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Man's kind Facebook post rallies community to save struggling restaurant
When a perfect plate of fish and chips helped Colin Ross tackle his hangover, he decided to do the restaurant a favor, too. Ross visited Whitbie's Fish & Chips in Lethbridge, Alberta the morning after a night out, thinking that a good meal might make him feel better. It did — and Ross was blown away not only by the food's deliciousness, but by the restaurant's emptiness. SEE ALSO: Server rece
Science: A long, long road to… us
== Lottsa Luca == Luca, the Last Universal Common Ancestor, is estimated to have lived some four billion years ago, when Earth was a mere 560 million years old. For a long time the three great domains of life -- bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes -- seemed to have no common point of origin. But now scientists have zeroed in on 355 genes that probably originated in Luca, the joint ancestor of bacter
The transgender swimming group that's changing lives
The transgender swimming group that's changing lives Taking the fear out of swimming. By Rachel Thompson The transgender swimming group that's changing lives Taking the fear out of swimming. By Rachel Thompson The familiar smell of chlorinated water. The feeling of cool air against unclothed skin. The cacophony of laughter, splashes and sharp intakes of breath. And, the nervous feeling in the pit
Emergency Theater for Paris Agreement: China, US rush to sham ratification
Tell the world it is all an act. … It’s a do or die moment for The Cause. Brexit has hit them hard, and the Trump factor threatens to wreck everything. The Paris agreement has stalled pathetically at 1.1% of all human emissions (they need 55% to come into force). What they need right now is a gamechanger, and if they can’t get it then, true to form, they will manufacture the illusion of it. Next
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Why Americans want Gary Johnson at presidential debates
Polls show a majority of Americans want a third-party candidate to take the stand at the coming presidential debates. Attendees at a Boston rally for Libertarian Gary Johnson say their interest is partly driven by dislike of the two major candidates.
Donald Trump just made his worst tweet yet
Friday night, Nykea Aldridge, a 32 year-old woman living in Chicago was shot and killed while pushing a stroller in an apparent accident. The shooters were aiming for another man and she was caught in the crossfire. It’s an extraordinarily sad story but not necessarily one that would attract attention outside the Chicagoland area except for the fact that the victim is the first cousin of NBA star
Memo From France: From Bikinis to Burkinis, Regulating What Women Wear
What is it about women’s swimwear and general attire that has repeatedly compelled societies to legislate or regulate women’s choices?
Theresa May 'acting like Tudor monarch' by not giving MPs a Brexit vote
PM’s lawyers argue that parliamentary approval not required to trigger article 50 Theresa May has been accused of displaying the “arrogance of a Tudor monarch” over her reported intention to deny a parliamentary vote on Brexit before beginning the process of pulling the UK out of the European Union. The prime minister is allegedly planning to prevent MPs from voting on the decision to leave the E
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Rare Close Encounter of Venus & Jupiter Tonight Won't Happen Again Until 2065
Tonight (Aug. 27), look toward the western horizon just after sunset to see Venus and Jupiter get up close and personal, plus a parade of planets. No telescope required!
Hawaii Is Now Home to an Ocean Reserve Twice the Size of Texas
A 582,000-square mile "no-take" zone: President Obama just quadrupled the size of a national marine monument off northwestern Hawaii.
Scientists discover a ‘dark’ milky way
Using the world's most powerful telescopes, an international team of astronomers has found a massive galaxy that consists almost entirely of dark matter.
Microplastics discovered in the deep, open ocean
A unique study will provide valuable new insights into the concentrations of microplastics in the open ocean from surface to the sea bed, say scientists.
