Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, November 11, 2014
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November 2014
Another Remembrance Day, And my Scepticism Lingers . . . .
Four years ago today I wrote a blogpost expressing my concerns with the modern manifestation of Remembrance Day. Even as recently as this week I received a positive comment on…
The Military Math of Climate Change
Two, yes. Four, no way. According to the Royal Navy’s Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti, climate change will impose new burdens on Britain’s military forces and allied militaries for conflict prevention,…
Justin Trudeau to protesters: ‘Take a minute to explain’; Harper would’ve had them tackled and arrested
What a remarkable contrast! As we know, Stephen Harper has such tight restrictions at his events, only card-carrying Conservatives with long party histories can get in. No one except the…
The Funeral by Dave Adey
Originally left as a comment on the post about Remembrance Day, Dave sent this along as an attachment to an e-mail because it was too long for a comment. Here…
The Great Bear Wild: A Photographer’s Battle for One of the “Last Conservation Frontiers on Planet Earth”
None have captured the unique beauty and wildlife of British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest like acclaimed photographer Ian McAllister. A resident and long-time conservationist of the unique coastal wilderness, McAllister…
Surfing Oceanic Data
The ocean is massive and it’s experiencing massive change thanks to climate change and humans depleting its resources. We know this, but we don’t know the extent of the harm…
A Sobering Remembrance Day Reminder
I have to confess that all of the extra ‘enthusiasm’ for this year’s Remberance Day makes me uneasy. Poppy sales are at an all time high. Special and protracted ceremonies…
Red Poppies: Wars Are Eternal
Today is Remembrance Day, but I’ll not be wearing a red poppy. It’s fine to honour the dead, but not to glorify war. So I’m posting here a picture I…
War: For Wankers, Bankers and Tankers
On Remembrance Day, I respect those that died by asking why they had to die.
Velox Versutus Vigilans #nlpoli
Corporal Kenneth Chad O’Quinn, 2 Canadian Mechanised Brigade Group Headquarters and Signals Squadron, killed in action, 03 March 2009 -srbp-
Saturday Photo: Champlain’s Asters
After much back and forth, it looks like the new bridge across the St. Lawrence is not going to be named after a hockey hero. There’s even a chance that…
Republicans in Congress Seek to Crush the Environmental Protection Agency
A week after their electoral victories in the 2014 midterms, Senate Republicans have already set their sights on one of their all-time favorite targets: the Environmental Protection Agency. Republican Senator…
Blow the bugle softly, the hairdresser is sleeping.
This is inhuman. The Hair has rushed the hairdresser to Beijing and back so that he can be at the Cenotaph in Ottawa today. Is the hairdresser getting hardship pay…
Remembrance Day 2014
http://veteransday-pictures.com/ We have become mesmerized by bad behaviour. Michael den Tandt writes that honour is is short supply these days: Honour is AWOL, missing without leave, in the case of…
11.11: honour the dead by committing to peace
Robert Fisk, in The Independent: But as the years passed, old Bill Fisk became very ruminative about the Great War. He learned that Haig had lied, that he himself had…
November 11, 2014. Lest We Forget
Today is Remembrance Day in Canada, Veteran’s Day in the United States. Today I remember my father, James Edward Thomson, who fought in Europe with the Royal Montreal Regiment and…
Remembrance Day 2014: And My Promise to the Dead
It's going to be a very emotional Remembrance Day in Canada, especially at the National War Memorial.For the reasons we all know, for the blood spilled. And at the stroke…
If the numbers are not known, invent them
Reviewing BC Ferries financial statements this week, I was reminded of a radio interview I heard early in the tenure of the current BC Ferries CEO. That was shortly after…