Originally posted on Gourken's Brain Dump (more of a trickle actually):
Canada is about to turn 150. Imagine that! I am old enough to remember the excitement and anticipation of Canada’s 100th birthday. Bobby Gimby, the Pied Piper of Canada, penned the wonderful anthem for our 100th birthday “Canada“. They designed an amazing symbolic…
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How many days until Canada’s 150th Birthday
Let’s all do something special to celebrate this wonderful country! You better get started now if you want to be ready. How many days until 1st July 2017?.
Canada 150 … what are YOU going to do?
Canada is about to turn 150. Imagine that! I am old enough to remember the excitement and anticipation of Canada’s 100th birthday. Bobby Gimby, the Pied Piper of Canada, penned the wonderful anthem for our 100th birthday “Canada“. They designed an amazing symbolic maple leaf as a logo that taught me more about geometry than […]
Please pass a strengthened Reform Act (and similar changes in every province)
Letter from Elizabeth May in response to Democracy Watch letter on Strengthening Parliamentary Institutions
A better way to recycle plastics? Mike Biddle replies to questions and comments about his 2011 TEDTalk
This is a follow-on article to Mike Biddle’s excellent video on new ways of dealing with plastics recycling. In this article (originally published on the TED.COM website, Mike responds to a number of questions that arose from his original TED talk. He deals with the thorny issue of getting the waste to one of the […]
The Story of Change : a new video from the makers of the “Story of Stuff”
This video is all about empowerment. It is all about acting on our commitments…to the environment, to social justice, to each other. It is about supporting our government’s initiatives for becoming a “World Class Regulator“. As with other “stuff” video, this one makes its point in the same clear logical fashion, taking us from being […]