What could be more obscure, or easily forgotten, than the Friday press release at 5:10 p.m.? Well, that would be the one on Saturday evening. And what is being announced? Oh, nothing important: Plans for a provincial red-alert disaster information system were announced by the Ontario Commissioner of Emergency Management today. The “Alert Ontario” systemcontinue reading
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Flickering lights, freezing blasts
Today’s announcement on phasing out incandescent light bulbs by 2012 is supposed to be good news. But once again, today’s announcement overlooks one of the biggest and fastest-growing causes of peak demand during our not-all-that-hot, not-all-that-long summers: air conditioning. More homes in Ontario have air conditioning than anywhere else in the country — although thecontinue reading
Actually…
Offensive former Green Party candidate spews venom as he’s kicked to the curb: [Potvin] added Sunday that if the Greens think getting rid of a candidate will squelch a controversy, then they don’t know what national politics is like. Hmmm. Let’s think of some recent occasions where political parties have dismissed candidates, shall we? Reachingcontinue reading
I would not breed from this officer.
Not even matching tweeds could save the relationship: And at 24, the Prince is said to feel he is too young to marry. The last time the pair were seen together was on March 13, when they dressed in matching tweeds to spend the day at the Cheltenham Racing Festival. Middleton is lucky to bailcontinue reading
Tethered flying windmills, oh my!
From the Economist, via BoingBoing: Just as oil companies are drilling deeper and in more remote locations in search of new reserves, pioneer wind-power engineers are looking higher in the sky for new sources of energy. Conventional turbines will not take them there—the highest to date is just over 200 metres tall. So they arecontinue reading
And the speaker is –
You might think I’m getting senile, that I’ve gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore. The President of the United States is given a free pass to ignore the Constitution, tap our phones, and lead us to war on a pack ofcontinue reading
This turned out as well
…as could be expected, all things considered. OK, sure, it destroys the Green’s PR image, and tarnishes the Liberal’s one-truly-national-party reputation, but there you go: Grits and Greens make a deal Liberals won’t run candidate against Elizabeth May; she reciprocates for Dion, touts him as best PM Apr 12, 2007 06:00 PM Canadian Press OTTAWAcontinue reading
And good riddance
Supreme Court of Canada won’t hear Zundel appeal
So let’s recap…
British sailors and marines are taken captive by Iranians while busy patrolling and gathering intelligence… on the Iranians. Iran uses captives as propaganda tools and releases the gift-laden, professionally styled troops as an “Easter present for the British people”. Having failed utterly to look strong during the crisis, Britain’s Ministry of Defense decides to trycontinue reading
2/3 of Canadians do not understand our legal system
[rant] That’s the only conclusion I can draw from the Story in the today’s Globe about the 25th anniversary of the Charter, which found (among other things) that 2/3 of Canadians support the idea of elected judges. The thing about judges is that most of the time if you don’t like what they’re doing, youcontinue reading