It’s been three full days of competition at Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games… and there have been three major Engineering failures by the Canadian organizers. You would think Canada would at least employ some engineers who were up to snuff for the Olympics – alas, it was not to be.
[Political opinion below. Reader beware?]
$300 million later, Stephen Harper and the Conservatives have little to show for it but a meagre 1% increase in popularity and a dozen more seats in Parliament. While he claims to have gained a mandate to govern with his new ’strong minority’, little has changed in Ottawa. The Liberals will [...]
I noticed something particularly odd, and sort of irking as I browsed through the local public library the other day. As I looked through the shelves of books, certain books had these big red maple leaf stickers along the spine, to indicate a Canadian author or a book about Canada.
Normally, I have no problem with [...]