August 29:Be patient. The major part of this comes…
….after a brief bit about how ghastly the local newspaper is. If you really, really care that the New Brunswick legislature will be offering a new beer to visiting dignataries,…
2015
Sea Levels Rising Faster than Predicted – Again (and again and again)
1992, not all that long ago. Just long enough for global sea levels to rise an average of 8 cms. At 2.54 cms. per inch, that comes out at just…
Harper’s election platform
He will keep his promise. What more public wants? !!
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Michal Rozworski calls for the election to include far more discussion as to who benefits from our economy as it’s designed, and who…
Just a Reminder to you Dippers. No Woolies for You, These Days You’re Farting Through Silk.
In case you missed it last time, and obviously a good many of you did, here’s that link to Yves Engler’s (Canada’s Chomsky) evaluation of Tommy “Angry Beard” Mulcair’s profound…
Katrina remembered
Today is the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which struck on August 29, 2005. In the days following the hurricane, I copied messages off a New Orleans message board and…
Katrina remembered
Today is the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which struck on August 29, 2005. In the days following the hurricane, I copied messages off a New Orleans message board and…
Katrina remembered
Today is the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which struck on August 29, 2005. In the days following the hurricane, I copied messages off a New Orleans message board and…
Katrina remembered
Today is the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which struck on August 29, 2005. In the days following the hurricane, I copied messages off a New Orleans message board and…
Will This Be Remembered as The Summer North Americans Woke Up to Climate Change?
Smokey haze, intense heat, encampments of evacuated residents next to the highway: these were the conditions that greeted Renee Lertzman when she recently drove through Oregon. It’s no wonder why…
Olivia Chow’s Video About Bill C-51
Given yesterday’s post on the growing worldwide governmental repression of civil society groups and NGOs, as well as the disturbing information included in my update, a video by Olivia Chow…
Deficits, the left, and Twitter confusion. . .
I got into an interesting, though entirely unproductive, twitter exchange this morning concerning the issue of the Left and balanced budgets. It all began when someone posted a link on…
Meanings of Life
Don’t eat apple and don’t vote for Harper.
Paul Martin Gives Tommy Angry Beard a Well-Deserved Kick in the Ass.
Paul Martin was the finance minister who plucked the federal government from the brink of fiscal chaos. It was a tough time for all including the provinces, even the Canadian…
This election, let’s really talk about the economy
Here’s a short, “populist” piece on going beyond the very limited economic debate in the election campaign so far. It was published on Ricochet: The word ‘austerity’ is finally in…