Cold enough to do this. Seriously.
January, 2011:
PotashCorp WinterShines 2011
Wendy, Mark, Oliver, and I went down to the PotashCorp WinterShines today. It was beyond chilly. With the wind it was –35 degrees Celcius which is so cold, it freezes your cheeks so you can’t talk. We wandered around the Saskatoon Farmer’s Market, drank some hot chocolate and coffee, and enjoyed the ice sculptures. It [...]
Soocial
As many of you know, I can’t stand the Rockefeller family. I don’t mind their billions, their monopoly, their fame, their famous friends, their place in history. What really bugs me is at the Rockefeller family office in 30 Rock, they have a 8 foot by 8 foot tall custom made Rolodex that keeps all [...]
Why is Haiti stuck?
Everything continues to be centered around one city while the rest of the country is ignored. So why is Haiti stuck? Why has the tyrant Duvalier returned to a country that has not moved forward since he was deposed? The problem seems not to be one of conceptualization but rather execution. On the international side, [...]
Nuclear Waste Moving Through Europe
From National Geographic A Castor railcar glows ominously in a thermal image, but the scene shows only that the cars’ contents are warm—no hotter than a sweltering summer day—said Matthew Bunn, of Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. "The decay of these atoms in the fission products from nuclear reactors releases a [...]
Only 47% of working age American’s have full time jobs
Looking at the January 7 employment report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows some startling numbers and started me thinking about Saskatoon. The total non institutional civilian labor force (Americans 16 years and older who are not in a institution -criminal, mental, or other types of facilities- or an active military duty) [...]
The collapse of the Irish Tiger
Doug Saunders writes in the Globe and Mail that the government in Ireland has collapsed. The party oversaw an escalating series of austerity bills during the past three years that failed to alleviate a crisis driven by over-leveraged private banks. It sealed Ireland’s fate with a 2008 bill that used state funds to bail out [...]
How Twitter/YouTube has changed Foggy Bottom
Good story in the Washington Post The State Department is tightening its embrace of Twitter and other social media as crises grip the Middle East and Haiti, with officials finding new voice, cheek and influence in the era of digital diplomacy. Even as it struggles to contain damage caused by WikiLeaks’ release of classified internal [...]
Removing the Roadblocks to Rehabilitation
There are programs that do rehabilitate offenders. So why are there not more of them. Especially applicable in Canada as the debate over Harper’s prison plan heats up. How can this be, when we profess to be concerned about crime? As taxpayers, we don’t want to pay the costs of incarceration. As citizens, we want [...]
