And in the end…
Filed under: Cartoons (Single Panel), Non political
December 2014
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Chin-up cats.
Clean Energy Provided More Jobs Last Year Than Oilsands: Report
Canada’s rapidly developing green energy industry has seen investments of more than $24 billion in the past five years while employment in the sector increased by 37 per cent during…
French Parliament Votes to Recognize Palestinian State
France’s Socialist-led parliament has passed a symbolic vote to recognize Palestinian statehood, despite staunch objections from Israel. MPs in Britain and Spain have already passed similar motions. The proposal was…
Postcards from Pripyat
It’s been almost 30-years since the Chernobyl reactor catastrophe transformed the nearby city of Pripyat, Ukraine into a ghost town. British cinematographer, Danny Cooke, captured what remains of the city…
Bogus Clergyman Creates Marital Limbo:
BY SIMRAN BAKSHI, LAWYER, WISE LAW OFFICE Imagine waking up one morning to discover that your spouse may not actually be your spouse, as far as the law is concerned.…
Have a Happy….
Hiya Steve, I’m not religious and I don’t celebrate Christmas. That’s my choice and I don’t expect or require anyone else to do the same. So far as I’m concerned…
Hell, Even Nancy Grace Gets It. Ferguson Grand Jury Was a Sham.
Never thought I’d see the day but the Ferguson grand jury that refused to indict Darren Wilson was so ginned up even Nancy Grace won’t buy it. I feel that…
Tories unlikely to stop Bill prohibiting paid plasma, but why are they even trying?
The Ontario Tories recently have appeared to be distancing themselves from some of the more unpopular positions adopted by the party under Tim Hudak. Voting for second reading of an…
A Scientist’s Emotional Turmoil
University of Lethbridge professor, James Byrne, writes in the Edmonton Journal, that climate change fuels many emotions: As a climate change research scientist, I was recently asked to share how…
Rafe to Christy: Spare the kids, parents your Kinder Morgan lectures
11-year-old Kate Fink-Jensen (CTV) and Premier Clark (Lyle Stafford, Postmedia) Premier Christy Clark has taken it upon herself to criticize the parents of two 11-year-olds who protested the Kinder Morgan…
Gravity: A Review
While watching director Alfonso Cuarón’s film, Gravity, this weekend, I was struck by how powerful the mixed themes of isolation and survival can be. I was reminded not simply of…
What’s that Patreon thing on the side?
So, here’s the thing. I’ve been doing this web site thing – not blog! – for 14 years or so. I get visitors – according Team Propellerhead, about 2.2 million…
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!
Every year since OpenMedia’s founding we’ve organized a major push to sign up new monthly donors in December. It’s the success of this drive that keeps our campaigns running all…
Dec. 2: Bad journalism – a classic example….
“What are N.B.’s protocols for law enforcement gun use?” is on A1 of the Dec. 1 edition of the Moncton TandT. It’s also one of the longest stories I have…
Alberta Premier Prentice Lobbies For Energy East in Ontario and Quebec
Alberta Premier Jim Prentice begins an Energy East lobby tour today in Quebec City to try to woo the premiers of Quebec and Ontario into supporting TransCanada’s 1.1 million barrel-per-day…
Time for a New Approach to ISIS?
When the Islamic State overran most of Sunni Iraq, the West invoked the default option – air strikes. We decided that a good course of therapy with precision-guided, thousand pound…
Yukon First Nations score big court win in Peel Watershed case
The Peel Watershed’s Wind River (Jill Pangman) Two Yukon First Nations have won yet another landmark indigenous legal victory – this time against the local territorial government, over the vast…
It’s That Time Of Year
We’ll be away for a week due to our Vitamin D-deprived lives. Cuba beckoned. The price was right. See you soon. Recommend this Post
From Ground to Store: We Look at Carbon Neutral Wines
When you see a product that says carbon neutral, what does it mean? I recently enjoyed a bottle of Italy’s number one selling wine in Canada, Santa Margherita’s Pinot Grigio.…