A Gearhead in the 21st Century
I love driving, absolutely love it. Not the trip to the mall or voyage to the in-laws sort of driving. I'm talking about the sheer joy of negotiating an empty…
What Are the Bees Telling Us?
Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? A documentary on the global honeybee crisis coming to Vancouver June 24-30@ Denman Cinema: 1779 Comox Street - find out…
Banning floor crossing is a bad idea
I think Peter Stoffer is coming from a good place and I think his intentions are pure, but I feel strongly that banning floor crossing is a bad idea that,…
Illegal for Teachers too Talk about Homos
Time to allow teachers to do their job and protect all students In Canada and the USA. More on Publicly funded Catholic Schools in Ontario soon, where they have banned…
Spider
- I found this fellow in my bag after I was out picking rose petals. The Internet and WWW are changing, and maybe not for the better. In the olden…
Pro soccer comes to Ottawa!
Even though we have known that this was coming for some time (tough to keep a secret of any kind in Ottawa), I am ecstatic to see a NASL team…
China or Greece: Which Is The Next Lehman Brothers?
Back in 2007, when the US Fed let the 100-year old Lehman Brothers investment bank go belly up, it was like a blasting cap that blew apart the global economy.…
We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming
Everything seems to be in order. I have now, single-handedly proven the SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS that if you bitch, moan, and kvetch about something hard enough and long enough, that thing…
My lovebird proposed to me
We had perfect weather here in Ottawa yesterday, which only happens about once every 42 years. It was sunny and warm, not hot, with a cool breeze, and the humidity…
Summer: Communications at Mount Allison, Amnesty International, Argosy, ATLIS, and NPR
I realize it has been a while since I wrote a large update. I've been very busy working at Mount Allison University's Communication Office. It has so far been a…
Boy, do I feel stoopid!
This popped into my Inbox this morning. I thought it was a recruitment drive for the NDP… I was going to send back a note asking them to cease the…
Causing Harm in the Name of Doing Good
Is the West taking away the best thing Afghans had going for them?Retired US foreign service officer Patricial McArdle contends that well-intentioned Western aid programmes are undermining Afghanistan's locavore tradition....few…
Geoff Campbell represents Mount Allison at Amnesty International Human Rights College
As I mentioned on the blog I write for Amnesty International Mount Allison I represented Mount Allison's group at AI Canada's Human Rights College and Annual General Meeting. It was…
The Board Versus The Caucus: A Different Perspective On The Extraordinary Convention
In the aftermath of the Liberal Party's Extraordinary Convention, some concern has been expressed (here and here) that the adoption of the sub-amendment moving the Leadership Vote to the Spring…
Harper on the Senate: A temper tantrum or just plain lying?
Mr. Sinister makes a good point that all this 'abolishing' the Senate business is just Harper stomping his little feet (or more correctly, using Jason Kenney's little feet) to get…
Vancouver Riots: We earned the respect of Americans
Jimmy Kimmel says it should increase the tourism traffic to Vancouver. :)It is a good one.
Asbestos – An Opportunity to End Canada’s Shame
While I have written previously on Canada's ongoing indefensible practice of exporting chrysotile (asbestos) to developing nations despite its well-known lethal health effects, this country does get the chance to…
If Harper Was Being Serious…
I would be behind him all the way. But, this is just our sovereign lord throwing a temper tantrum. He wants an elected Senate in order to hobble government forever.…
While the Opposition slept…
With the NDP (edit: busy) deciding to not not stop being socialists and the Liberals taking their first step in renewal by putting off renewal for two years it seems…