historic agreement that saw Nalcor wheeling electricity from Churchill…
A dangerous ploy
Asking a judicial officer to recuse themselves is amazingly dangerous. If they say no you are stuck with an angry jurist. If they say yes you have to start trial…
Red Dragon Falling
Has China clipped it’s own economic wings? In previous posts, I have mentioned on more than one occasion how I feel about China and it’s current economic platform. Yes, many…
Nuclear regulator loses radioactive Cesium-137 after training exercise for summer students …
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission launches probe to determine how ‘high-risk radioactive nuclear substance’ was left in Slater Street meeting room for three weeks
A dangerous ploy
Asking a judicial officer to recuse themselves is amazingly dangerous. If they say no you are stuck with an angry jurist. If they say yes you have to start trial…
Water Blogged: Canada’s mass firing of ocean scientists brings ‘silent summer’
Water Blogged: Canada's mass firing of ocean scientists brings 'silent summer'
Water Blogged: Canada’s mass firing of ocean scientists brings ‘silent summer’
Water Blogged: Canada's mass firing of ocean scientists brings 'silent summer'