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Michael Crichton is trying to sell his book. A book, a work of fiction, that contradicts the evidence of global warming. The scientific method of research is exactly that. A majority of Climatologists have produced results that others in the field have reproduced. Consensus is not some...

Goodbye, Harry Potter Fans speculate on how beloved children's book series will wind up Montreal Gazette; CanWest News Service Published: Tuesday, July 17 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final instalment in the mega-popular book series, will be released Saturday. Fans around the...

World document.write(dateTranslator.displayLong('July 19, 2007 6:48:00 AM MDT')); Thursday, July 19, 2007 Reports: Japanese nuclear power plant had additional leak after earthquake KASHIWAZAKI, Japan (AP) - Japanese regulators...

Harper failing to sway country BRIAN LAGHI From Thursday's Globe and Mail...

Does this sound like an absolute scam to anybody else? Ottawa's real-estate deal is bad for taxpayers JOHN GORDON Globe and...

Anarchy In 1992, after the fall of the Communists, Kabul, traditionally a Pushtun city, fell under control of Tajiks Rabbani and Massoud and an Uzbek Doustum. This has immediately provoked a new war — this time between the mujaheds themselves — when Pushtun Hikmetyar besieged Kabul. Since...

I turned off my computer last night when a thunderstorm started. When I turned it on this morning my AVG started complaining about a kernel change.............Somewhere along the line they changed into 4 threats and then it called up "Trojan Horse Proxy POG". Eventually the threats were...

I think we are talking about "buckwheat kasha", Either whole grain or cracked buckwheat cooked like rice. Has more flavour than rice.

Section 29 Was a dish named after one of the sections on the family farm in Saskatchewan that was almost too hilly to plow. Section 29 was basically a rich beef stew in a big pan with biscuits baked on the top. Somebody commented that it looked like that hilly section and the name stuck...

After a rather dismal Spring, we are now into decent Summer weather. In Nanaimo where I live, we are expecting 34 degrees today and 36 degrees tomorrow. Cambell River is about the same. Kelowna will get 37 tomorrow, as will Vancouver, and Lytton will hit 41 degrees. I love it. The only...

What's right about our health-care system by Robert Evans and Noralou Roos Economics Prof. Robert Evans is a director of population health with UBC's Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; Noralou Roos is co-director of the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation. The...

Bombers claim more lives in Iraq WALEED IBRAHIM Reuters...

The subject came up on another topic this morning. I thought Faulty Towers deserved a separate topic by it's self. I just ran across this link this morning. Does anybody have a favorite episode? Comments? http://www.fawltysite.net/episodes.htm

Chinese cars perform horribly in crash tests by Auto123.com, auto123.com (June 27, 2007) If recent crash test results are any indication, then North American automakers have little to worry about in terms of a Chinese invasion. Recent videos and images circulating the internet show some...

I remember the Watkin's salesman....he had a suitcase full of bottles of this, cans of that, a different kind of snake oil for everything that ailed you.

God, are Watkin's still around? We used to see the Watkin's guy about every three months.

Yet another bloody roadside bomb and six more Canadian soldiers are dead. http://tinyurl.com/2j879t

Now there's a topic that goes back a couple years. When our kids were young we used to make root beer every summer. We used a kit from a company called "Hires". Seems to me we used to get about a hundred bottles out of a double batch. The kids thought it was funny to have root beer in coke...

Restaurants are only as good as the last time you were there: The Dingy Dock Pub is a winner every time we've been there: Best seafood, and fish and chips around.. DINGHY DOCK PUB Canada’s only floating pub. Located on Protection Island at 8 Pirate’s Lane. Ferry leaves at...

There are several places like that around.......I think it's a franchise......;-):-P