Posts Tagged: Group Projects
Group Project: Administrative Skills Or Ideology
Posted by on Monday, June 30, 2008 in - 16 comments
A simple question for this Canada Day four day weekend...well, for me at least. Some of you are in the cube farm enjoying your Coffee Mate enhanced alertness beverage while others are in the bush with a 26er of rye, screaming kids, rain soaked cheerios and smelly clothes. Things should run better …
Group Project: McCain's Visit To Ottawa
Posted by on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 in - 7 comments
I don't usually get caught up in the bashing of various news sources. The Toronto Star gets its share of grief from folks with a variety of levels with incoherent thought - leaving the brighter stuttering when they see the error of their ways. But this column/article/piece, for me, is worth a bit …
Group Project: Selling Your Photo Is Good Or Bad
Posted by on Thursday, May 22, 2008 in - 7 comments
I know I don't care but if there is any one else even considering this for a moment, do you? • “One British politician said the pair's behaviour – including selling pictures of the Queen – "diminishes the institution and compromises Her Majesty." Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb told the Toronto …
Group Project: "The Tea Position Would Be Very Serious..."
Posted by on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 in - leave a comment
Oh, for the 1950s and their simple concerns - nuclear fear, lack of access to tea: • “Even in the nation's darkest hours, nothing has traditionally given so much comfort and succour to the British soul as a nice cup of tea. So much is the beverage bound up with the national character that …
Group Project: Do We Love Biofuels Or Hate Them?
Posted by on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 in - 8 comments
Finally. A new crop farmers can grow - even in the third world - that the industrialized nations a desperate to get their hands on. But all is not well with biofuels. We should have heeded the warning of The House Martins from twenty years ago: • “Me and the farmer get on fine, • Through …
Group Project: Public Funding and Corporate Welfare
Posted by on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 in - 7 comments
I wonder. I am as sympathetic to the farmer as the next guy who has worked a plot as big as I have. A farming friend - a brother, in fact - once let me know how you can spot a 40 cent a post cost hog farm from a 80 cent a pound one. One survives these times while others do not. • But not if the …
Group Project: What Can We Blame For The Recession?
Posted by on Sunday, March 23, 2008 in - 5 comments
As the recession talk heats up and the economy slows, what can we expect from the conspiracy theorists and fear mongers? I mean, what better time to get out our finger-pointing and scapegoating skills than when jobs are disappearing and bank accounts and emptying. And I don't mean shadowy figures …
Group Project: Will Canada Recognize Kosovo?
Posted by on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 in - 12 comments
Even if Stephen Harper or Parliament makes some statement, isn't the delay taken already a bit telling? We are on the side of Russia and China - and, to be fair, Spain and Cyprus. Places where the desire to be free and separate are problematic. Just to recollect, Canada had a hand in setting the …
Group Project: Did That Cat Have To Die?
Posted by on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 in - 34 comments
I have a cat but I think having a cat is a weirdness. I am so ambivalent about the whole cats thing I am not sure what I think about this case: • “Mr. Stevenson, 54, does not deny using a .22-caliber rifle fitted with a scope to kill the cat, which lived under the San Luis Pass toll bridge …
Group Project: Time To Kill The Senate?
Posted by on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 in - 8 comments
We've talked about it before but it appears that our rural overlords are now considering abolishing the Senate or at least making that the only option to reforming it. How would you vote if Mr. Segal, my Senator if such matters were more particularly regional, has his way? • “If a majority of …