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DJ Shadow ft. Run The Jewels - Nobody Speak
"You wanna hear a good joke?" CAST: Igor Tsyshkevich / USA Ian Bailey / UK Vika Akentyeva / Portugal Vladimir Arhipov / Germany Anna Bezmenova / France Vadim Bezverhniy / The Republic of Ireland Denis Bondarev / India Oleg Burov / Sweden Lena Cherevko / Cleaner Valeriy Kozarchuk / Turkey Vlad Kunitsin / Ukraine Irina Lifshits / China Sasha Maltsev / Austria Andrey Maslov Lisichkin / Can
The Blue Time
The Sami People call it the ‘blue time’ - the period in winter when the sun doesn’t rise above the horizon in northern areas of Scandinavia. Jeff Allen visits northern Norway every year, in both winter and summer, to break out of the world of credit cards and double glazing that society has become and explore the breath-taking wilderness and coastline by sea kayak with longtime friend Bjørn Eines
Watch a Breathtaking Time-Lapse of Grand Teton National Park
Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park is 309,994 acres of wilderness, lakes, rivers, wildlife, and mountains. The landscape has inspired authors, poets, and even Congress. More Than Just Parks produced this stunning time-lapse of the imposing peaks and the valleys that surround them, showing why the Teton Range is a standout in the Rockies. More Than Just Parks: https://vimeo.com/174538286 The Shor
Ellen's Emoji Exploji!
Here's a taste of what you can expect from Ellen's new Emoji app, available now in the App Store (http://ellen.tv/emoji) and Google Play Store! (http://ellen.tv/emoji-app) From: TheEllenShow
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Illegal Herbicide Use on GMO Crops Causing Massive Damage to Vegetable Farms
Dicamba can drift for miles after spraying, harming non-target crops
Feds Move Oil & Gas Lease Auctions Online in Effort to Avoid Opposition
23.8 million acres of leases in Gulf of Mexico are being auctioned today amid protests from community activists and environmentalists
A Helping Hand for Fledgling Puffins and Petrels in Newfoundland
Local conservation group rescues stranded birds, assists them on their way to the ocean
Long-Studied Alaskan Wolf Pack May Be Dead After Years of Aggressive Hunting
East Fork wolf pack, found near Denali, was first researched in the 1930s
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Interview 1203 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-08-25%20James%20Evan%20Pilato.mp3"][/audio] This week on the New World Next Week: we uncover the shady connections behind the EpiPen price gouge; we detail the secret eye in the sky that has been watching over Baltimore; and we celebrate the Fed's spectacular FaCIAbook failure.
Rambo III – FLNWO #37
[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/flnwo37-lq.mp3"][/audio] Rambo III is silly popcorn entertainment. But it is silly popcorn entertainment that is set during the Soviet-Afghan war, and as such it reflects the standard propaganda narrative that was being fed to the American public at that time? So what do we make of this silly propaganda today, after 9/11 and the conquest of
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Tragic year for world's rangers, many of whom lack even basic insurance
Gland – At least 107 rangers died in the line of duty over the past twelve months and yet a new survey finds many rangers across the world are still not covered by any health, long-term disability or life insurance schemes. According to the figures released by the International Ranger Federation (IRF) to mark World Ranger Day today, 42 per cent of the rangers who died in the past year were killed
Living 'in the red'
Eight months into 2016, humans have already spent Earth's ecological budget for the year. Earth Overshoot Day – the approximate date when humanity's annual demand on nature exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year – is on Monday, 8 August this year, according to the Global Footprint Network . As global consumption rises, we are emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than our ocean
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"Hate crime" is sick
"Hate crime", as a crime in state statutes, is a feature of a totalitarian society. Democratic societies have only regular crimes and a strong presumption of innocence until proven guilty, with no thought or expression crimes. A regular crime must have a victim (different from the accused, and not society at large) that was actually, measurably and willfully harmed by the actions of the
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I met Michael Thompson aka Freestylee, Artist Without Borders online. I saw one of his posters of a veiled woman with e...
