Coordinates to Landing Zone XI
Famous Painting with SF Titles: Coordinates to Landing Zone XI No doubt this painting is known to you by the title given to it by humans, L’Ultima Cena (The Last…
February 2013
Copper-fastened #nlpoli
According to the Telegram editorialist argued last week, this fuss over renovations was nothing at all. At any rate, renovations planned long in advance — to keep the legislature from…
Jason Kenney and the Bieber Factor
As you know I've always considered Jason Kenney's singular contribution to Canadian politics a real freak show.I've had trouble taking that ghastly religious fanatic seriously since he said that gays…
Growing Gap Of Truck Drivers Will Be Costly To Canadian Economy
By The Conference Board of Canada (Press Release) | Feb. 21, 2013: OTTAWA – Tens of thousands of truck drivers are approaching retirement age, but very few young people and…
According to Fromm, Christie’s Prognosis is Quite Dire
Fromm posted the following on his Facebook account earlier today: Lawyers like Gerry Spence, someone this writer admires a great deal, defended individuals he didn’t agree with but who he…
Renting seniors’ beds is a formula for failure – and it’s time for Alberta to stop doing it
Fresh air and yogurt might have helped these guys live to be 160, but if they’d lived in Alberta, instead of Russia, where could they afford to sleep? Below, seniors…
Hey big spender
Introducing the Top 10 spenders in Canada’s Senate: Gerry St. Germain, a Conservative who retired in November, was the top spender ($378,292), while Liberal Robert Peterson, who retired in October,…
Why I adore Bill Mitchell’s Billy Blog
Ratings firm plays the sucker card … again Posted on Monday, February 25, 2013 by bill Companies that sell shonky products under false pretenses are typically prosecuted by the authorities.…
Saturday Photo: Ice Castles
Given the rock ‘n’ roll temperatures, kids wanting to build snow castles have had mixed success. Just after the year end holidays someone(s) built a magnificent snow castle at St.…
Our Debunking of the Whitaker Matra Used as Source Material
We had completely forgotten about this, but we thought we’d share it now. Some time ago we were contacted by someone who spent a great deal of time debunking the…
CBC Science News: Humans Only a Few Thousand Years Old
Maybe it’s just a typo, but it’s a little depressing to see the state broadcaster’s science reporters — people whose salaries I pay — utter statements like the following: if…
Fracked Gas Won’t Solve Energy Crunch: Report
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The Tyee series on energy continues, several from the series appear ‘On the Left Side.’ This episode features highly respected geologist David Hughes analysis. It is markedly…
France 24: Digital pollution? Data centers, planned obsolescence, recycling materials (VIDEO)
High-tech = high consumption. France 24′s Environment explores the environmental impact of contemporary digital culture, from energy consumption at data centres to ‘planned obsolescence’ and efforts to recycle dead hardware.…
Lessons in the Meaning of Caregiving
I believe that I have a crush on a man I have never met. His name is Arthur Kleinman and he’s a Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist. I’ve written before about…
France 24: Digital pollution? Data centers, planned obsolescence, recycling materials (VIDEO)
High-tech = high consumption. France 24′s Environment explores the environmental impact of contemporary digital culture, from energy consumption at data centres to ‘planned obsolescence’ and efforts to recycle dead hardware.…
Killer Robots From Earth
I grew up thinking that Killer Robots From Venus was a pretty amusing song. Now that we’re living in 2013, the ‘future’, we have to seriously contemplate the implications of…
Shaun Fryday, whose faith community emulates his personal hospitality, to be this year’s recipient of the Craig Chaplin Memorial Award
Rev Shaun Fryday has been selected by Montreal’s United Theological College to receive the award, established by my late brother, at the UTC Convocation on May 8th, 2013. Fittingly, the…