12 entries filed this month:
The City of Vancouver Neighbourhood Emergency Preparedness Program (NEPP) has posted on it's page (http://vancouver.ca/emerg/NEPP/) a number of videos. Watch volunteer-produced 10 Steps to Home Preparedness - it's excellent!
I'm very involved in emergency preparedness and response as a volunteer with the city's Disaster Assistance Team and the video even reminded me of something I have neglected to prepare for!
G20 - Cops Charge Protesters at Queen and Spadina, After "O Canada" from Torontoist on Vimeo. (551 words) More …
Attached is a dirt-simple module implementing a movie and actor database. Look ma, no SQL. The core of it is here, with the objects of interest subclassing Durus's Persistent class: (601 words) More …
In the fantasy novel series Harry Potter, Umbridge is a mean spirited toadie who takes over as headmistress of the education system for her boss the Minister of Magic. Umbridge and Cornelius Fudge are well and faithfully portrayed by MacDiarmid and Gordon Campbell. (649 words) More …
Experts Double Estimated Rate of Spill in Gulf - NYTimes.com (1242 words) More …
The BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is now almost 8 weeks on-going. Depending on whose numbers one uses, the underwater gusher may be allowing the equivalent of an Exxon Valdez sized spill every 8 days. That's about 7 Exxon Valdez spills at this point. (339 words) More …
I have taken one liberty with the data and lumped together as one party from the start all Progressive Conservative, Social Credit (remember them?) and Reform/CA votes up to and including the formation of the Conservative Party of Canada. You'll find this data under the series name ReformATory. (284 words) More …
Let's indulge ourselves in a bit of denial first. (1235 words) More …
Are merger/coalition discussions happening? Or is this a resurfacing of the Martin-Chretien war? (258 words) More …
Having lived through the Progressive Conservative Party's morphing into the Conservative Party, I have a perspective on mergers that might be different than those of the average NDP or Liberal member. (722 words) More …
To the tune of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, with all apologies to the great Gordon Lightfoot
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