Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Kill the hydrogen car?

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The Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is in Toronto this week - and in Ottawa and Vancouver - touting his own unique brand of green-ness (h...
Saturday, May 19, 2007

Under-representing Ontario

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Conservative legislation, supposedly aimed at better reflecting Canada's new population demographics by creating more federal seats in ...
Friday, May 18, 2007

Those wacky Hutterites

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I allowed myself a wry smile at the news that Hutterites in Alberta are now no longer required to have photos on their drivers' license...
Thursday, May 17, 2007

Nous sommes Canadian, eh?

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And while I am on the subject of statistics, there were some interesting stats in yesterday's Globe and Mail about language and bilingua...

Trivial Pursuits from The Skeptical Environmentalist

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I have been ploughing (very belatedly, I know) through Bjorn Lomborg's " The Skeptical Environmentalist " - 500-odd pages of c...
Thursday, May 10, 2007

My top 100 albums

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Purely in the interests of personal nostalgia, and absolutely not in the expectation that this will be of interest to anyone else, I have be...
Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Tax plastic bags

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Ontario's (strategically pre-election) announcement that it wants to cut plastic bag use by 50% over 5 years is lame indeed. It seems u...
Friday, May 04, 2007

How much will carbon reductions cost me?

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The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - the third part of their 4th major assessment - purports to d...