BOOM!!! Part II
A CN Rail train carrying liquefied petroleum gas and crude oil has derailed and exploded about 80 kilometres west of Edmonton, prompting an evacuation in the tiny community of Gainford.
2013
Duffy Should’a Listened
Beleaguered senator Mike Duffy may be on the ropes. About to get sent to the senate cloakroom for a time out, the cops closing in and his heart giving him…
Park Board needs a better communication plan
What is with the Park Board? They pass a motion to put a new bicycle path through Kitsilano and Haddon Parks and then crumble when the public object. The motion…
Oct. 19: decent reporting…
…lousy editing… As a day’s newspaper rolls out, editors (are supposed to) look it over, see if the stories have any areas that still aren’t sufficiently explained, then go over…
Haven’t done one of these in awhile, a peek at early declared Liberal nomination candidates
Hey, before you take a look at who has come out of the wood work early to run for nominations, why don’t you take a look at my policy on…
Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading. – Thomas Walkom notes that the CETA isn’t particularly about trade, but instead serves to enshrine yet again the principle that investors come…
Who Do You Trust?
Two seeming unrelated stories, both connected by one pernicious element: unwarranted government secrecy. In this morning’s Hamilton Spectator is the sad tale of Marit McKenzie, an 18-year-old Calgarian who died…
The Ford Brothers Radio Show Does Not Belong On Public Airwaves
Recently resigned member of Toronto Mayor Ford’s executive committee, Paul Ainslie (voted with Ford 80% during this council term) has written a letter to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council asking…
10 mostly negative (but I did try) thoughts about the Speech from the Throne
I know everyone stopped caring about the Speech from the Throne on Thursday, including Prime Minister Harper, who fled to Europe right after it was read Wednesday night to bring…
Not As Advertised
Stephen Harper skipped out on Parliament the day after the throne speech. He’d spent the last one hundred and eighteen days avoiding the legislature — and he needed an excuse…
End of life decisions
The Supreme Court of Canada this week that doctors in Ontario could not unilaterally decide to withdraw ordinary life support from a patient they considered effectively dead. It is important…
Hair and hairdresser having fun in Brussels.
With the Throne Speech a one-day wonder, the Hair had nothing left to do but head for Brussels. The home of the European Union, Brussels today is more than a…
Frucking Fracking for shale gas is becoming a serious problem
Premier David Alward of New Brunswick does not get it. It is not only natives who are opposed to fracking in New Brunswick, but the general public as well. Also…
The case for, and against, a progressive merger – based on math!
First, I want to address members of the audience from the UK, Australia, and places like that. It’s Math not Maths. Sorry 😛 but it is. Mathematics is not a…
Mexico City: A study in impermanence, and a lesson to us all
pablo lopez luz photographs the concrete waves (or carpet, as he puts it) of Mexico City The unbelievably sprawling concrete carpet of Mexico City seen in these photos make me…
More On The Piraha (My Favorite Folk)
The Piraha are a small tribe living along the Amazon with an extremely peculiar…simple, primitive…language: Among Pirahã’s many peculiarities is an almost complete lack of numeracy, an extremely rare linguistic…
Saturday At The Movies
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Are we alone? More importantly, are we even awake?
The “man the life boats and head for the stars” answer to our present human dilemmas is simply delusional. We can and should explore space, but if we don’t get…
Parent Advocacy, Autism Services and the Lack of Decent Adult Autism Care in New Brunswick
In Canada October is our official Autism Awareness month. That is not as widely known as it might be for a number of reasons including the fact that we live…