One repeat offender stands out as particularly frustrating: copyright disclaimers. As a professional Technologist, I often find myself mythbusting on some friends’ Facebook posts. In this post, I will explain this myth and how you can help stop it from spreading.Myth: Copying and pasting a legal-sounding disclaimer from a friend’s post does not enable you […]
I’ve been hearing a lot about the 15-minute cities lately, and to be honest, I was a little freaked out by the idea at first. (It was first explained to me bysomeone who was determined that it was a conspiracy theory directly related to the “big reset”… So I decided to take matters into my
National identity depends on a shared set of values, often represented in our cultural products. These cultural products include the obvious: our songs, our statues, and our broadcast media – and the less obvious: the way we name roads, bridges, and neighborhoods. The great thing about Canadian national identity is that it’s (traditionally) based on
According to the most recent data I have read, the top five oil-producing nations are the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Russia, Canada, and China. (In that order) So, why are all these US based “groups” all over Canada/Alberta screaming about dirty oil? I’ll tell you, it’s because our sales/exports cut into their profits… and since there
Morning Musings…So, on my drive to work this morning, I saw two people pushing carts along 98th Ave. It looked to me like their entire life’s possessions were in those two carts. My “take” on the situation was that they were heading downtown. No idea why, of course, but that is what I thought. Anyway,
It’s not frustrating to hear Justin Trudeau claim that he’s following “the science” when he’s clearly not, it’s infuriating.On Thursday, Trudeau was speaking to students at Dalhousie University in Halifax when he spoke about his government’s plans on drugs “saving lives significantly.”The hard, cold numbers would say otherwise.Trudeau was asked a heartbreaking question by a
Paul R. Ehrlich – “We must realize that unless we are extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years.” — The New York Times, 1969Ehrlich also predicts “that the oceans will be as dead as Lake Erie in less than a decade.” — Redlands Daily Facts, 1970.“Scientist Predicts a
