Stencil graffiti in Truro., originally uploaded by john durrant.
This graffito done by stencil and spray paint has the look of a virus or a space station.
Stencil graffiti in Truro., originally uploaded by john durrant.
This graffito done by stencil and spray paint has the look of a virus or a space station.
They lost my trust when Harper broke his own newly minted law to call an election when he happened to be ahead in the polls. It was an opportunistic attempt to get a majority, which failed. He thinks he can make and break therules to suit himself.
He’s also saying that it’s inappropriate to share power with a bunch of separatists like the Bloc Québecois, but his own party signed an agreement with the Bloc in 2004 to share power. So he’s a hypocrite. The other parties do have a right to form a government if they can, by calling for a non-confidence vote.
The opposition parties say he’s not moving fast enough to ameliorate the economic downturn. That’s a bit of an excuse, but o save his bacon, he’s asking the Governor General to suspend Parliament until late January. That will stop all activity to take swift action.
The CBC’s interactive map has online voting results. You can click on the map, enter your postal code, or just check the summary, which refreshes every 30 seconds.
Add up the Liberal and NDP votes in many ridings and they would overwhelm the Conservatives. Sigh.
Finally, people in Canada can call a number, give their phone number, and tell telemarketers not to call them.
Here’s what you need to say::
You can listen to the rest, which is mostly a long legal disclaimer, or hang up.
The telemarketers have been lobbying against it and have managed to get some exceptions:
Those you must tell individually, yourself, to take you off their calling lists. To register a number, you must call from it. What that means, of course, is that you can’t register Ident-a-call numbers with special rings by telephone. But you can use the web site: National Do Not Call Registry (Canadian).
It takes 31 days to get the message to telemarketers but is good until November, 2011.
Canada’s Ironman triathlon is running in Penticton, B.C. today. I’m watching the streaming video & audio (announcements and their choice of music on the speakers at the start/finish lines! Check it out at Ironman.com. Just keep following the links to live video. The results/transcription window pops up automatically.
The competitors are divided into professionals (pros) and amateurs (age-groupers). The pros compete for the overall win. The age-groupers have separate prizes for each age group (about a decade).
Ironman criteria:
The youngest competitor a woman of 18 and the oldest a 78-year-old nun. The oldest man is 77. I saw one man with a full grey beard, no one with large breasts.
I won’t be able to keep it on all day as I’m driving to Peterborough and back.
Or so says Christopher Hume, writing in the Toronto Star: “Toronto’s accidental treasure“
I love the Spit: it’s a bird sanctuary, wilder than most city parks, looks a bit like Scotland with its hills and fjords, I mean lochs. It’s a good place for a walk or a bike ride. Who cares that the park exists only on weekends or that it’s built out of landfill?
Here’s a link to some British Columbia webcams: BC highway cams.