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Interesting
NASA Reveals A List Of The Best Air Purifying Plants For Your Home
Link http://canyouactually.com/best-air-purifying-plants/?fbclid=IwAR2i4cN2q3DIOTh1lj5H4mX01eaqyH73jecCDu83CF_x26aM9bgXHaPFst8
Link http://canyouactually.com/best-air-purifying-plants/?fbclid=IwAR2i4cN2q3DIOTh1lj5H4mX01eaqyH73jecCDu83CF_x26aM9bgXHaPFst8
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Are you listening Alberta?
'It's pretty brutal, pretty unforgiving': Why the West should move beyond an oilpatch economy
Petroleum industry jobs are only a good living if you prepare for the bust, which always comes
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-rylan-higgins-oil-patch-1.5358248?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&fbclid=IwAR3lG_yelPOK0vPLsrdiuRarXCGYeiyV6fSSeQ2toUoZQBPTMobXTt516Y0
Petroleum industry jobs are only a good living if you prepare for the bust, which always comes
Perhaps there is no other topic for which I am better prepared to write commentary than the oil and gas industry.
Ask my finger, it's a bit crooked thanks to a close encounter of the steel kind while working in Alberta's oil fields. Or ask my high-school girlfriend — during a dinner in the late 1980s, her mom could not quite grasp the subtleties of me dancing around the fact that our house had been repossessed by the bank after a downturn. Or ask the hundreds of oil and gas workers who have participated in research I've undertaken.
Growing up an oilpatch brat, working in the industry, conducting long-term social science research on its impacts — I am confident saying the energy sector is not all it's cracked up to be.
Importantly, this is not commentary on the workers, families and communities that support the industry. To them, I tip my hard hat.
But after a convoy of oilpatch workers recently headed to Edmonton to counter the public environmentalism of Greta Thunberg, I felt compelled to remind people what they were defending.
Monday, November 18, 2019
Harper's abuse of power
Harper is a serial abuser of power. Here are 70 facts to prove it.
Let us be clear: Stephen Harper is a serial abuser of power.
Over nine years of the Harper government has seen the most outrageous abuses of power in Canadian history.
Who was the first government in Canadian history to be found in contempt of Parliament? The Harper government.
Which party violated election laws or ethics at least 17 times? The Harper Conservatives.
And the list of abuses goes on.
Link http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/rabble-staff/2015/10/harper-serial-abuser-power-heres-70-facts-to-prove-it#at_pco=smlrebv-1.0&at_si=5d80f69a0bdef362&at_ab=per-2&at_pos=0&at_tot=5
It's about time somebody inside MSM speaks up
Revolt Grows in Vancouver Sun and Province Newsroom over Op-ed Policies
‘What happened to The Sun?’ asks a staffer’s widely circulated internal email.
fter an op-ed calling for Canada to abandon diversity and tolerance provoked outrage, Vancouver Sun and Province editor-in-chief Harold Munro published an apology Saturday, addressed staff on Monday, and issued a memo with proposed fixes to the system on Wednesday.
If he thought that would calm his newsroom, he was wrong.
The offending opinion piece, by Calgary college instructor Mark Hecht, argued Canada should “say goodbye to diversity, tolerance and inclusion” or risk unraveling as a society. It cited discredited reports by an anti-Muslim think tank.
The piece reportedly was greenlighted by Sun and Province editorial pages editor Gordon Clark without Munro’s sign-off. Almost as soon as it was published, many Sun and Province journalists condemned it on social media.
Link https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/09/13/Vancouver-Sun-Province-Newsroom-Revolt-Grows-Over-Op-Ed-Policies/
Thanks Ivan
Sunday, November 17, 2019
Obituary.....
An Obituary printed in the London Times.....Absolutely Dead Brilliant!!tToday we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who
has been with us for many years.No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long
ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
- Why the early bird gets the worm;
- Life isn't always fair;
- And maybe it was my fault.Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend
more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing
regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the
job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.It declined even further when schools were required to get parental
consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses;
and criminals received better treatment than their victims.Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a
burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed
to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot .
