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Many guys will understand what I mean when I say this: your father is both a bit of light, and a bit of shadow, over your path through life. Mine,…
Many guys will understand what I mean when I say this: your father is both a bit of light, and a bit of shadow, over your path through life. Mine,…
If Conservative Immigration Minister Chris Alexander does not like this blog, why does he not say so? Here we always thought it was just fair political comment. Given time though,…
When Nelson Mandela died, Stephen Harper eulogised him as a “great moral leader…He left prison with his mind closed to any settling of scores and his heart open to those…
Starting with Tim Hudak and then progressing stateside, this post will attempt to merely display the range of prodigious stupidity that North America seems to be cursed with. First, to…
Here’s a tribute to the Sochi Olympics from The Canadian Institute of Diversity and Inclusion: * Not to be outdone, the Norwegians have come out with a response to the…
In Neurobehavioural effects of developmental toxicity, published in the Lancet, Dr Philippe Grandjean MD and Philip J Landrigan MD, propose a global prevention strategy to address the impact of developmental…
Hi readers, February’s band is Ween! Conceived in New Hope, Pennsylvania by Gene and Dean Ween, Ween has achieved tremendous underground success with a cult following that has taken their…
Alberta Union of Provincial Employees President Guy Smith at the union’s news conference in Edmonton yesterday. Below: Alberta Labour Minister Thomas Lukaszuk. Mr. Justice Denny Thomas of the Alberta Court…
It sounds like good news. A new study, “Oil Sands Economic Benefits: Today and in the Future,” states that tar sands production supported more than 478,000 direct, indirect and induced…
Well today was Valentine's Day and for the first time in eight years I have nothing to say about it.Firstly because I said all I wanted to say last year.…
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission It may be of passing interest that Faytene Grasseschi, a regular subject here, is now letting on that she is pregnant…
It couldn't have been an uglier or more depressing sight. The Russian dictator Vladimir Putin at Canada House in Sochi.Being greeted by our athletes as if he was some kind…
In light of the Harper Government(tm)’s ongoing assault on science in this country – especially anything resembling the environment – it comes as little surprise that the government is currently…
Sloan – Unkind
I’m going to throw different styles together this evening, starting with a solo acoustic number by Davy Knowles called Come Home. This is Jim Byrnes with a song originally performed…
Rhymes for Young Ghouls, the debut feature film by Canadian director Jeff Barnaby that garnered well-deserved praise on the film festival circuit this year, including a top ten film nod…
Sandra McCulloch’s Victoria Times colonist article on the latest SIA drama shows that the proponents can spin the Bullshit with the best of them. The owners of South Island Aggregates…
Snow is a bitch to get right, be satisfied with…but we go forth anyway despite snowblind and other temporary post processing afflictions..
Friday, February 14, 2014 The BC Parks Service says that the provincial parks and conservancies are a “public trust” for the “protection of natural environments for the inspiration, use and…
Friday, February 14, 2014 It feels a bit like déjà vu. Once again we’re faced with a federal government study that was highly relevant to the environmental assessment of the…