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I've about had it up to here(up to my ears) with the National Student loan center. This year has been perhaps the worst yet. In the past I've had a number of issues, but this year it's been one thing after another. It started when somehow my password was changed. On top of that, the security...

A new Study by the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives has just released a report on the Canadian tax system. The report concludes that: Higher income earners have reaped larger benefits than low and middle income earners. Indeed the lowest income earners have had an increase to their tax...

Bizarre. I can remember when my mother or girlfriends would gripe and complain, and eventually take away privileges for excessive gaming, but I never thought of hiring a hitman. This 16 year old tried to hire a hitman to have his parents killed, and his mother's sting operation caught the little...

Almost one month after the murder of Const. Christopher Worden in Hay River NWT, another Mountie has been shot dead. This time, it happened in the northern village of Kimmirut, in Iqaluit. Twenty year old Const. Douglas Scott was found dead by his fellow officer in the small hamlet after...

Well, the title of the book is actually Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments. When Tusko the Elephant woke in his pen at the Lincoln Park Zoo on the morning of August 3, 1962, little did he know that he was about to become the test subject in an experiment to determine what happens...

Politics is a funny thing. It's like a great magician. When the trick is performed flawlessly, we all sit there wondering how it happened. A great politician uses the same basic skills as the magician; slight of hand, illusionary tricks and most definitely, showing you only what they want you to...

If the National Hurricane Center in Dartmouth is correct, we'll be having a wet and stormy weekend here in Atlantic Canada. It appears that the storm will be re-intensifying, and could be a category 1 hurricane when it makes landfall. At least one hundred millimeters for Nova Scotia from Noel...

So, the pundits are predicting some form of tax cuts are coming today. As our economy grows, and the price of resources rises, our government is making much more money than they are spending. So, the question is, what to do with that money? I'm not so sure we should jump to tax cuts. I think...

Ortiz calls Kelley an alarmist who likes to "stir things up" in the minority community Kelley accuses Ortiz of sacrificing the community's welfare in exchange for slim tax revenue from the plants. One man represents Port Arthur the way it has always been; the other symbolizes a growing call for...

So far this week, two stories have caught my eye. The first was the slowdown of oceanic uptake of carbon dioxide. I posted somewhere earlier this week that as the concentration has grown in the atmosphere, that has forced carbon dioxide to dissolve into the oceans. Well along comes a finding by...

For those who don't know, Cochrane is a town west of Calgary. In Cochrane, they have a mural, comprised of many smaller pictures. You can click on each one to see the picture, which is a one square foot tile. Very cool. http://www.muralmosaic.com/Cochrane.html

Earlier this year, the Supreme court ruled that CO2 and other greenhouse gases indeed do count as a pollutant under the EPA. This is something I have argued for a long time now. It doesn't matter that it is found in the atmosphere, anymore than it matters that cyanide is found in the biosphere...

Came across an interesting article today. The introductory paragraph: The article uses three examples of 'wisdom of crowds' systems, which the author asserts have similar functionality to evolution: 1. Wikipedia 2. Prediction markets 3. Recommendation systems It's a bit of a read, but I think...

The Toronto star has uncovered a plan by Harper to supplant the National Press Gallery, with a government controlled media center. According to the documents obtained via an Access to Information request, the plan code named Shoe Store Project has been in the works for a year. Harper has had a...

Is it just me or does something not look right here?

This is really pathetic. Some of you may remember a petition some years back from the Oregon Institute of Science and medicine. It was known as the "Oregon Petition," and famous for having approximately 17,800 signatures giving their "expert" support against the Kyoto Protocol. Scrutiny of that...

Harper just now is announcing that there is an agreement between the Federal Government and the Province of Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia will still have to choose from one of the two formulas, but in the future should the equalization formula result in a loss, say if there is a growth in oil and gas...

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent//wfaa071004_lj_saggy.139a1356c.html I just have a funny picture in my head of students trying to run laps while wearing the saggy pants:lol:

http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0030009XBNYU This isn't actually the first lawsuit, thoguh it is the first P2P case to go to trial by a jury. The RIAA alleges that Miss Thomas distributed over 1700 copyrighted files in 2005. Further still: Seems they're ramping up the pressure.

Canadian air drops 'save lives', avoid risky Afghan roads Matthew FisherCanWest News Service Sunday, September 30, 2007 Capt. Aidan Costelloe, left, briefs his C-130 Hercules crew before an airdrop. His loadmaster, Sgt. Rob Gearns looks on.ABOVE GHORAK, Afghanistan - Canada has begun making...