I met Michael Thompson aka Freestylee, Artist Without Borders online. I saw one of his posters of a veiled woman with exposed lips and one that made direct eye contact with the viewer. I found it at the time of Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill in The Gulf of Mexico. Another showed an iconic image of Marilyn Monroe black oil running down her face and onto a sexy satin dress. A major theme in
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Fifth Force Of Nature Is A Unified Field Of Love And Soul Consciousness / An Urge To Unite That Exists Beyond Time And Space
“ If confirmed by further experiments, this discovery of a possible fifth force would completely change our understanding of the universe ,” says UCI professor of physics & astronomy Jonathan Feng, including what holds together galaxies such as this spiral one, called NGC 6814. Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt. You can well imagine my excitement when I recent
The Greening Of America / It'S Final Act Is Approaching
THE GREENING OF AMERICA / IT'S FINAL ACT IS APPROACHING The Greening of America is a 1970 book by Charles A. Reich. It is a paean to the counterculture of the 1960s and its values. Excerpts first appeared as an essay in the September 26, 1970 issue of The New Yorker. The book was originally published by Random House . In 1970, Charles Reich wrote The Greening Of America , a book that profoundly i
It'S In Our Hands, There Is Another Choice ~ Jill Stein For President
T he successful Bernie Sanders populist movement was most definitely grassroots and anti-establishment and now that Bernie has submitted to the Clinton machine, which raised its ugly head at the Democratic Convention and showed its true colors, there is no one in the movement more effectively carrying the progressive anti-war message than Green Presidential candidate Jill Stein ~ whose trusted pr
America'S Dark Side Is Hillary'S Cross Of Iron
A leaked Hillary Clinton email confirms that the Obama administration, with Hillary at the helm, orchestrated a civil war in Syria to benefit Israel. See story ~ https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/clinton-email-we-must-destroy-syria-for-israel/ America's Cross of Iron speech was immortalized by President Eisenhower in 1953 as well as his farewell address to the nation in 1961 and he correctly
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October 3: Albert Woodfox to speak at Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, LA
On Monday, October 3, as part of Southern University Law Center's 2016-2017 Speakers Series, Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3 will be speaking about: "Use of International Laws and Coalitions in Justice Movements / Prison Reform." The event will be held from 12-1 pm in 129 A.A. Lenoir Hall at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Albert Woodfox and Robert King in New York City, August 7 and 8
On Sunday, August 7, Robert King and Albert Woodfox will be at the Law For The People Convention in New York City, organized by the National Lawyer's Guild . They will be speaking on the Solitary Confinement panel from 1-2:30 pm. Then on Monday, August 8, Albert and King will appear at a book signing, from 6-9 PM at the Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Center, 310 West 43rd Street, in NYC.
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Senator Corker and the CTBT
Senator Bob Corker, the Republican Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, has taken issue with the Obama Administration’s decision to co-sponsor a UN Security Council Resolution and a companion P-5 statement reaffirming national moratoria against nuclear testing. This non-legally binding initiative would also urge the Treaty’s entry into force, now delayed for two decades, as …
The Lesson of Nagasaki
Hiroshima gets all the attention, but Nagasaki teaches the more important lesson. The need to destroy Hiroshima will be forever debated, but the counterarguments were unpersuasive to President Harry Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson. A world war had taken the lives of tens of millions. Noncombatants were not spared. When a war-ending weapon …
Not Just Yet for No First Use
The United States is not going to use nuclear weapons first in a conflict. Allies who believe otherwise are attached to a fiction and a psychological crutch. But these allies have been badly spooked, first by Vladimir Putin and now by Donald Trump. Despite Putin’s annexation of Crimea and Russian salami-slicing elsewhere around its periphery, I …
Donald Trump’s Challenge to Nuclear Orthodoxy
The belief system in nuclear deterrence makes the most sense at the most elementary level: nuclear weapons deter use by an adversary for fear of retaliation in kind. Deterrence therefore requires survivable nuclear capabilities. It doesn’t take much by way of force structure to convey the threat that leaves something to chance, which is the …
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Sgt David Clarke Of Milwaukee Gives Speech At RNC On July 18, Then Milwaukee Cop Shoots Black Guy August 13 In Milwaukee, Then Sgt David Clarke Becomes FOX's On-The-Scene Police Expert: HOW CONVENIENT!!!!!!
July 18 unknown Milwaukee black cop (who seems to hate blacks btw...) gives speech at RNC: August 13, about a month later, Milwaukee cops shoot and kill black guy: Guess where the shooting occurrred? In Milkwaukee, where SGT DAVID CLARKE is from! The same guy who gave a speech at the RNC a month ago! And guess who conveniently becomes FOX's "on the scene police expert"? SGT DAVID CLARKE
Are Trump & Hillary Taking Down The GOP AND Rightwing Media?
