Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Lies, damned lies and polar bear statistics

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Here is just another example of how difficult it is to get hard, definitive information on global warming and related issues. The Globe and ...
Monday, March 26, 2007

Belated Canadian action on hybrid cars

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We missed the recent Canadian federal budget as we were sunning ourselves in Mexico, but it seems to have been almost unanimously character...
Monday, March 12, 2007

Not much of a dreamer

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After a conversation about dreams with some of my (female) soccer buddies in the pub the other evening, I started to worry that I was even m...

Some recommended non-fiction

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Unusually for me, I have been reading quite a lot of non-fiction recently, courtesy of the excellent Toronto Public Library . Along with a h...
Thursday, March 08, 2007

Canada still a positive influence

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A recent BBC World/Globescan poll of 28,000 people in 27 countries has landed Canada in the enviable No 1 position as regards international...
Saturday, March 03, 2007

Canada meekly follows US time change nonsense

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I can't believe that, because the Americans have decided in their (somewhat suspect) wisdom that summer daylight-saving time is suddenly...
Wednesday, February 28, 2007

House and Home Part 2 - Lighting

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Having settled the question of dishwashers once and for all (to my own satisfaction anyway), I turned my attention to those new religious ic...
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

House and Home Part 1 - Washing the dishes

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So, let's lighten up today and look at something a little more domestic and quotidian. Dishwashing. You can't get much more domestic...