“Welcome to Hebron” Video
In between all the things that come up at an active boarding school I was able to shoot and edit a welcome video for accepted students. You can take a…
2014
Last Winter Pictures
With the end of the Winter trimester at Hebron comes the end of Winter (hopefully). Below are a few pictures I took of the kids at a local mountain. Hope…
MP Olivia Chow Will Resign Commons Seat To Seek Mayor’s Office In Toronto ..
“New Democrat MP Olivia Chow will resign her seat in Parliament on Wednesday, as she prepares to launch her formal campaign to become mayor of Toronto, ending months of speculation…
LRT funding a big win for Edmonton, but it is enough to save Redford?
TweetJust five days after provincial finance minister Doug Horner was criticized for delivering a budget that was absent of additional funding to expand the south east section of the “Valley…
Completed Google Analytics Platform Principles
Working at a small independent school, I’ve learned to adapt quickly to the changing communications needs of the school. In December, I helped launch HebronToday, a news website featuring a…
Lousy polls? Redford Tories execute screeching reversal on southbound Edmonton LRT tracks
Fresh off a train in Edmonton’s Churchill LRT station, Alberta Premier Alison Redford announces $600 million surprise funding for an Edmonton LRT less than a week after her finance minister…
Italian Judge: Coal Plant Caused Over 400 Deaths, Orders Shutdown
An Italian judge has ordered the shutdown of a coal-fired power plant that has been blamed for at least 442 deaths. Public prosecutors had argued that pollution from the plant…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Floored cats.
“Miss Me Yet?” #yyccc #yyc #bikeyyc
"Miss me yet?" #yyccc #yyc #ward4 cc: @yycGael pic.twitter.com/7sqHedQY4l — Vincent St Pierre (@vsp) March 12, 2014
March 11: This is terribly, terribly late…
because it’s been a terribly, terribly busy day for me. It will also be short because this paper is so damned irrelevant that only two things are worth talking about.…
Human rights justice blocked for Aboriginal women in Canada
by: Canadian Human Rights Commission | Press Release OTTAWA, March 4, 2014 – Fear of retaliation is among the top reasons why Aboriginal women in Canada won’t come forward when…
On natural selection
Shorter (or paraphrased) Lisa Thompson: People mention ‘Walkerton’ as if it were a bad thing. Don’t they understand the benefits of killing off the weak?
Judge Says Broomfield’s Anti-Fracking Ballot Measure is Valid
A Colorado District Court judge ruled last week that a five year ban on hydraulic fracturing that citizens of Broomfield approved on the city’s November, 2013 local ballot is valid…
The Internet you know is about to look a whole lot different. And you might not like what you see.
Back in January, three judges in Washington, D.C.’s US Court of Appeals made a game-changing legal decision in the case of Verizon v. FCC, that would allow giant telecom conglomerates…
Grasping for straws – Pauline Marois
I’m glad this fear – if there ever was anyone in Quebec fearing it- was cleared up by her: An independent Quebec would open its arms to tourists from Canada.…
You Won’t Find Péladeau’s House on Google’s Street View and Other Thoughts on the PQ’s Star Candidate
I’d like to think that the Parti Québécois’ “coup” in getting Pierre-Karl Péladeau to run in the upcoming provincial election will backfire because people will be just too put off…
Zen cat’s rules for living
Yesterdays repost below prompted the gears turning. A few of my own basic rules went very well with the drawing posted a few days earlier. Filed under: art Tagged: Cat,…
Does Rogers actually pay John Tory $10,000 a meeting?
…a board position, by the by, that he refuses to resign. And, while we’re on the subject, what was he paid to lobby for bigger profits for big telcos?
Alberta Doctor: Canada Is "Lying" About Health Impacts of Tar Sands
Last month, a doctor from Northern Alberta asked a group of U.S. Senators to “keep up the pressure” on the Canadian government about an “ongoing tragedy” he has witnessed firsthand:…
Fair Elections Act Would “Damage…the Heart of Our Country’s Democracy,” Group of Professors Say
The changes to Canada’s federal elections proposed in the Fair Elections Act (Bill C-23), threaten to “seriously damage the fairness and transparency of federal elections and diminish Canadians’ political participation,”…