Stephen Harper Prorogues!

harper-to-shut-down-parliament at The Globe and Mail.

the-short-parliament at Macleans.

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us three on the road – Donna, Anthony and Tycho in Vietnam

Modernism and the Cinematic City – a film course in Edinburgh. Manhatta, a 1921 version of Koyaanisqatsi

Morning Drawing – drawings

Quekadoodledoo! – adventures of a duck in Singapore

The Last Muggle to Read Harry Potter – don’t spoil it for her!

The Real Good Stuff – some well chosen music videos

Update, December 22, 2009 - The Diary of Aggie E. showed up in my tag reader this morning, so, it was easiest to add her to this recent post. Yep, it’s about her trip in Nepal.

Howlaleua!

Parliament begins

From Scott Feschuk’s caption contest, Barbara Ann Scott  bears the Olympic torch into the House of Commons. My entry, corrected:

Update dec 15: Alas,I am not in the finals.

A hawk in the treetop

At Wolfe and Wellington 1:39 pm Sunday December 13th 2009

Strike while the weather is hot.

I bet those bus drivers are glad they’re not driving in this weather.

Split ‘em while you still got ‘em

Peter Mackay defends his head

Once again, our glorious government from Macleans: http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/12/08/the-commons-support-for-the-troops-if-necessary-but-necessarily-support-for-the-troops

John Baird channels James Cagney

John Baird refutes torture allegations

Recycle, but not that.

Some time ago, probably just back about a year, I used to get free range eggs at Quartermaster. You could bring back the previous used paper egg carton and refill it. The local health inspector decided that hand refilling and reusing paper containers was unsanitary and so put a stop to that. Only freshly manufactured paper egg cartons were allowed.
Curiously at this point free range eggs began showing up in the chain grocery stores – in plastic cartons. What’s funny is seeing someone pick up eggs in one of these plastic trays, opening it to hand inspect each egg then putting it in their cart.
These cartons were stamped with a 1 recyclable triangle. Okay. Not so bad.
Now all these clamshell 1 recycled containers are being refused from blue box recycling.
I’m told I need to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle, but then some rule prevents me and then some manufacturing process defeats me.
I can’t count how many Tim Horton’s trays we’ve managed to offer back to the recycle bin. I guess it’s back to paper egg cartons if they’re still out there

2 palettes

My sister brought by a box of our father’s old paints; gouache, watercolors, the odd tube of oil. He would have used these in his day to day work rendering sketches of signs and buildings. He used to work for a neon and plastic sign company when these would have been used. He probably found a few scraps from the sheet plastic used for the signs and rigged a small mould for the vacuum mould machine to make these in the sign shop.

With a thought to using the palettes again, I decided to rinse out the gouache. I was quickly caught by the idea that I should photograph them before a last record of his touch was gone.

Trees kick butt!

Trees win in urban growth battle

Claudia

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Worlds Worst Muslim Daughter

Journey to Kathmandu and excerpts from his film at Vimeo

Stephen’s song

Stephen Harper’s defense against torture allegations

 

Harper's defense against allegations of knowledge of torture