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The Pony-Rider by Mark Twain
In 1861, in the course of a stagecoach ride to Nevada with his brother, Mark Twain has a brief encounter with a rider from the already-legendary Pony Express. In a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the “pony-rider”—the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. […]
625 Scientists to Stephen Harper: Don’t Gut the Fisheries Act
March 25, 2012
Dear Prime Minister Harper, cc. Honorable Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans re. Potential amendments to section 35 of the Fisheries Act by D. W. Schindler et al We, a group of Canadian scientists, including many of Canada’s most senior ecologists and aquatic scientists, are writing out of concern that habitat protections are about to […]
Deniers R Us – Claude Allègre
March 17, 2012
One of a continuing series on climate change deniers, their ideas and their allegiances. Claude Allègre, l’imposteur climatique I’ve written about our friend Claude before, the politician-“scientist,” in Simple Sam & the Three Deniers, where I explained that I wouldn’t accuse him of being a fraud for sketching in tree-ring data from the future so long […]
Deniers R Us – Göran Ahlgren
March 11, 2012
The Climate Denier Files. Another one of a continuing series on climate change deniers, who they are and what they think. Göran Ahlgren. For those people who prefer to get their prostate cancers treated by climatologists and their climate opinions handed them by assistant-professors of Organic Chemistry, we have Göran Ahlgren, a Swedish medical doctor […]
Deniers-R-Us: Khabibullo Abdusamatov
March 11, 2012
The climate denier files. An occasional feature profiling members of the climate denier community, addressing their [1] credentials (most have few or no credentials in climate science or related disciplines; many are retired), their [2] affiliations (many are associated with professional climate denial organizations or petrochemical and related interests or have accepted speaking fees, travel […]
1700 UK Scientists Rebut “Fakegate” Emails
March 9, 2012
In 2009, somebody hacked into the computers at the University of East Anglia and accessed and stole a large cache of private email exchanges between climate scientists. Those parties unknown then carefully quote-mined literally 10s of thousands of emails and selected and edited a number of “damaging” out-of-context quotes for wide public release. The usual […]
To Stephen Harper – Set your scientists free
March 5, 2012
The way forward is clear: it is time for the Canadian government to set its scientists free. That statement—a clarion call if ever one was sounded, Gabriel—comes from an unusually sober source. It’s the concluding words of an editorial titled “Frozen Out–Canada’s government should free its scientists to speak to the press, as its US […]
The Circumlocution Office by Charles Dickens
March 5, 2012
The Circumlocution Office was (as everybody knows without being told) the most important Department under Government. No public business of any kind could possibly be done at any time without the acquiescence of the Circumlocution Office. Its finger was in the largest public pie, and in the smallest public tart. It was equally impossible to […]
World Council of Churches Renounces Doctrine of Discovery
March 5, 2012
Anybody who has ever done any research into Aboriginal rights will have encountered the doctrine of discovery. In 1532, Francisco de Vitoria, accepted as one of the fathers of international law, discussed the idea in its then-strictly-legal sense as it was codified in Justinian’s Institutes—i.e. Roman law, church law and the foundation of much European […]
Elections Canada, RCMP to Investigate 31,000 ‘Robo-Call’ Complaints
March 2, 2012
Stephen Harper and the Conservatives have said, “Move along. Nothing happening here.” But the government office with the mandate to investigate citizen complaints into the last election thinks that maybe 31,000 complaints relating to the Conservative dirty tricks Robo-Call scandal deserve a look-see. The Conservatives also rose in Parliament and brought up a campaign of harassing […]
Grandpa Theo
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An Informal Chronology of the Aboriginal Land Question in BC
Father Theo's Blog 
March 27, 2012
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