Bloggers Block… items of 2006

Call it fatigue.. call it New Years blaahhhgs.. call it laziness. The meat of the matter is that I just haven't felt compelled to blog recently. Th news lately has been particularly uninspiring. The Ukraine and Russia... in a tiff over gas delivery at market prices... threatened to destabilize gas supplies for a large part …

Manitoba Selkirk riding… Vote for this man

Ed Schreyer, former premier of Manitoba and Governor General of Canada impressed me today. I was on one of my favourite sites... The Oil Drum and ran across this article referencing this recent essay written by Ed Shreyer who is now apparently "on the Board of the International Institute for Sustainable Development". It is quite …

World Junior Hockey, Sport imitates life?

As the World Junior Hockey Championship continues in Vancouver, I can't help but use it for my own twisted political means... err, I mean as a interesting way to revisit a continuing issue. That issue is, America's International "image", particularly with it's closest neighbour, and traditional ally, Canada. We all know that as the Iraq …