Superbowl Sunday: Stay Safe
So don’t even think it. Personally, I will be off the road by game time. And, yeah, I may well be eating wings and nachos. Don’t wreck your evening, and…
2014
A Guest Post From The Mound of Sound
In response to my last post, which dealt with climate change and the persistent drought in California, The Mound of Sound, a.k.a. The Disaffected Lib, offered some incisive commentary that…
Salmon farms get tax dollars for dead fish, provide few jobs
I now have reliable figures on slaughtered fish payments of your taxpayer dollars to billion dollar Norwegian derivative fish farms in BC, and others across Canada. Cermaq Mainstream, Marine Harvest…
Snowy Afternoon Walking With My Dog
April Reign A few pics and short video showing just how hard it was snowing. Looks lovely and for once wasn’t bitterly cold. April Reign – In a time of…
The Final Humiliation of Conrad Black
I was short, it was brutal, and it was long overdue. Former media baron and convicted fraudster Conrad Black has been stripped of the Order of Canada by Gov. Gen.…
Repost: I couldn’t have said it better myself ….
In June, 2011, I posted this blog below. It is about a letter I received from an Albertan, who was expressing his concerns over the Senate reform proposals of the…
Repost: I couldn’t have said it better myself ….
In June, 2011, I posted this blog below. It is about a letter I received from an Albertan, who was expressing his concerns over the Senate reform proposals of the…
Big news about to break with Todd Bentley?
By Rick Hiebert All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. I should have first realized that something may have been about to break in regards to Todd Bentley when I saw…
On Mass Surveillance
The revelation this week that CSEC has the capability to monitor the movements of Canadians simply by gathering some metadata from the traffic that goes by on public networks raises…
Speak up for science
Our federal government’s lamentable attitude to science, or at least any science that doesn’t benefit business, is one of its key features. Nonetheless, Industry Canada is giving us a chance…
Repost: I couldn’t have said it better myself ….
In June, 2011, I posted this blog below. It is about a letter I received from an Albertan, who was expressing his concerns over the Senate reform proposals of the…
Olivia is a best seller!
Meanwhile, John Tory is deciding whether to write one or not. Rob Ford is wondering if the book has big words in it. And Karen Stintz is wondering if she…
Theories Related to Connectivism
I was asked: But i have some questions about my research. First i need ten-year findings of connectionim learning theory, second (Read more…)
There’s a credit union at Bank and Somerset again
Back when I moved to Ottawa in the early 1990s I did all my banking with one of the big commercial banks. I realized how wrong that was but what…
Feb. 1:: There is a real news story on p. 1…
….unfortunately, it doesn’t say anything. The rest of Section A, as usual, says nothing, being devoted largely to “news stories” that are really ads for Walmart, the Super Bowl, and…
The Keystone Tarsands Pipeline Will Have Minimal Environmental Impact… Really?
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy A recently released State Department report claims the environmental impact of the Keystone pipeline would be “minimal.” So……
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Justin Fox questions whether traditional studies tracking the distribution of wealth by quintiles do much good when the most obvious economic faultline is…
He Said WHAT?
Shinzo Abe seems to have dropped a bomb in his speech to the World Economic Forum at Davos. Abe has some of Japan’s neighbours nervous over his support for expanding…