There is no good value
A piece in the Financial Times from several days ago has finally pushed me to scribble down a few initial thoughts on value – a topic I been thinking about…
January 2014
Target Is A French Word Meaning…
…”we’re out of that item on special in our weekly flier.” Although on this occasion at least their employees weren’t hiding, engaged in orgies or smoking crack in the staff…
We get letters: a sports fan writes
And he sure is angry! Drop him a note – tell him how you feel about him! Name G Tryon Email trygor@shaw.ca Subject Olympics Meddler Message I’d like to see…
Gas prices heat up as homes, shale gas wells face record chill
by Jonathan Fahey, The Associated Press NEW YORK – The frigid winter of 2014 is setting the price of natural gas on fire. Friday, the price in the futures market…
Coming Soon to The Simpsons Channel – COSMOS 2014
Cosmos is coming back. Premiering on 9 March on FOX, Neil deGrasse Tyson will be hosting an updated version of the legendary show hosted by the late Carl Sagan. When…
Struggles against gold-mine on Indigenous land
FISH LAKE, Teztan Biny in the Tsilhqot’in language, is a pristine lake with an abundant rainbow trout population. Located on the Chilcotin Plateau, 125 kilometres southwest of Williams Lake, British…
Another Reason to Worry About Overpopulation – Robotics
Maybe we picked the wrong time, possibly even the worst time, for a global, population explosion. We’ve been warned for years that the robot age is upon us and it’s…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne calls out Stephen Harper’s hypocrisy in paying lip service to the problems with the use of disposable temporary foreign labour while…
Steyn Stew
Another big setback for rightwing loudmouth, Mark Steyn, and another big win for climate scientist Michael Mann in his defamation action. Mother Jones reports the defendants’ camp is coming apart…
The Buck Stops Here — Privacy 101 for Minister Horne — A guest blog by lawyer Brian Thiessen
Susan on the Soapbox welcomes her first guest blogger. Employment and privacy lawyer Brian Thiessen has a few words to say about a privacy breach that impacts 620,000 Albertans. The…
The Vancouver Food Policy Council And That Awkward Racist Guy
Mr. Bill Hard-done-by-those-coloured-people Zylmans. I bet even his strawberries are racist. Photo: Matthew Hoekstra, Richmond Review. I was really excited last Thursday to go to an event about farming in…
UPDATED: Ethical Oil calls Neil Young ‘IndianIgnorant’
Ezra and crew created the racist hashtag #IndianIgnorant for Neil Young. Then they deleted it when they realized their own racism. This is what we’re up against. It’s not just…
Global Warming Reaches the Factory Floor
It’s about time. According to The New York Times, industry is beginning to ‘get’ the reality of climate change now that it’s beginning to hammer their bottom line. Today, after…
Cooking with Bob Marley, on a snowy winter’s day
The cooking is rocking along to Bob Marley’s mellow groove, on this fine winter’s day. “The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory”…. “There’s a natural mystic blowin’ through the…
Sportfishing Rules
Guardian enviro-scribe George Monbiot gets it. Sportfishing trumps commercial fishing any day and in every way. It’s better for the environment and it’s better for the economy, way better. Here…
Bieber’s arrest appears to have been overhyped, but why?
I can’t believe I’m about to write on this blog about Justin Bieber, but I am. Details are starting to emerge that point to Justin Bieber’s arrest being extremely overhyped.…
What to do: Evernote database corrupt, application crashes attempting recovery
I am a sincere devotee of Evernote. I use it constantly, every day. So when it crashed on me and the local copy of the database was corrupted, my life…
Today in Afghanistan – Inmates Still Running the Asylum
Outgoing (this year) Afghan president Hamid Karzai says the U.S. needs to start peace talks with the Taliban or they might as well just pack up and leave. Given that…
Jan. 25: Learning to teach…
Before I could teach grade 7, had to get get two years of a BA, and go to teachers’ college. Before I could teach high school, I had to finish…