MAN!
That is a big bird! Airbus 380 that had to make an emergency landing at YOW today! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
2012
Reality Check
Don’t worry! A solution is coming I just can’t tell you what it is. Energy and economics have much in common, in fact economics is just a system to organize…
Friday Night Flicks: Pigeon Impossible
No pigeons were harmed in the making of this short film. Filed under: Friday Night Flicks Tagged: animation, Short film
Jean Charest Doesn’t Car Much about Montrea, It Seems
Just had an interesting conversation with a local muncipal politician (opposition party, natch) about the way the provincial government walked out of talks with student groups over the tuition hike…
The Religion Factor in Canada’s Environmental Politics
Stephen Harper’s seemingly anti-environment and anti-science agenda has prompted Andrew Nikiforuk, a prominent Canadian journalist, to search for the root cause of this behaviour. In his quest for an explanation,…
Friday night: RIP Doc Watson
Arthel “Doc” Watson passed away on Tuesday at the age of 89. During a long career in music he earned 8 Grammy awards and a reputation as a master at…
Vancouver Secular Parenting Meetup
While I don’t have kids of my own (yet), I see the need for a larger secular parenting support within the freethought/humanist movement. This is why I’m excited to be…
St. Catherine’s Standard Sacks A Dozen
So say the rumors. Die Sun Media Die.
It’s the tar sands, stupid!
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; Act II, Scene ii, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare The Athabasca tar…
Families as Lobbyists to Get What They Need
I mentioned a couple of days ago that I will be teaching a workshop with Ottawa’s Advocacy School. My workshop will be titled “How to Know What You Want and…
Your Daily Nazi: Kanuck Kannibal Killer Also Hung With KKK?
You can settle for the MSM version , or you can go straight to the horses mouth: Luka Rocco Magnotta was posting to North America’s premier Neo-Nazi forum StormFront a…
Massey WV Coal Battle Take Two: Erie, CO Citizens Fight Fracking
shutterstock_15465343 (1).jpg Erie, CO meet Naoma, WV. Though seemingly different battles over different ecologically hazardous extractive processes — hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") for unconventional gas versus mountaintop removal for coal —…
Tar-sands
There are people who insist on calling the monstrous mega-project in northern Alberta the “oilsands”. I insist on the historically used “tarsands” since I try to reject all rebranding efforts…
Greater Sudbury at a Crossroads, Part 2: The Importance of the Decision-Making Process
Looking backwards and moving forwards to identify significant trends at local, regional and global levels, we can make some assumptions about the future in which we are likely to find…
NAFTA and Hebron #nlpoli
ExxonMobil and Murphy Oil have won a North American Free Trade Agreement appeal of a 2004 offshore board regulation that sets the amount of research and development money oil companies…
Running on Fumes
StatsCan released the first-quarter GDP numbers this morning, and the deafening silence you hear is of champagne corks not popping. Quarterly growth was 0.5% (1.9% annualized): uninspiring but not disastrous.…
4701…Creepy
That is how CNN, yes kiddies Canada has made the big time, describes Luka Rocco Magnotta the alleged, among other things, foot mailer. Creepy. Well, allegedly, yes. WFDS
Calgary Centre By-Election
As David Wilks reminded us last week, Conservative backbenchers are “not going to make a difference”. So it’s not at all surprising that Lee Richardson has turned his back on…
Jean Charest fails to silence the Quebec student movement,
As the talks to end the Quebec student strike broke down Thursday (thanks in large part to the Jean Charest Liberal government's inability to think in a non-partisan manner, thus…