Musings on Game Design
An odd bit of synchronicity. I picked up a few unusual board games* at the discount/remainder store downtown (in the former Shoppers’ Drug Mart building) a couple of weeks back,…
2013
Avoid Blame Game and Deal with Hard Questions of the First Nations Issue
The last Federal Election have been an eye opening experience for me as I learned about the plight of the First Nations and the conditions of the reserves. While First…
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There’s no need for any additional commentary. Here’s the report. Read it for yourself. Here are excerpts of the report published in the prestigious Proceedings of the Royal Society: “…today,…
Sex and the Senate
Winston Churchill is credited with an exchange that when adapted illustrates, not only the similarities between prostitution and politics, but current inconsistencies in the popular view of our Canadian government.…
Need Brain Therapy? Try the Bard.
A bit of old William Shakespeare could be just the thing to get your brain tuned up. Academics at Liverpool University found that reading the works of the Bard and…
Idle No More Seems United in Little Besides Principle
Wab Kinew and Llyod Axworthy have an interesting editorial in the globe today. They argue First Nations issues are too often seen as a zero sum game, when really the…
China Makes Daytime Disappear
What’s the difference between daytime and night time in Beijing? Fewer cars on the Ring Road. A blanket of toxic air that has blocked out the sun across most of…
US Scientists Prepare New National Climate Assessment
Who knew? U.S. government scientists are about to release an updated National Climate Assessment that warns the United States is in for a future of severe storm events of increasing…
Stephen Harper’s Latest Outfit
To attract women voters.
CTV: Toronto sets warm weather record, Manitoba digs out from storm
CTV: Toronto sets warm weather record, Manitoba digs out from storm : This weekend, Toronto and other areas of southern Ontario set all-time high records for temperatures in January. In…
Thus, the OLP Leadership Race Degrades to This
Warren Kinsella came out with this drive-by against Kathleen Wynne this morning: After yesterday, it’s pretty clear that the next 10 years of Ontario’s future will be determined by today.…
Vancouver Islanders Have Spoken
Vancouver Island’s round of faux public hearings into the proposed Northern Gateway bitumen pipeline have wrapped up. The panel heard 253 presentations. When they were done, the tally was 253…
50 Degrees Celsius, Australia Burns
Moomba, a gas exploration town in South Australia, reached a record, 49.6 degrees Celsius in the noonday sun. Meanwhile the country is being swept with brush fires and grass fires…
Fukushima Fallout
It’s bad enough that coastal British Columbia is going to have to cope with countless tons of debris from the Fukushima tsunami but now homeowners are going to take a…
#skndpldr Roundup
With the holiday break now over, we can likely expect a steady stream of news from Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership campaign until the March convention. So let’s take a look at…
OLP Leadership Update
An update on an earlier post I made detailing the delegate candidate counts. More firm numbers have now been confirmed. There will be 1712 riding delegates, 16 from each riding.…
Yes to Capitalism, No to Greed
The political arena is strange. So much of the time it's about "defining" the opposition. News flash - the left is not against capitalism. Greed is visceral. We all know…
Yes to Capitalism, No to Greed
The political arena is strange. So much of the time it’s about “defining” the opposition. News flash – the left is not against capitalism. Greed is visceral. We all know…
Yes to Capitalism, No to Greed
The political arena is strange. So much of the time it's about "defining" the opposition. News flash - the left is not against capitalism. Greed is visceral. We all know…
Foods to eat in Québec
Québec is renown for its culinary specificity. In a recent edition, the National Geographic lists the top ten foods to eat in the province: Poutine Bagels in Montréal Tire sur…