Big Dig today Sky photo today MV Viking Octantis is in port today Not as big a crowd as there was the first time the ship came into port. I guess it is old news now. ‘Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.’. Standing up the fence after … Read more
New Study Adds To Growing Body Of Evidence Suggesting Mask Mandates Are Ineffective A new study published this month revealed that COVID-19 mask mandates in schools have little to no effect. “Our findings contribute to a growing body of literature which suggests school-based mask mandates have limited to no impact on the case rates of COVID-19 among K-12 … Read more
Ottawa admits some travellers were incorrectly told to quarantine due to ArriveCAN app glitch Ottawa says that due to a glitch with the ArriveCAN entry app, some travellers who recently entered Canada were sent erroneous notifications instructing them to quarantine. The admission comes at a time when the federal government is facing mounting pressure from politicians and tourism groups to … Read more
Big Dig today Three quarters of the way through July and it looks like the gay crosswalk might be finished. Underwhelming best describes it. First, why the gaps between colours? Just looks bad. Smokers are the biggest litterers in the city. Its not even close. The advantage smokers have over all other litterers is that … Read more
Big Dig today Lots of stuff. Morning sky photo I found one of these still blooming. Instead of throwing this into a trash can, several which are near by, it was decided that simply setting it down in the parking lot is good enough. When was it that this behaviour became OK? At what point … Read more
That is one thing about this city, whatever you need, is always available…somewhere. Stroller? Here’s one. Bicycle? Here’s one. And they are free. Big Dig Today Orange and yellow always look great against a blue sky. Morning sky photo Why stand on one leg? Minimized heat loss seems to be the popular reason. I imagine, … Read more
International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. When you are talking developing countries’ debt, you are talking the IMF and the World Bank. If a country fails to meet its financial obligations, are their resources raided? What you have is a situation where the richest countries of the world and the richest people of the … Read more
Morning sky photo Not sure what is going on with that cloud system but it looks ominous. Quite beautiful actually. Sadly many beautiful things are extremely dangerous and that includes women. That is if there was such a thing as a woman, which we all know that there isn’t. Big day yesterday down on … Read more
Big Dig this morning. Not much change over the weekend. Trash in context Morning sky photo Starting to see more bees now so I can work on my bee photography Ahhhh yes. I am in Thunder Bay now. Why is this here? Well I can think of two scenarios. The first one is that boaters … Read more
Gender Activists Urge Anthropologists To Stop Labeling Human Remains ‘Male’ Or ‘Female’ There is an interesting controversy brewing in anthropology departments where professors have called for researchers to stop identifying ancient human remains by biological gender because they cannot gauge how a person identified at that the time. Other scholars are calling for researchers to … Read more