The Price Of Our Heedlessness – A Sobering Saturday Morning Video
Although brief, this video shows the terrible cost of our ‘disposable’ lifestyles: Recommend this Post
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Slow Walkers Part 2 – Random Act of Kindness
Yesterday I shared a short film about time and aging called “Slow Walkers”. Today, I happened to come across this slow walker who was helped across the road in a…
Inequality For All
On September 27th, a documentary film with that title hits the theatres. The little guy who the film revolves around makes the same argument he has been making in print…
Burying Blackberry before the buyers.
Thursday nights on CBC’s National News there is an excellent panel of pundits, usually monitored by news reader Peter Mansbridge. The panellists are Chantal Hébert of the Toronto Star, Andrew…
Iggy Ever After
They’re calling it an excerpt, but I stopped reading at about the 900 page mark, after Iggy invoked the ancient Greek Gods to explain Cdn. politics. Nowhere does he ever…
Obamacare, the Koch Brothers, and the Harper Cons
It's a frightening and truly disturbing sight. The Republicans in the House of Representatives threatening to shut down the American government. Again. With one vote on Friday, the Republican-led House…
Climate Change According to Sask Party Government
This government page will almost certainly disappear at some point on the original website, so here is a backup: Climate change is a long term shift in weather patterns. Since…
A quick guide to UK Politics for Canadians
I follow politics pretty closely and among the first things I did upon arriving here was register myself and Sonia to vote (I’m a citizen through descent and Commonwealth citizens…
50% Some WHO Autism Awareness: Autism and Intellectual Disability 50%
Questions and answers about autism spectrum disorders (ASD) Online Q&ASeptember 2013 Q: Do persons with autism always suffer from intellectual disability? A: The level of intellectual functioning is extremely variable…
Rona Ambrose, and the Con War on the Sick
Well I see it didn't take long for the new/nouveau Con Health Minister Rona Ambrose to show her true colours. Health Minister Rona Ambrose is slamming her own department's decision…
More international election fun!
Tis the season it seems for international elections. Tomorrow Germans across the country go to the polls. Last week, in the german state of Bavaria, the CSU managed to regain…
Warren’s free advice to Ontario PCs: ten points
I can’t win. If I say that Tim Hudak should be left alone, his detractors will say it’s because Ontario Liberals know he’s a dud, and want to keep him…
The #WWTP Debate
Reblogged from John Klein – Regina: The big debate between Jim Holmes of Regina Water Watch, and Mayor Fougere of the City of Regina, took place Wednesday evening at an…
On the day that your company is cratering…
…would you announce you are going to make available your one remaining asset for free? Boy, those big corporate bosses sure are smart. Capitalism is in great hands.
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Friday night blues blogging
Good evening. Here’s a young Johnny Winter performing Mama, Talk to Your Daughter (h/t to Moose). There’s a slight skip in the first minute of this clip. It’s a small…
Geist: Rogers tries to backtrack from its failed PR campaign – but no one is buying it
Rogers tries to backtrack from Big Telecom’s fail of a summer PR campaign aimed at misleading Canadians. Telecom expert Michael Geist responds – and you’ll want to read it. And…
Slowing Down Without a Fight – Slow Walkers
Lately, I’ve been thinking about time…that it goes too fast for my Mom and sometimes for Nicholas. Sometimes my loved ones who need care require me to slow down, to…