It’s Getting Hot In Here

Well, Sir Richard Branson is taking it seriously, I think,….offering a 25 Million dollar prize to anyone who can invent a way to extract greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The announcment was made with Al Gore… This comes a few months after Branson committed 3 billion to investigating alternative fuel development.

A little motivation to keep Canadian Companies accountable…..

Following is a video that someone pointed me towards on Google video. The following is the excerpt accompanying the video, made by some people with the NGO Rights Action.
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Although I was unable to make the journey to Nairobi this year, I did have the incredible pleasure of watching the clip of Rona Ambrose doing the notorious ‘its hot in here’ dance. I am sure anyone who witnessed that either directly or indirectly is wondering if, following Stephen Harpers cabinet shuffle, new environment minister John Baird will have similar moves. Continue reading ‘Musical Chairs’

I have only ever really recieved two reactions when telling people from outside of Canada that I am from Manitoba. The first being ‘where?’, which I follow with the explanation that it is basically dead centre in the middle of Canada. Those who have some idea of the location, as well as those recently enlightened to a small portion of Canadian geography universally respond with some comment regarding the frigid temperatures that the Canadian prairies are notorious for.

Continue reading ‘Who said the prairies were cold…?’

Whereas red and blue, and a little bit of orange have tended to maintain a monopoly on political representation through colour, at least in a corner of Canada some green has started to appear on the map. In the recent (Nov. 27th, 2006) by-election in the London North Centre (LNC) riding in Ontario, Federal Green Party Leader Elizabeth May managed to capture 25.84% of the vote, increasing the Green Party of Canada’s support in the riding by 371% since the January, 2006 federal elections. Continue reading ‘The Emerging Colour of Canadian Politics’