This is not my story. But having read it I wanted to post it somewhere in addtion to just hitting “boost” on Mastodon. The murder of health insurance CEO has very much stimulated discussion of how bad the American health care system has become as capitalism has emerged from the restraints that were being observed ..read more

This is a media release that I am simply going to paste in full. It is, I think Good News, and we need as much of that as we can get right now. It is also Canadian. Researchers from McGill University and Université du Québec à Montreal (UQAM) have found a new approach to making ..read more

I started to write a review of this book about the time I finished it. I was thinking of copying the cover but did a search and found this link I am a big fan of Grisham’s and try to get a hold of all of his books as soon as they come out. “Camino ..read more

I am currently waiting for open heart surgery. As part of that Waiting Period I was given a spiral bound book entitled “to the Cardiac Surgery Patient”. It was last updated in April 2019 and I am afraid that I have to report more than one shortcoming. It does have lots of space devoted to ..read more

This blog post will be a copy of the Press Release received today from prnewswire. The release is too long to be cut and pasted into a thread on Mastodon, but I think is very important and deserves to be read – on both sides of the border. BELLINGHAM, Wash.—U.S. Tribal Nations along British Columbia’s ..read more

This blog post will be a copy of the Press Release received today from prnewswire. The release is too long to be cut and pasted into a thread on Mastodon, but I think is very important and deserves to be read – on both sides of the border. BELLINGHAM, Wash.—U.S. Tribal Nations along British Columbia’s northwestern and southern borders are denouncing a new proposal that would give them a separate and diminished voice in large development projects impacting  their traditional homelands and watersheds.  In Alaska, a group of Tribes with ancestral homelands along BC’s transboundary ..read more

In 2004 I found myself unemployed. By some strange coincidence this morning I read a post from Ben Parfitt “Thanks for the Great Ride“. It seems that just as I was looking for a new job he had found one: “my new capacity as a resource policy analyst with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC Office.” I wasn’t exactly clear on the precise date of either event, so I went looking in my filing cabinet and came across this document My now former ITE membership. I had not been a member of ITE before but I did possess an ITE coffee mug. Sadly its gilt identity wore off many years ago but I ..read more

Can I insert images just by relying on Flickr URL’s? Tap and Barrel Bridges is the new temporary home of “Hyperion – Titan of Light,” a stunning outdoor sculpture by local artist Benjamin Lumb! “Hyperion is composed of 5ton bundle of crushed rebar ripped from the concrete walls of a demolished Vancouver building that now emerges from its own concrete foundation. Pulsating neon is woven throughout the twisted rebar emulating its form while a chain rachet is bound tight around its center storing static energy within. A giant ship chain encircling and appearing to float around the piece is begin ..read more

Today I got a largish email from Jarret Walker, who I greatly admire. This blog post is just a cut and paste of much of what he sent me. I will be asking for a review copy of his new book and that could also lead to a review here in due course, but even without reading I would recommend you look at his offer of a discounted price. There was going to be a picture of the cover here but WordPress tells me that at 123kb it is “too big” Our big news for 2024 is the Revised Edition of my book Human Transit, which goes on sale February 6.First published in 2011, Human Transit is one ..read more

Can I insert images just by relying on Flickr URL’s? Tap and Barrel Bridges is the new temporary home of “Hyperion – Titan of Light,” a stunning outdoor sculpture by local artist Benjamin Lumb! “Hyperion is composed of 5ton bundle of crushed rebar ripped from the concrete walls of a demolished Vancouver building that now emerges from its own concrete foundation. Pulsating neon is woven throughout the twisted rebar emulating its form while a chain rachet is bound tight around its center storing static energy within. A giant ship chain encircling and appearing to float around the piece is begin ..read more