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Mirth and Meditation
"One of the reasons farm salmon are in net pens is to make sure no one has to deal with the manure.... it all flows out of the pens... and they choose spots where the current will prevent build-up under the pens. So [in a disease outbreak] there is no such thing as a quarantine - an observer exclusion zone perhaps..."
Registered professional biologist Alexandra Morton
Killer
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Yesterday, on tv, I watched a policeman, in the company of several other
policemen, apparently summarily execute a wounded man crawling in the
street. Th...
Joey Verma’s trial date finally set for June 25th
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Joey Verma’s trial for the murder of Britney Irving is finally on the map.
Britney’s mother is understandably upset there has been another delay but
at l...
#LiquorLeaks reveals Exel Pursuit Plan
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In April 2008, executives of Exel Logistics, DHL Express, DHL Global
Forwarding and since-sold ETS huddled for a corporate strategy workshop and
decided...
The Doctor is in
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*Un dia grande para mi. *I'm feeling overwhelmed - in the best of ways - to
have this fine honour bestowed upon me by the University of Victoria. And
isn'...
An Unhealthy Mountaineer
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Air pollution penetrates the heart of California's wild places
A giant ponderosa pine. Photo: USFS.
Over this past long weekend, spent backpacking i...
Foreign influences: you choose
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The Harper Conservatives continue to bang away on their well-worn anti-environmentalist drum. Pearl-clutching alarm about foreign donations to Canadian envir...
Rail for the Valley Rsponds to the SkyTrain Lobby
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Malcolm Johnston, from Rail for the Valley responds to Mr. Cruz’s
pro-SkyTrain letter from last week. Transportation: LRT beats SkyTrain,
hands down Langle...
State security . . .
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VICKIE'S TRYING TO BUILD ONE OF THESE. Inside Moammar Gadhafi’s Secret Surveillance Network: The Internet enabled surveillance on a scale that would have bee...
Putin’s Final Act
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Vladimir Putin’s new presidential term is just beginning, but it
increasingly looks like the beginning of the end. Whenever Russia’s people
pour into the s...
News Is Where You Find It
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Post Media announced a new round of cuts and closures this morning,
indicating that the traditional sources of news are dwindling beyond the
current lame...
Gouged By A FedCon?
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*Turns Out That The First Cut Is NOT The Deepest.*
Paul McLeod has the story in the Chronicle Herald. Here's his lede:
*Federal budget cuts are actual...
European ACTA Negotiation Documents Leak
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EDRi has posted four unredacted ACTA documents that provide insight into
four of the ACTA negotiation rounds - Paris, Rabat, Seoul, and Guadalajara.
The d...
Bill C-37 BC Animal Health Act
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The BC Christy Clark/Campbell unelected Government has been very busy
drafting legislation. There are some twenty Bills stacked in the
Legislatur...
Take Time Out … For Life
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I have always appreciated my many blessings in life … too many to list here
… but among the most meaningful to me: family; good friends; a
wonderful caree...
Shall we gather at the river?
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The first time I saw him, he was striding toward me out of the burning Georgia sun, as helicopters landed behind him. His face was tanned a deep brown. He wa...
Pat Tieleman - gone but never forgotten - my mom.
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My three sons - Bill, Ralph & Jack with Pat Tieleman in the middle
Pat Tieleman and daugher-in-law Shirley Ross
Pat Tieleman with only grand-daughter Erin Ro...
RANCH DRESSING, PLEASE
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*SOCIALISM *
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbour.
*COMMUNISM *
You have 2 cows
The State takes both and gives you some milk.
*FA...
Public must be part of process
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Publication:
Delta Optimist
Author:
Sandor Gyarmati
Date Published:
Fri, 05/25/2012
Decisions that could dramatically alter Delta's landscape...
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Thanks...
for F**k All
Clueless One!
*Non - Premier Christy Avoiding the Ledge in Japan** * For a few days
there, Christy Clueless was gallivanting aroun...
