Archive for July, 2006

Flying Home by the Light of Polaris

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Harper heads for Cyprus; taking 120 evacuees from Lebanon home on his plane Statement by the Prime Minister on Cyprus Airlift Harper's first major diplomatic foray ends with dramatic flight to Cyprus Where there is immanent danger and drama, there is great political opportunity... and someone in Stephen Harper's administration knows that. "Psst, hey ...

Penguins CAN Fly

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Teen with cerebral palsy swims Lake Ontario Using only her arms, teen swims across Lake Ontario Jenna vs. Lake Ontario Thirty-two kilometres (20 miles), that's how far Jenna Lambert, a resident of my own home town, swam - using only her arms to keep her afloat. She is the first disabled woman to ...

Harping on Wait Times

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Harper makes medical wait-times promise disappear from priorities list Stephen Harper's new game: Hide-the-Priority In Canadian Politics one thing that has always been able to be said about our right-wing Conservative politicians is that, for better or worse, they do what they promised to do during election campaigns. It had always impressed ...

Boobies ‘n Coppers ‘n Hurricanes, oh my…

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Warm ocean worries hurricane forecasters Forecasters at the CHC (Canadian Hurricane Centre) are keeping an eye on warmer-than-usual waters off Canada's East coast. What this means for the hurricane season is that we may see storms linger on longer and sustain hurricane-force winds farther north. Warm water feeds hurricane and while ...

Make Authorized Use of Force, Not War

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

First, the informative... Freescale Unveils Magnetic Memory Chip Freescale Semiconductor Inc., a spinoff of the Motorola company, has developed a new form of storage memory dubbed MRAM (for magnetoresistive random access memory). It differs from convention RAM in that it does not rely on static charge to maintain its information. It works ...