During the Republican primary, in which Donald Trump ANNIHILATED the rest of the GOP candidates, the establishment Republicans were trying to gather together to take down Trump? Were they right? Was it because they knew HE was taking THEM down? What else can explain Trump's seemingly flipping a switch after the RNC and acting like a complete NUT? It looks like he's throwing the general election t
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solidarity from scotland to palestine via soccer
At a football (soccer) match between the Scottish Celtic team and an Israeli team, Hapoel Beersheba, hundreds of Celtic fans defied Scottish law to show their solidarity with Palestine and protest the Israeli occupation. Mondoweiss reports: There could be serious consequences for Celtic thanks to the protest, carried out in front of Israelis themselves. Fines and closures of their fans seating se
fight for 15 and fairness: brampton forum for decent work
After our members returned to work, but while I was still on staycation, I attended a community event organized by labour activists in Peel Region. It was a beautifully planned event, with music and food and lots of opportunities for participation. In Ontario, the Fight for $15 & Fairness is focused on the Ontario Ministry of Labour's Changing Workplaces Review . Each of the three keynote spea
things i heard at the library: an occasional series: #22
"Can you help me find some mystery books?" "Yes, I'd be happy to. What kind of mysteries are you looking for?" "The kind where someone is killed, and then they figure out who did it." Okay... In the mystery fiction section, I tried this. "There are different kinds of mysteries. Some are more gritty and violent. Some are more gentle. Some are humourous. Do you kno
what the strike meant to us, in our own words
Image: "We Hit Them Like A Wave" -- Diane Davies After CUPE 1989 ratified our new contract , I said I would write about the intangible gains we made through our strike, the kind that aren't written in the collective agreement. I've heard labour activists say that strikes are a "transformative experience" -- a life-changing event -- and now I know why. Standing up for ourselves
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Paul Craig Roberts begins this all to true issue with this paragraph: "Acquaintances of my generation are puzzled by the disappearance of the American left. They remember when there was far less war, far less monopoly capitalist theft, a less rich and powerful elite, less police violence against civilians, less militarization, less privatization and deregulation, fewer attacks on the social safety net, less propaganda from the media, and yet, despite the milder state of affairs, the leftwing was present raising hell about it all." NB, The bloger is of the very same generation, and he too laments the disappeance of the left just when we need it most.
What Became of the Left? — Paul Craig Roberts August 19, 2016 | Original Here | If you wish to receive his newsletter via email go to Original and sign up at bottom. What Became of the Left? Paul Craig Roberts Acquaintances of my generation are puzzled by the disappearance of the American left. They remember when there was far less war, far less monopoly capitalist theft, a less rich and powerful
Oh how our government lies! But when it comes to the economy, the bigger the lies the bigger will be the crash. Here I'm talking about the stock market. And the only good news is that the banksters and stock market riggers will "go down with the ship" due to their own greedy ignorance. However, you honest folks with small savings should either sell all now ...or actually make money during the crash by buying into companies that already own large quantities of silver and gold ore which they can melt into those precious metals whenever the demand increases. (I provide you with several tried and trusted such companies in my second blog below.)