She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.Common Sense was preceded in death,
-by his parents, Truth and Trust,
-by his wife, Discretion,
-by his daughter, Responsibility,
-and by his son, Reason.He is survived by his 5 stepchildren;
- I Know My Rights
- I Want It Now
- Someone Else Is To Blame
- I'm A Victim
- Pay me for Doing NothingNot many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing
Ever hear of Pineberries? Me neither
Pineberries: The White Strawberries That Taste Like Pineapple
Revived, ancient pineberries are more nutritious and delicious than red strawberries. You’ll be hard-pressed to find them in the grocery store, but they’re easy to grow.
Around 1650 a sailor brought the first tiny red strawberries from North America to Europe (known then as red scarlets). About a century later, another European sailor brought home the first white strawberries from South America.
It was around that time, 1750, that the two strawberry species spontaneously crossed and created the mother of all modern strawberries: Fragaria Ananassa. Her seedlings came in two varieties: red and white.
The white berries were female and came to be known as pineberries, while the red berries were male and came to be known as strawberries.
Saturday, November 16, 2019
About Goose Village
The battle for Bridge-Bonaventure
The inhospitable district south of downtown Montreal will soon be reborn, and that comes with high
Thanks Ivan
Winter never left the Saint-Michel snow dump
Montreal's glacier: Where the snow survived summer
Link https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-snow-dump-glacier-summer-ice-1.5316292
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-snow-dump-glacier-summer-ice-1.5316292
Thanks Ivan
Link https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-snow-dump-glacier-summer-ice-1.5316292
Thanks Ivan
Friday, November 15, 2019
Don Cherry went to far once again
The poppy is representative of the ultimate price paid by men and women in the liberation of people they did not know, cultures they did not understand and languages they did not speak to give them the gift of freedom...
What Don Cherry's rant did was try to take that freedom away, it added fuel to an already burning problem. When you read the poem it becomes painfully obvious the Cherry did not understand it's meaning.
What Don Cherry's rant did was try to take that freedom away, it added fuel to an already burning problem. When you read the poem it becomes painfully obvious the Cherry did not understand it's meaning.
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
4-YEAR-OLD'S FIRST PAY CHECK
4-YEAR-OLD'S
FIRST PAY CHECK
Here's a truly
heart-warming story
about the bond
formed between a
little 4-year-old girl
and some
construction workers
that will make you
believe that we all can
make a difference
when we give a child
the gift of our time.
Love the ending!
A young family moved
into a house, next to a
vacant lot. One day,
a
construction crew turned up to start building a house on the empty
lot. The young family's 4-year-old daughter naturally took an
interest in all the activity going on next door and spent much of
each day observing the workers.
construction crew turned up to start building a house on the empty
lot. The young family's 4-year-old daughter naturally took an
interest in all the activity going on next door and spent much of
each day observing the workers.
Eventually the
construction crew, all
of them
"gems-in-the-rough,"
more - or - less,
adopted her as a kind
of project mascot.
They chatted with her,
let her sit with them
while they had coffee
and lunch breaks, and
gave her little jobs to
do here and there to
make her feel
important.
At the end of the first
week, they even
presented her with a
pay envelope
containing a $10
check. The little girl
took this home to her
mother who
suggested that she
take her $10 "pay"
she'd received to
the bank the next day to start a savings account.
the bank the next day to start a savings account.
When the girl and her
mom got to the bank,
the teller was equally
impressed and asked
the little girl how she
had come by her very
own pay check at
such a young age.
The little girl proudly
replied, "I worked last
week with a real
construction crew
building the new
house next door to
us."
"Oh my goodness
gracious," said the
teller, "and will you be
working on the house
again this week,
too?"
The little girl replied,
"I will, if those
assholes at Home
Depot ever deliver the fuckin’ drywall..
Thanks Ivan
Depot ever deliver the fuckin’ drywall..
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