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The way I heard it from a French girlfriend, was that in the early days of settlement (400 years ago) it was very cold and heating was difficult in stone houses or crude log cabins, and the fat in tortiere helped warm them up from the inside. I found this to be true when I experimented with a...

Actually, there is evidence that the Irish and/or the Scots may have been here long before the Vikings. And Polynesians may have been here as long ago as 13 thousand years.

What is Canadian food? We are such a bunch of mutts representing just about every culture in the world. When I left Montreal to come out west I was astounded to find a sign in every restaurant window announcing they served Western Cuisine. I entered many an establishment trying to figure out...

So, to preserve the peace, I won't make a rebuttal in my typical fashion but just suffice it to say that I don't see that as a very convincing argument. Scott Free, There is no argument or rebuttal. It is just my opinion, my two cents worth in the stew that is this topic. PS: I threw in the...

What scientific data are you talking about? The data that proves or disproves global warming. Scientists can't agree and there is data that goes up and data that goes down. There are as many opinions as there are scientists. Science is the new religion and I am an atheist on this to. My opinion...

I still find it difficult to understand how people can deny that 6+ billion people can dump millions of tons of crap into the atmosphere and water every day and not affect the climate. Is there a gene missing in their DNA or something?

petros, Welcome back. Nothing like facts to confuse the "head in butt" crowd.

Lets resurrect this thread, shall we. Here is a Photoshop montage of three different paintings and drawing that I did a few years ago.

This is something I wrote a few years ago in a regular column in a Nelson philosophical rag. Thought it might stimulate some discussion from the religious and non-religious. Allywayzalwayz was asking for a new topic that isn't being murdered in the News. Like many baby boomers I saw the folly...

This challenges how we relate to each other. YouTube - The Teen Files - Part 2: Lines that Divide Us We could all use a little of this.

The distress we stir on this Earth may be due to the fact we don't belong here. darkbeaver, That is how I've felt about it for decades, and although some have agreed jokingly, I have seen how alien we feel to this environment. I wonder, tough, if aboriginal peoples living in harmony with their...

darkbeaver, Up Yours! ..... Actually it is a good suggestion but I could not resist as this has been the flavour of the last dozen posts. All the scientific theories aside (just for a minute - don't get your bonnets all in a twist) Edgar Case (I think) said that the planets represented the...