Pierre Bourque runs a top notch news site in Canada.
I’ve had the opportunity to email him on occasion, and I have great respect for his dedication and courtesy. His words below hold earned merit and urgency:
A personal message from Pierre: “Folks, you’ve been following the terribly destructive effect of Hurricane Katrina. Hundreds, likely thousands, of [...]

Spam blogs (Splots) are blogs mostly hosted on Googles popular platform Blogspot that exist to generate links and promote a product.
This post took a look at 50 blogs and found 30 were spam blogs.
That’s 60%. Redoing the test with 150 blogs,there were 63 generating and spewing pure spam.
Even though I expected some amount [...]

Canada is heading into a winter election.
There are all kinds of issues on the table.
This remains one.
Two generations have worked to settle this softwood lumber dispute.
So when I see the rhetoric being turned up, my hope is that Canadians that have not been directly affected will start to understand our options.
McKenna likened Washington’s action to [...]

Four days after Hurricane Katrina hit South Florida, people are coping without electricity and many of the basics of life.
Katrina was downgraded to a category four as it hit the gulf coast of the US last night.
The eye of the storm wobbled as it approached land, sparing the city of New Orleans the worst [...]

Today was a walk-away-from-it-all-day, and I wound up walking up to the local MP.
It didn’t start out that way, it started out as a golf day.
Not hard core 18 hole golf, the kind my siblings consistently clobber me at - mini golf.
I’m a part of a competitive family in denial.:^)
There are two mini-golf sites in [...]

I haven’t been near the computer or the TV at all today, haven’t been following the news, simply because there are times I need to walk away from my information addiction, and my family and I are trying to take mini vacations as summer winds down.
When I went to bed last night Katrina was crawling [...]

JHK: Yeah, and people generally misunderstand what the implications are. A lot of people think it’s about running out of oil. It isn’t particularly about running out of oil. It’s about living in an industrial society that can no longer expect to have more energy but only remorselessly less energy.
RB: You talk about fuel as [...]

You can’t make this stuff up.
A US hate group run by Fred Phelps is heading to Sweden.
Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church having nothing good to say about the country or it’s monarchy.
It started in 2003 when a 63 year old Swedish pentecostal named Ake Green preached a sermon to about 75 people in the [...]