Tuesday, December 1, 2009

New ideas needed for farmyard, conservatory (The Vancouver Sun, 01 Dec 2009, Page A4)

Economics : Politics

New ideas needed for farmyard, conservatory
PETE McMARTIN
The Vancouver Sun
01 Dec 2009

I’m not sure why a petting zoo is a union shop, but it is. At Stanley Park’s now endangered Children’s Farmyard, the animals are cared for by the brothers and sisters of CUPE Local 1004. They’re classified as outside workers. The farmyard’s budget...read more...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Darwin still evokes awe — and protest (The Vancouver Sun, 21 Nov 2009, Page C1)

Nice portrait.

Darwin still evokes awe — and protest
BY ALLEN ABEL
The Vancouver Sun
21 Nov 2009

WASHINGTON e is the first face you see as you enter from Constitution Avenue: young and pink and beardless; curious, ambitious and still unaware, when this portrait was painted, of the decisive, divisive role he would play in solving the great mystery...read more...
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If you’ve done nothing wrong, you have everything to worry about (The Vancouver Sun, 21 Nov 2009, Page A4)

Well put, Pete!
If you’ve done nothing wrong, you have everything to worry about
PETE McMARTIN
The Vancouver Sun
21 Nov 2009

Whenever someone frets about the erosion of personal freedoms in our modern society, such as in the steady proliferation of surveillance cameras in public places, the stock answer, which is one I read all too often in my e-mail, is: “If you haven’t...read more...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Courtenay declares emergency over flooding

Another rare flood in Courtenay/Comox.
Courtenay declares emergency over flooding

Times Colonist
17 Nov 2009

The wet, windy weather that hit much of the southern B.C. coast yesterday is forecast to continue today, but ease to showers. Courtenay declared a state of emergency at 10:15 a.m. yesterday that included the closing of 13 roads and bridges due to high...read more...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

(The Daily Telegraph, 05 Nov 2009, Page 18)

Original story about Jigme.

By Dean Nelson in New Delhi
The Daily Telegraph
05 Nov 2009

TO HIS old classmates in Boston, Jigme Wangchuk is a normal 11-year-old schoolboy who enjoys baseball. But in India he is worshipped as the reincarnation of one of Buddhism’s holiest figures. Jigme has now entered a monastery in the Himalayan hill...read more...
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Boston boy, 11, enters monastery as reincarnated Buddhist figure (National Post, 05 Nov 2009, Page A16)

Tell me more.
Boston boy, 11, enters monastery as reincarnated Buddhist figure

National Post
05 Nov 2009

To his old classmates in Boston, Jigme Wangchuk is a normal 11-year-old schoolboy who enjoys baseball. But in India he is worshipped as the reincarnation of one of Buddhism’s holiest figures. Jigme has now entered a monastery in Darjeeling to fulfill...read more...
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U.K. to speed up planning for nuclear plants, big wind farms (National Post, 10 Nov 2009, Page FP14)

Accelerating change.
U.K. to speed up planning for nuclear plants, big wind farms

National Post
10 Nov 2009

Britain set out plans yesterday to speed up the planning process for big wind farms and new nuclear-power plants and named 10 sites where reactors could be built. Ed Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, said new nuclear plants, combined...read more...
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V’s smoking-hot aliens critique our culture, and have fun with it (The Globe and Mail (Ottawa/Quebec Edition), 10 Nov 2009, Page R3)

Might be worth having a look ;
V’s smoking-hot aliens critique our culture, and have fun with it
JOHN DOYLE TELEVISION jdoyle@globeandmail.com
The Globe and Mail (Ottawa/Quebec Edition)
10 Nov 2009

L and Global. Why V? Well it’s got everything, especially va-va-vavoom, lovely aliens. Gee, they’re hot, making all the Earth-bound people – even the leading ladies and men – look way ordinary. What it really has, mind you, is some brains behind it....read more...
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God save the Press (Der Tagesspiegel, 12 Nov 2009, Page 31)

German newspaper commentary from London

God save the Press
Von Matthias Thibaut, London
Der Tagesspiegel
12 Nov 2009

Murdoch gegen Google: Internetnutzer und Zeitungsleser verfolgen den Kampf, der für die Zukunft der Zeitungen entscheidend werden könnte. Rupert Murdoch, Großbritanniens wichtigster Zeitungsverleger, will um die teuer produzierten Inhalte seiner...read more...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Walkouts at climate talks (Sun Sentinel Broward Edition, 04 Nov 2009, Page 8A)



Walkouts at climate talks
By Arthur Max
Sun Sentinel Broward Edition
04 Nov 2009

BARCELONA, Spain — Boycotts on both sides of the Atlantic on Tuesday showed just how difficult it will be to clinch an agreement on global warming next month. At U.N. climate talks in Barcelona, African nations walked out of meetings to protest rich...read more...
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Russia vanishings mushroom (New York Post, 31 Oct 2009, Page 6)



Russia vanishings mushroom

New York Post
31 Oct 2009

MOSCOW — Irina Fedino was expecting a pleasant walk when she went to pick mushrooms near her home in the Russian Urals. She returned almost a month later, emaciated and covered in mosquito bites, to tell her husband that she had been lost in the...read more...
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Lightless cyclists playing Russian roulette (Times Colonist, 03 Nov 2009, Page A10)

Some helpful words of wisdom.

Lightless cyclists playing Russian roulette
DAVE OBEE
Times Colonist
03 Nov 2009

The past couple of evenings have been scary, and it’s not because of ghosts and goblins and Halloween hijinks or those lost souls who took pleasure in trampling on the rights of others in Cook Street Village during the Olympic torch relay. There is...read more...
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Sunday, August 2, 2009

Passionate Fringer

“People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.” --Ted Koppel
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