Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Trudeau did not slow down relief efforts, so give him a break

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I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again, but who would be a politician? In particular, who would be a Prime Minister ...
Saturday, April 27, 2019

NEWS: Ground-breaking Taylor Swift video - ho, hum

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I was amused to find an article - on the website of the august BBC, no less! - painstakingly deconstructing the new Taylor Swift music video...
Friday, April 26, 2019

China's Belt and Road Initiative spectacularly badly-named

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If you keep reading about China's "Belt and Road Initiative" and really àdon't know what it means, then you are almost cer...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Official oil sands emissions estimates may be understating the problem

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An aerial study by Environment Canada suggests that the carbon pollution by oil operations in northern Alberta's oil sands, already the ...

Pharmaceutical pollution is the latest environmental issue needing attention

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The presence of active pharmaceutical ingredients in our lake and river water is an acute and increasing problem. A Pollution Probe/Clean...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Kernza is being touted as the new miracle grain

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A new grain called "kernza" is being widely touted as a possible world-saving innovation (but then so was golden rice, and look ...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

Alberta reverts to type - oh, ye gods...

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Ah, Jason Kenney. Where to start? It had to happen, of course. Alberta's little experiment with left-wing philosophy was never going to ...

Link between screen time and inattentiveness cannot be ignored

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Yet another study has shown a strong link between screen time and ADHD in children, but we are still no closer to establishing a causal lin...