Tarsand Analogy
This is an unpolished analogy of Canada’s attitude toward the tarsand/climate change problem. Let’s say Canada is a person complaining about their weight (they think their carbon footprints are too…
John Klein
WikiLeaks: Hollywood Hatchet, Swedish Swindle
The problem with how Sweden, the UK, and the United States have been treating Julian Assange of Wikileaks, has dragged on for years. It’s left the foremost journalist in the…
Not A Lot
Not much to say tonight, except it was a busy and fulfilling weekend, with lots of community gathering, and plenty of optimism for the Spring, gardens, cycling, busing, and all…
Wall’s Leaky Logic
Brad Wall went to Washington in order to pitch the Keystone XL pipeline project. In doing so, he made some really absurd claims, that CTV failed to juxtapose against the…
Stompin’ Tom Connors Stomps Out
Farewell to a Canadian music legend who made folk music cool. Stompin’ Tom is bound to provoke cultural references for years to come. Listen to Corb Lund’s cover of Stompin’…
Over $400 a day to Travel
Wrote this a couple weeks ago, and forgot to publish it. Here it is, in some hindsight. *** The math outlines the extreme expense incurred by Conservative Senator Pamela Wallin…
Thinking Is Not Hard
Thinking is not hard to do, but some people treat it like others should do it for them. Clicking that link may be painful, as it has details of a…
The Club: Music
I went to a show tonight with Jesse, after buying a monthly membership at CrashBang Labs (which is in the same building as The Club at The Exchange on 8th…
In Their Shell
The Duck and Cover propaganda has worked maybe. There’s an entire generation prone to thinking they can protect themselves from massive danger by covering their head with their arms until…
Killer Robots From Earth
I grew up thinking that Killer Robots From Venus was a pretty amusing song. Now that we’re living in 2013, the ‘future’, we have to seriously contemplate the implications of…
Oiled Up
There’s a suspicious situation uncovered at the UofR, by CBC. IPAC, the CO(2) CCS project was audited, and there were apparent conflicts of interest in how some of the money…
ReThink Meat
Meat fraud is taking place all around us. Most people probably can’t tell the difference between similar looking meats sold in stores, were it not for the labeling. Fish fraud…
More of Lafleche Main St. Destroyed
The last of the old Lafleche Red & White grocery store, and the former butcher shop that adjoined it to the north, has burned down. Most recently it was M.O.M…
Russian Dash-cameras
The meteor strike last week made more people realize the prevalence of dash-cams in Russia. I’d seen shocking vehicle footage on YouTube before, one of a brick flying from a…
SGI Bike Uprising
Doesn’t SGI know it’s not cool to cause an uprising amongst those most likely to ride motorcycles up and down the streets of SGI brass? The increase in motorcycle insurance…
NOT a “threat to national security”
The Conservative government is out of control. The Guardian UK newspaper confirms what environmentalists have already suspected (since the Conservatives have openly accused them previously): This Conservative government regards environmentalists…
#ForwardOnClimate Support in Regina: Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
Stephen McDavid interviewed by CBC/SRC about climate change action: Stephen explains that the pipeline is a line in the sand. Using it, is crossing that line. I’ll explain why there…
De-Apple Your iPhone
Apple is infamous for making hardware that only they can easily support or provide accessories and repairs for. This irritates long-standing Apple customers who’ve bought into the latest round of…
Flight and Death
Last week I watched “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” which is a must-see movie, not only if you love it when alien bugs invade brains. I won’t spoil…
Russian Meteorite Injures People – UPDATED
Shocking, exciting news from Russia early this morning as coincidentally on the same day a major 50m asteroid is set to fly by Earth, a meteorite has struck Russia. Reports…