They Always Get Their Man. Or Maybe Not. Who Knows Anymore?
The Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police needs to explain why it took his officers four years to compile a list of cases of serious misconduct by its members.…
The Mound of Sound
But Robots Don’t Buy Bread
The CBS show 60 Minutes ran an item tonight about how robots were displacing humans in America’s work force. The story featured great minds from MIT and elsewhere discussing how…
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There’s no need for any additional commentary. Here’s the report. Read it for yourself. Here are excerpts of the report published in the prestigious Proceedings of the Royal Society: “…today,…
Need Brain Therapy? Try the Bard.
A bit of old William Shakespeare could be just the thing to get your brain tuned up. Academics at Liverpool University found that reading the works of the Bard and…
China Makes Daytime Disappear
What’s the difference between daytime and night time in Beijing? Fewer cars on the Ring Road. A blanket of toxic air that has blocked out the sun across most of…
US Scientists Prepare New National Climate Assessment
Who knew? U.S. government scientists are about to release an updated National Climate Assessment that warns the United States is in for a future of severe storm events of increasing…
Fukushima Fallout
It’s bad enough that coastal British Columbia is going to have to cope with countless tons of debris from the Fukushima tsunami but now homeowners are going to take a…
50 Degrees Celsius, Australia Burns
Moomba, a gas exploration town in South Australia, reached a record, 49.6 degrees Celsius in the noonday sun. Meanwhile the country is being swept with brush fires and grass fires…
Vancouver Islanders Have Spoken
Vancouver Island’s round of faux public hearings into the proposed Northern Gateway bitumen pipeline have wrapped up. The panel heard 253 presentations. When they were done, the tally was 253…
An iPotty? Really?
Americans may endure dreadful healthcare outcomes but at least their kids can go in style.
Say What, Michelle?
Salon is reporting that Michelle Bachmann is refusing to pay five staffers who worked on her presidential nomination campaign. Those who remain unpaid have apparently refused to sign “a nondisclosure…
In India, "Respected" Women Don’t Get Raped
The lawyer defending three of five men charged with the recent gang rape and murder of a young Indian woman intends to hold her male companion responsible for her death.…
Are Drones Self-Defeating?
Ask any Somali, Yemeni or Pakistani mountain tribesman. Barack Obama likes his drones or, more accurately, likes to use his drones to obliterate people he thinks deserve to be wiped…
Why, Do They Taste Like Chicken?
I recently received an e-mail from Hedy Fry about “how to find Liberals near you.” Truth be told, I’d rather know how to find Mormons near me because rumour has…
America the Sick
Let’s hope money can buy happiness because it sure isn’t buying Americans much in the way of health. A report from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences finds that, although…
Geo-Engineering Could Be the Road to War
The message from the World Economic Forum is loud and clear: we’re heading for trouble if we fall back on geo-engineering to save us from global warming. A major drawback…
Why Canadian Journalism Sucks
The CBC News report about lake contamination from Tar Sands operations came straight from the horse’s mouth, an Environment Canada “spokesman.” “Not so bad, no indeedy,” proclaimed EnviroCan spokesman Adam…
Since Steve Is Selling Out to Beijing, You Might Want to Look at These Numbers
When it comes to foreign investment and takeovers, China is only getting started. According to Professor Yiping Huang of Peking University, writing in the September 2012 issue of East Asia…
Another Burr for Netanyahu’s Saddle
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has directed his government to start issuing passports, drivers licenses and ID cards bearing “State of Palestine” in place of the current “Palestinian Authority.” Israeli officials…
Life In a Box
One bright idea that has received almost no attention in North America is Britain’s ShelterBox. Yet these compact little lifesavers in their thousands are beginning to make their way to…