More later but note this ruling out of the Supreme Court of Canada today and study it...all of you! From the headnote:  •  “A practice undertaken for survival purposes can be considered integral to an aboriginal community’s distinctive culture. The nature of the practice which founds an aboriginal …

Brother Iain points out a truth related to the Dion doltosity and the rush to shout "Jack Hughes!" that also points out many things about the GOTCHA! world of both politics and internet discourse: Turner was a Brit.  •  “Not the words one would expect to hear from a former company director on the …

Yesterday I opened up this one with a consideration that Yule represents something pan-Western that might be leveraged as a non-legal foundation element. I think it is important to consider the non-legal elements, perhaps if only first, as the real issue is the need to establish cultural …

I am working my way through a rather huge but very interesting book on the history of the chemistry and archaeobiology of beer and brewing published by the Royal Society of Chemists so my mind, more than the usual, is focused on folk who lived with wood and stone and skins. Which Makes for an easy …

...ghost eraser, ghost eraser..GO!!!  •  Again with the boats. Given that I am in mourning for the Sox, this is all I can do at least until the coffee kicks in.

From the excellent BBC archive on the Somme  •  There is a lot of talk about failing to remembering the lessons of the past but it, as usual, is a call for selective memory and a selection at one person or party's call for their cause rather than your interests. Timely to note, then, that there is …

Loverly shipyard photos at the BBC.

Team GX40  •  ...but now I am so I am a big loser. We zipped across and I didn't even take a picture for you:  •  TnT ties! Reminds me of how I felt on 16 June 1990.  •  Got made fun of by a US border guard again and got the chilly and very professional treatment from the Canadians on the way back …

This is in a Globular story summarizing bits of the briefing notes received by Stockwell Day from the RCMP. It was obtained through access to information:  •  “Use of disruptive tactics in anti-terrorism cases represents a sea change in the way the RCMP deals with security threats, senior Mounties …