Regina’s Unlikely Sights
An unexpected appearance by Beaker in the 3rd floor RIC window A wasp drinking some pop Red Sun at One in the Afternoon: I couldn’t figure out what the unnatural…
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Oh Yeah?
-My tongue is longer than yours. -Oh yeah? Well, my tail is longer than yours. -Don’t look at me, I’m staying out of this.
New Tory health plan is simple – too simple
The new Ontario Tory plan for health care is simple – eliminate the Local Health Integration Networks and the Community Care Access Centres and let between 30-40 “hub” hospitals run…
Christian Group Sues School Board Over Lesson Plans
A group calling itself the “Parental Rights in Education Defense Fund” along with an anonymous “beleaguered parent” is suing the Ontario school system for not providing advance notice of gay…
Blogging will be light until Equinox…
Blogging has been light non-existent for the past couple weeks, as I’ve been preoccupied with a fifteen-part chronicle of my life in fuel cells. A vacation now beckons, meaning that…
Gregg: Too Long; Didn’t Read
TL;DR is a common refrain found on the Web now. It means that something was too long for for the comfort of the reader, so they didn’t bother. Reader’s Digest…
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Deane Report: Which came first, the underfunding or the internal conflict?
How much of a factor is underfunding to the working relationships within a public hospital? What is the impact of resulting cuts on the public’s perception and trust? In July…
How we die in Canada
Statistics Canada maintains a snapshot of how Canadians die. The chart not only gives an indication of how nearly a quarter million of us cast off this mortal coil each…
Looking upstream: Law Commission report a step in the right direction
If Ontario really wants to look at upstream investments to improve population health, it may want to pay attention to an unlikely source – the Law Commission of Ontario. In…
Canada-Russia ’72, game 2: Redemption, for a while, in Toronto.
Game 2: Toronto, Sept. 4, 1972 In the two days after the Mauling in Montreal, Canada was in a deep, dark, depressed funk. The loss to the Soviets was so…
Is WiFi harmful? More junk science
I just had to purchase a new WiFi router for home, so the safety of wireless signals was in the back of my mind recently again. Not in that I…
The Real Cost of Education
B.C. students warned to stick to budgets Today in the CBC media, there’s an article admonishing students to stick to their tight budgets…this of course presupposes that students even have…
Open Possibilities
Fourteen years ago last night I was laying in a new bed, on my own as an adult in the wider world for the first time. Besides my worry and…
#ConAir: RCMP Grounds Plane Critical of Harper
WARNING: Strong language and feelings ahead. Canadian democracy is at risk, so you’re damned right I’m worked up: Okay, our country has taken a new turn for the worse this…
Anti-Gay Group Says Equal Marriage Leads To Abortion
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), an anti-choice and anti-gay lobby group based in the UK, has distributed fliers suggesting that legal same-sex marriage will lead to…
Run from Hit & Run
If you have an option to not see “Hit & Run” , take it. If I’d written this review last night, I might have given it a 5 and said…
Canada-Russia ’72. Why it mattered.
It’s 40 years ago today that Canada and Russia faced off in Montreal to start the most gut wrenching, confidence shattering, depressing and joyous sporting even in Canadian history, and…
ConCalls: It May Not Be Over, But It’s Forked #RoboCon
Stick a fork in it, Elections Canada is done like dinner. They’ve been sitting on evidence that ties Prescott to Poutine, and have known since at least May, 2012. Why…
Hayek and Contemporary Neo Liberalism
In the spirit of “know thy enemy”, I recently read Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom. (Note to the anxious – I survived the experience, and remain a convinced left Keynesian…