Another Phony Jobs Report — Paul Craig Roberts August 8, 2016 | Original Here | If you wish to receive his newsletter via email go to Original and sign up at bottom. Another Phony Jobs Report Paul Craig Roberts As John Williams has made clear, the monthly payroll jobs number consists mainly of an add-on factor of 200,000 jobs. These jobs are a product of the assumption in the Birth-Death Model th
The graph below explains a major factor driving Warren Buffett's conclusion that the major stock markets are due to crash. The Margin Debt (red) is the amount of BORROWED money used by the denizens of the markets to trick "moms and pops" to renew buying shares. The blue line is the actual value of the Standard&Poors 500 over time. Clearly, mom and pop are no longer wealthy enough to be in the makets at all. Indeed they barely have enough for food and shelter ...if they are lucky ones. The red trace shows the bottoms of the stock market crashes of 2001 and 2009. And those paying attention are certain that the comming crash will soon be far deeper than it's predecessors (perhaps -70%!). Fortunately the real losers will be the banksters and market manipulators who actually believe that they are safe from any impending crash because of the recent anouncement of 255,000 new payroll jobs. As Paul Craig Roberts put it in the post above, "the 255,000 jobs are the product of a virtual reality…
If you follow Warren Buffett’s methodology, stocks are significantly overvalued Brian Kelly | @BKBrianKelly Thursday, 4 Aug 2016 | 10:11 AM ET Adam Jeffery | CNBC Warren Buffett When I turned bearish in January 2016 I missed three critical elements that caused the S&P 500 to grind toward record highs. First, a sufficient number of other investors did not share my skepticism about the global e
Paul Craig Roberts is only one year younger than me, and we both got under-graduate degrees in technical universities, his at Georgia Tech, mine at Carnegie Tech. Moreover, we both took six years to get our PhDs, his in economics from from the University of Virginia, after also studying at University of California at Berkeley and Merton College at Oxford University. Thus he became a top knotch economist, becoming Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Ronald Reagan and an associate editor on the Wall Street Journal before giving up such paying jobs in order to expose the crimes of our government. Less importantly, I became a prize winning physicist after Graduating from Brown University. But in the present situation you will learn more of what you need to know from him than from me. So my readers should peruse PCR's posts that I have reposted today and yesterday. All that I can give you now is how to make money when the stock market crashes ...which is beginning happen as we speak.
How Long Can Economic Reality Be Ignored? — Paul Craig Roberts August 10, 2016 | Original Here | If you wish to receive his newsletter via email go to Original and sign up at bottom. How Long Can Economic Reality Be Ignored? Paul Craig Roberts Trump and Hitlery have come out with the obligatory “economic plans.” Neither them nor their advisors, have any idea about what really needs to be done, bu
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The Dysfunctional United Kingdom
Recently an Angus mother of three infant children was separated from them and jailed for ten months for over-claiming £10,000 per year in benefits. Meanwhile the Duke of Westminster evades £3.6 billion in inheritance tax through a transparently fraudulent use of trusts which “have the option” to give the money to someone else instead. The United Kingdom is a socially backward and sometimes viciou
The Cynicism of Hillary
Hillary Clinton’s completely unfounded claim that Russia was behind the passing to WikiLeaks of Democratic National Committee documents was breathtakingly cynical. It was a successful ploy in that it gave her supporters, particularly those dominating mainstream media, something else to focus on other than the fact that the DNC had been busily fixing the primaries for Hillary. It was however gross
Doune the Rabbit Hole 19-21 August
As regular readers know, this blog is intimately connected to the Doune the Rabbit Hole Festival. I always enjoy meeting many of you there in the eponymous Whistleblower bar, and this year the tremendous moral uplift I personally get from our pop-up community will be more welcome than ever, after a difficult few weeks coping with family illness. There are a couple of short videos from last year w
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Stephen Harper's Legacy
Ten years ago on the day Stephen Harper and his Conservative government were first elected into office, US Ambassador David Wilkins sent home a diplomatic cable outlining how the US could best support and direct a prime minister whose values were "not in line" with most Canadians. He recommended Harper would be useful in "advancing the US agenda for Canada" and that giving him
Libs falling off electoral reform bandwagon
Electoral Reform Committee member Liberal Sherry Romanado floated the idea of implementing "federal solutions" "without changing the voting system itself" at ERRE meeting #16 yesterday. She was pitching how to achieve at least some of the committee's mandate set in motion by Justin Trudeau's campaign promise to make 2015 the last election under FPtP. This is one step further a
Balancing jobsjobsjobs with destroying the planet
Brilliant one minute speech New Zealand MP James Shaw made to an almost empty house. .
Loopholes and Libya
Really? Because a mere two weeks ago, Steven Chase was reporting: Ottawa rewrites mandate for screening arms exports "The Canadian government has quietly watered down its own mandate for screening the export of military goods, rewriting parts of the only substantive public statement available on Ottawa’s responsibilities for policing foreign sales." Previous policy on military exports :
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Did Targetting Town for Refusing Anti-Choice Ad Result in Defunding Fake Clinic?
