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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...

Do you think that they mailed this out to environuts as you call them? They mailed this package out to anyone with a science degree. That those names would even appear on their list of 'experts' speaks to the credibility of their selection process. Are you in the habit of accepting non-peer...

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...

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I don't know how many times this has to be said. Crichton is worng, and he is right. You only need one scientist to say something. The consensus in this case involves many investigators from multiple disciplines in science with convergent results. Biologists, chemists, physicists, and all of the...

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...

I can't believe no one made the obvious comment about eating beaver, yumm!

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...

He then goes on to say there is immense secrecy in how the models work. Wrong. I can download the models used by NASA GISS, and the appropriate instructions on how it works. I can download the source code of the newest model E if I want. I can download the model documentation, where it explains...

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

I can't believe we're seeing that, do you know whose name appeared on that list of 19000 names? Gerri Halliwell. Apparently the Spice Girl has a Ph.D. Also, Perry Mason, the famed TV lawyer. The names have since been removed. Seitz is up to his old tricks again. Heres a link to that story, I...

For those who make their own wines, Triedit and Dexter, do you grow your own grapes, or is it one of those kit dealies? I'm not a big fan of those kits, but I do love the other option I mentioned. When I was going to school in Fredericton, a friend of mine invited me over to his uncles for...

Is that what poachers have to tell themselves I wonder....

Jost vineyards in Nova Scotia has won international awards for it's wine. It's very good, as good as anything coming out of Australia, California or South Africa.