Saskatoon A Day At A Time
Here’s a clever video that took more than a year to complete by a young Saskatoon man. It reminds me somewhat of my shorter-lived face-a-day project modeled on Noah Kalina’s…
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More In Canada Now Willing To Accept Dictatorship
Here’s Harper’s legacy, as he’s attempted to plunge our country into darkness: The group surveyed attitudes towards democracy and governance in interviews with 50,000 people in 28 countries. It found…
January 30 Years Ago
Originally posted on Grandparents' Journal: My grandmother I knew as “Nana” lived in Toronto when I was young. She’d moved back there from California, before I was born. She kept…
New Solar in Ontario
Ontario isn’t as GD senseless as Saskatchewan’s government. They actually have somewhat of a Feed In Tariff program underway. The Ontario Power Authority has just extended its solar feed-in tariff…
On This Day 34 years ago, in Zimbabwe, Africa
Originally posted on Grandparents' Journal: This blog entry was written 34 years ago today, by my Grandpa, William Klein of Lafleche, Saskatchewan. He and my Grandma Margaret were living in…
CRA Destroys Metadata Copy of Texts
Fortunately, the NSA likely has a backup copy of this attempt to cover up CRA efforts to target charities. @saskboy @Belgraves @TorontoStar More to the point, If sent on taxpayer-funded,…
Parliament Should Go Solar
Following up on my 2010 blog post on solar for the White House, it takes almost 3 years to get solar added to a historic national building. That’s why we…
SaskPower Says Bigger Is Better, Even Losses? #PowerToGrow
As a followup to the Star Phoenix’s article on the hugely expensive, and (public) money losing CCS plant at Estevan, comes word of further cost overruns. The overruns, in the…
I’m Boring, Ignore Me: Supreme Court Ruins Privacy
I think people who say they are too ordinary, law abiding, and boring for police to violate them, are more wishing that were true than stating a fact. Will the…
Harper Has No Plan B
The Hill times regarding the recent plunge in oil, and unspent money on renewable energy: Liberal MP John McKay (Scarborough-Guildwood, Ont.) said the report is evidence the government of Prime…
Export The Immigration Minister Please
It’s so fantastically shameful the Immigration Minister discriminates based on religion, denying Syrian refugees especially if they are Muslims. This would violate the Charter of Rights were these people Canadians.…
Set Walmart and Target Afloat, Please
Monty Python was onto something with their sailing financial pirates, I think. “Over 260,000 tons of plastic waste in oceans, study shows“ Why buying dollar store crap will come back…
Harper’s “crazy” Comments
So, @PMHarper, if oil/gas regulations don’t work at $65 a barrel, at what price are they “uncrazy”? $80? $100? — David Akin (@davidakin) December 9, 2014 Here’s an impressive takedown…
CIA Tortured For Bad Info
Don't worry folks, no one will go to prison for the massive torture program we ran, but we'll still condemn other countries for injustice. — Nima Shirazi (@WideAsleepNima) December 9,…
SaskPower, How’s That 14 Year Test Going?
Dear SaskPower, I’m interested in seeing the statistics regarding the electricity generated by the test panels installed on the Saskatchewan Science Centre, in the attached picture, and as mentioned in…
Who Needs Water Anyway?
A delusional remark in a CBC article: “Canada, which has long been criticized for being heavily dependent on shipping natural resources to the rest of the world.” Our Prime Minister,…
Saskatchewan’s Biggest Net Loss
How did Postmedia manage to let this Hanley column sneak into its pages? Mandryk got his shots in at Cenovus and Wall already too. SaskWind has provided a breath of…
NOAA Numbers Manipulated
This is a short essay about why our species can’t have nice things. A PhD Meteorologist in Florida claims that because October 2003 was hottest since October 2014 by only…
ConCalls: Conservatives’ “(technically) clean hands” #RoboCon
Check out @LindaMcQuaig latest column: Why the robocalls conspiracy will happen again — quietly | iPolitics http://t.co/rPdhmu380t #cdnpoli — Yamina Tsalamlal (@YaminaTsa) December 4, 2014 Avoiding any responsibility was no…
“People are going to die”
First Nations Financial Transparency Act: Watch Pam Palmater put the Canadian Taxpayers Federation in its place. “We don’t even have enough money to have websites, how the heck are we…