Oh, dear. The town of Hinton, Alberta, is having some troubles. We reported on the funding of its fake clinic, doing business as West YellowHead Pregnancy Care Centre, back in November 2014. The Hinton fake clinic was getting dough not only from from the Alberta Lottery Fund , but also from the town's photo radar scam, which turns traffic ticket fees into "community grants." The fake cli
Canadians Demand Action to Get the Gore Out of Our Faces
Abortion is a legal, common, safe -- and except in the tiny minds of a tiny minority -- ordinary medial procedure. For the tiny minds, however, it is "killing" and they want it stopped. To that end, some groups -- most notably the Fetal Gore Porn Gang, aka Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform -- will go to any lengths, including endangering drivers, scaring children, and disgusting jus
The Lie That Won't -- But Should -- Die
My heart sank a few days ago when I saw yet another headline in the fetus freak media SHRIEEEKING about the abortion=breast cancer (ABC) link-lie. Not because I expected anything other than the usual half-baked BS, but because I've taken on the Sisyphean task of refuting every new -- and they come around like clockwork every couple of years -- AMAZING STUDY that "proves" abortion causes
BREAKING! Feminist™ PM Declares "What's Sauce for the Goose. . ."
DAMMIT JANET! has learned that Canada's feminist Prime Minister has taken note that just about nobody is pleased with Health Canada's idiotic rigorous dispensing rules for the so-called abortion pill, Mifegymiso. From Newfoundland and Labrador , to Prince Edward Island's pharmacists and physicians , to Manitoba and British Columbia , just about everybody who has anything to do with reproductive h
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Update: Earthquake in Italy 241 Perished
Update from earlier Italy earthquake death toll drops to 241 http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/italy-earthquake-death-toll-drops-1.3735050 August 25 2016 How Canadians can help victims of the quake in Italy http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/how-canadians-can-help-victims-of-the-quake-in-italy-1.3042454 How to help the victims of the Italy earthquake http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/24/world/iyw-italy-earthquake-
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Earthquake in Italy
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake followed by a series of aftershocks has hit central Italy. The worst hit towns were believed to be Accumoli, Amatrice, Posta and Arquata del Tronto, a spokesman for the Italian fire department Luca Cari told Reuters. The tremor was felt across Italy, from Bologna in the north to Naples in the south. There have been dozens of aftershocks. Strong shockwaves were felt as f
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Deeply Dystopian
Based on a free excerpt captioned "A quick rundown of the ecocidal empires that came before us", I purchased the electronic version of "Extinction: A Radical History" by Ashley Dawson. Upon reading the entire book I was not surprised, having been forewarned, to see the typical finger pointing at capitalism - but it was more disappointing than usual since the author, who is a s
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Cairn
A simple stone cairn lies not far from the Clearwater River commemorating what was once a vitally important link in Canada's cross-country transportation system. While having long been surpassed by road, rail and air, the Methye Portage (also known as the Portage La Loche) played a key role as the link between the Athabasca River and Lake Winnipeg. At a length of around 19km (12 miles) it the lon
Deluge
As if dealing with the aftermath of the largest civil evacuation in Alberta history wasn't enough, parts of the city are now dealing with the aftermath of yesterday's deluge of rain. I suspected it was going to be an unusual day when I was woken up early yesterday morning by some pretty intense thunder and lightening. In a span of about 2 hours the city reportedly received something in the neighb
Borealis Park and The Snye
For the second part of yesterday's trip, I left the Snye for a few minutes to take a look at a small pond at Borealis Park. It was my first time here in quite awhile and usually I can find something of interest swimming around....more grebes and common goldeneye as it turned out. A good reminder that yesterday's retreat from the far side of the Snye was a good idea. Once back to the Snye, I didn'
MacDonald Island and The Snye
I was stuck at home for much of yesterday working around the house and fighting a winning a war against my washing machine so I wasn't able to get down to MacDonald Island as I had planned. I wasn't sure if the weather was going to cooperate either but today I made up for the delay. Officially I went down to do some birding but I also just really wanted to stretch my legs and enjoy the nice weath
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