Athabasca’s Cancer Ponds
The Athabasca Tar Sands tailing ponds are said to be so huge they’re visible to the naked eye from space. As the Harper government steamrollers over obstacles in the way…
The Mound of Sound
Philip Seymour Hoffman – 46
Died in his apartment bathroom. Apparently drug overdose. A giant talent lost to the needle.
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…
Hmm. Nice Bike.
Harley riders are fond of claiming they want to be buried with their bikes. For 82-year old Billy Standley, his wish came true. Billy’s kids decided their dad should go…
Rob Ford – A Hazard to Navigation
Okay, let’s face it. Friday night, following a wake. Rob Ford. Lougheed Hwy at North Road, a high-traffic corridor dividing Burnaby and Coquitlam. The two-legged bucket of lard decides he’s…
Prince Charles – Climate Change Skeptics are ‘Headless Chickens’
Every voice helps. The man who may yet be King has dismissed climate change denialists as a bunch of ‘headless chickens.” The Prince of Wales has launched an attack on…
Quick, Buy a Lottery Ticket
From CBC News, amazing photos of the luckiest family in Italy. A landslide in Ronchi de Tormeno dislodged a couple of monster boulders that rolled downhill. One took out a…
Live or Die. That’s the Choice.
This is pretty succinct – “Heed the warnings in extreme weather – or risk losing Earth.” The idea is that when Atlanta, Georgia is frozen to a standstill and yet,…
As If We Needed Another Reason to Boycott Nestle
You might remember Switzerland, the country that played banker to some really evil dudes in the 30s and 40s. And banker to a whole bunch of lying, cheating but very…
When Taking the Measure of Trudeau, Think Nigel Wright, Think Mike Duffy and All the Rest
Severing the bond between Canadian senators and their party apparatus and leadership is a long overdue reform and all the proof you’ll ever need is to be found in the…
Tired of the Polar Vortex? Why Not Warm Up in Seward, Alaska?
The mercury hit 61F in Seward, Alaska on Monday. That’s Alaska, as in way, way up north, in January. Meanwhile traffic has ground to a halt as 2 inches of…
Dinesh D’Souza Indicted
Backpfeifengesicht You might remember this little rightwing prick, Dinesh D’Souza, from his appearance on The Daily Show or Real Time with Bill Maher. Or perhaps for his slanderous documentary 2016:…
Oh, This is Precious. WalMart Versus Costco.
There’s a nifty and fun calculator over at Mother Jones that shows how many hours a week you would need to work to earn a living wage from either Costco…
Should We Be Celebrating History We Don’t Understand?
Last week the National Post ran C.P. Champion’s impassioned argument that the War of 1812 should be venerated as part of Canada’s 150th anniversary celebrations in 2017. Champion took full…
Oh Dear
U.S. state legislators, responding to the recent criticism over the execution by torture of an Ohio inmate who took 25-minutes to die from an untested cocktail of lethal drugs, think…
C’Mon, This Is Not Funny. Well, Not That Funny.
Dateline: Rasdorf, Central Germany. Dairy Cows raise the roof. BBC News reports that a cow shed roof was damaged and a cow was injured when concentrated bovine ass gas exploded.…
Well, Justin, Good On You
Justin Trudeau’s decision to abolish the Liberal party’s Senate caucus is a bold and democratic move. The Senate is supposed to be independent, the best and the brightest, chosen on…
Warmer Seas, Smaller Fish?
Fish stocks in the North Sea are shrinking. Over the past four decades some have shrunk in length by as much as 29%. Researchers wondered if the shrinkage was the…
Brits Back Beavers
Britain has been hammered by prolonged and massive flooding in recent years. One solution being advocated by UK’s Mammal Society is to reintroduce the beaver to Britain’s wetlands. The cheapest…
Stranger Things Have Happened
Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize just a few months before he authorized a “surge” of 30,000 more U.S. soldiers to fight the Afghan War. That seemed a matter…