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10 Landscapes of Smoke and Mirrors
Mirages have long left us spellbound. Their power to play tricks on our minds endlessly fascinates, while the image of an exhausted traveller in a desert being fooled into seeing an oasis in the distance is part of popular folklore. Modern science has made the way these bewildering optical phenomena work less hazy, but mirages continue to captivate the imagination – and no more so than Fata Morgana, that most bizarre of superior mirages.
Continue reading...2 Storey House Floats to British Colombia
Monday, June 23, 2008
Image by Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times When people move to another town, they usually sell their house and buy another one. Well…not the O’Farrells. Jennifer and Tim found their dream home and liked it so much, they decided to have it shipped to Vancouver Island.
Continue reading...The Canadian Way to Cool Beer [pic]
Monday, June 9, 2008
Image Sources: 1, 2 We Graffiti Artists are often exploring the far-flung corners of the internet. Occasionally we stumble on some real marvels that we’d like to share with you.
Continue reading...Canada To Save Earth From Asteroids
Friday, May 9, 2008
Because this probably hurt. Image from kevinzim Ah, Canada: Home of hockey night, tim bits, and the best hope our planet has of locating and killing asteroids before they can blot out life as we know it.
Continue reading...Are Polar Bears On A Deathwatch?
Monday, April 21, 2008
Everybody take along look at the picture below, and prepare yourself to mist up a little bit when Coca-Cola begins running their annual wintertime commercials… Image from sabinche The World Wildlife Fund has declared that polar bears will be extinct by 2050 unless the Canadian government can lead the [...]
Continue reading...To solve the climate crisis, we must solve the democracy crisis
Monday, April 21, 2008
Brian Gordon is a Canadian Green Party member and candidate trained by Al Gore to present An Inconvenient Truth. Coming to that realization motivated me to become a Canadian Green Party candidate… Image via National Parks Service On Wikipedia Our democracy has been hijacked by special interests, primarily corporate, but [...]
Continue reading...Canada Says Baby Seals Will be Clubbed ‘More Humanely’
Monday, March 10, 2008
Canada’s government says it is imposing new rules to ensure seals are killed “more humanely”. Image from SSCS Ottawa has been heavily criticized for allowing hunters to shoot and club hundreds of thousands of seals to death each year.
Continue reading...China’s Solar Hot Water Capacity Will Soon be Equivalent to 40 Nuclear Plants
Friday, February 22, 2008
How far behind are Canada and the United States? How about these for eye-opening statistics: Solar collectors on the roof of an apartment block in Xian, China. Image by Richard Chambers
Continue reading...Canada at Bali: Oh, the Shame
Saturday, December 8, 2007
I am a Canadian, and I am ashamed that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is from Canada. How far has democracy fallen, when we have a majority of the population that favors action on averting
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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