Recently I read Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America by Shelagh D. Grant. An adjunct professor in the Canadian Studies Program at Trent University, Grant has written extensively about the Canadian Arctic. “Researching this book dominated much of my time for the last thirty years”...
A good friend of mine put this on my facebook the other day. It has very little to do with the middle east, elections, the state of the world. It IS hilarious though, and should be shared! April 11th – site re launch is coming soon! Enjoy
Lately there has been a lot of news about Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Reactor, and the issues they have had with it since the tsunami washed over the city of Fukushima after the strongest earthquake since the 2004 Inidan Ocean quake. Earthquake aside, the tsunami damaged the water pumps at...
It’s official, and not very surprising. Early in May is the likely date to vote for for the 41st Parliament. The motion of non-confidence to vote the Harper Government in contempt of Parliament was passed today, and the opposition parties won 156 in favour to 145 against. This is...
Late this afternoon the Federal Harper Government announced where all of our dollars would be going in the coming year. Here is some of the response headlines thus far: “Spring election likely as all three opposition parties reject Tory budget” (NatPost) “Opposition leaders reject federal budget” (CBC) “Opposition won’t...
This isn’t good for them, you, oil prices or Justin Bieber. Qatif is a city in the east of Saudi Arabia. What makes it interesting are threefold. It is a Shi’ite dominated city in a Sunni dominated country It is in Saudi Arabia’s east, meaning there is lots and...
I made some enemies this weekend. I was supposed to go to Windsor for two separate parties. I agreed to meet a longtime friend of mine for dinner before the trip down. The friend is Stacie Roper, lead singer of Hey Romeo, a multiple Canadian Country Music Award winning...
Those Persians! There’s been a lot of talk over the role that Iran is playing with the unrest in the middle east. Needless to say, they’re probably pretty excited. When I say ‘they’ I mean the establishment in Tehran. Bahrain is super small. It’s like the Orono, ON of...
Yes he is. And on Sunday he nearly took home an Academy Award for his documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop. In fact, he should have won except that his documentary isn’t a real documentary. It’s much more of a social experiment in Banksy’s traditional style. My most...
China. What a place. For the first time in… 64 years there have been protests in multiple provinces over a single issue. That single issue is about the Communist Party and how they’re running the show. Back in the day, when Mao was running the show everything revolved around...