Liquor privatization… in the dark of the night
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The BC Liberals posted the LDB privatization business plan on its open
government (hahahahahahahahahahahahah, sic, etc…) site late yesterday or
sometime la...
“Renaissance Man”: Part 3
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Evan, Candice and I are very pleased to present the concluding chapter of
our film about the wild quest of Matthew Wadsworth and Micky Dymond,
available ex...
Persuade with Silky Smooth Copy
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It shouldn’t surprise Neuromarketing readers that choice of words is
important when writing headlines, taglines, or copy, but brain scans show
how specific...
The Assault on Universities: A Review
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Is there a worse possible fate for Canadian universities than the imminent
future bearing down on universities in the UK? A 100 per cent cut to
teaching gr...
An apology from Tsakumis??
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BC Liberal outbursts *were* deliberate
I happened to visit Alex Tsakumis`s blog before shutting down for the night
(after watching John Cummins with Vaughn...
Fraser vs Pembina, part 2: Funding
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This is the second in an ongoing series comparing and contrasting two
prominent Canadian think tanks, namely the Fraser Institute and the Pembina
Institute...
Two dead pregnant women, and the war on drugs
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I meant to do a post last week, when the the New York Times carried a storysaying the U.S. was taking the war on drugs into Honduras. DEA agents are
operat...
Rhetorica At 10
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I’m ten years burning down the road Nowhere to run aint got nowhere to go
–Bruce Springsteen The 10-year anniversary of Rhetorica has come and gone
witho...
RoboConundrums
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Despite yesterday's somewhat dampening headline : *Pierre Poutine robocalls
trail goes cold in Saskatchewan*, the main story here is not that Elections
Can...
Walking Tour of Mount Pleasant
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Starting at the Quebec Manor Apartments, E7th Avenue & Quebec Street (one
block west of Main Street), 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, 6 may 2012, Robert McNutt
& Lewi...
Formula One Needs a New Formula
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The topic of the ethics of sports (see last week's blog) does not want to
disappear from the news. Reading this weekend’s news about the death of a
protes...
A new school of architecture
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I was turning my mind back to maritime matters this morning, and the first
page I opened in the Vancouver Sun had the following photo on it. It’s
India’s ...
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*Hoofs and Heroes*
*Skijoring Comes to the Kootenays*
By Doug Pyper
A recent 'Skijoring' event in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia
may well h...
54 North and the plan to nowhere (Part III)
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It was important to wait until the release of the federal budget to
determine what should be discussed. As I pointed out in a previous
submission, only imm...
Baseball Necrology, 2011
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By Tom Hawthorn
The Emerald Guide to Baseball, 2012
Society for American Baseball Research
*Reno Bertoia*
Pierino (Reno) Bertoia [1953-1963] died on April...
In Memory of Mick Strubin, 1944 to 2012
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There were, not surprisingly, hundreds of people at the celebration of life
for Mick Strubin. Bowen Island Fire Chief Brian Biddlecombe said of his
friend ...
Elif Shafak inspires, at 5x15
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[image: Elif Shafak inspires, at 5x15]
Elif Shafak is an award-winning novelist and the most widely read woman
writer in Turkey. Her books have been trans...
Murdoch’s ties to Big Tobacco
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Rupert Murdoch’s phone-hacking problems have been all over the news in
recent days, but it wasn’t too long ago his media properties were providing
a suppor...
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LIBERALS on Committee for Legislative Initiatives:
terry.lake.mla@leg.bc.ca,eric.foster.mla@leg.bc.ca,dave.hayer.mla@leg.bc.ca,richard.lee.mla@leg.bc.ca,pat....
So what's your point?
ReplyDeleteBig deal. A small section of the province gets ruined but look at the wonderful results that some people get to live in.
That's how capitalism is supposed to work. Creative destruction with rewards for the strong.
To anonymous: Does might make right?
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