Bernie Sanders: Australian Perspective
Here’s a facebook comment from Australia I enjoyed. Aleta Langdon: A POLITICAL TIP FROM AUSTRALIA: The Republicans, Fox and Rupert Murdoch want Hillary to win the nomination so that they…
John Klein
Paying Back Our Carbon Debt
This is concerning information. The scariest climate paragraph I've read today: http://t.co/p8qLzSyHRB pic.twitter.com/HS4PhTzbDd — Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) July 13, 2015 So, how do our politicians (in B.C. and elsewhere) deal…
Pelicans on Wascana Lake
I never noticed Pelicans on Wascana Lake before about 3 years ago. Before that, they were common on the South Saskatchewan River through Saskatoon.
Glop And Pail Leaves Greens Out of Debate
The Globe and Mail, Google Canada, and Munk Debates all ought to be ashamed of their brands. In both cases, the organizers say they chose to invite leaders whose parties…
Watson Quits The Star
This story is worth mentioning, because it’s about a Canadian journalist who stood up to censorship by their paper’s editors. It’s the sort of courage also described by Wab Kinew…
Every Once in a While
A Canadian journalist reawakens after a nap several years long. Why is our media like Rip Van Winkle? @nbf54321 Shawn, you're overlooking that for years @Justin_Ling and reporters have put…
Soylent is here, and its not green
Soylent Purple is purple people? They’d be purple people eaters. It’s an actual meal replacement product that you make the day before, put into your fridge, and eat as liquid…
France Has Law To Put Solar or Plants on Rooftops
I was impressed to learn that France had made new commercial buildings do this. I’ve felt badly that new buildings going up all over the University of Regina campus since…
Smoke ‘Em If You’ve Got Trees
We’ve only hand planted trees (and their heirs), but we also have smoke. If "forest fires" or "smoke" isn't trending in #YQR right now, what the heck are people looking…
The Queen City Ex Musical Ride
Here’s an advance preview, if a similar “musical ride” comes to Regina? Kids expecting horses and music from RCMP Musical Ride treated to para-military violence. http://t.co/MSqET5fY0G pic.twitter.com/XHipX4zt4f — CC (@canadiancynic)…
Shared Knowledge Conference – Regina
These videos are from the second day of the Shared Knowledge Conference at the Core Ritchie Centre, the second weekend of June. Jim Elliott with many interesting (and terrifying) facts…
Conservative Senate Overthrows Speaker #cdnpoli #SenCA
Whoa, whoa… chaos reigns…. they might have just overthrown the speaker… — Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) June 26, 2015 Housakos rules the government’s attempt “violates a fundamental distinction in our rules…
I Think Pat Martin Is Swell
You heard about the woman hospitalized for wearing so called “skinny jeans”? Global didn’t seem to understand Pat Martin was joking. From Kady’s old 2008 report comes this line: Pat…
ConCalls: Conservative Defender of Robocalls now Jailed for #elxnfraud
Dean Del Mastro is going to jail for a month, house arrest for longer, and cannot run (for office) for at least 5 years. Hey, kids, remember Stephen Harper from…
Difficult To Talk About, Important To Try
This is a difficult subject to talk about, because highlighting it could easily be viewed as hypocritical. In my defense, I’m not defending Trudeau because I want him elected, and…
Aurora from a sunspot explosion
Last night the rating of the solar storm was “severe” according to spaceweather.com Kp 8 is the strongest I’ve seen, unless it was 9 earlier this year for a storm…
I’m On A Streetcar
@vickersty I'm on a streetcar, taking rides and shit, the ride is thrashing, getting everybody all sick, but this the TTC yo, it's real 1/2 — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) June…
Longest Dry Spell Of The Year Over
It’s the longest day of the year, and the clouds were very interesting this weekend. Our first proper rain of the year was a hail storm with pea sized hail.…
#C51 Is a Brazen Power Grab
Canadians are so trained to accept power grabs, that we didn’t fight sufficiently to stop it. The police state usually pads up behind you on cat’s paws. But this time,…
C-51 Stops a Veteran From Being a Liberal Candidate
I wondered why Peter MacKay’s Liberal challenger was quitting too, and it seems the reason was how Trudeau mishandled the C-51 “anti terrorism” vote by supporting the bad bill. Since…