14 entries filed this month:
We need the Conversation on Health because British Columbians can and must find ways of making our health system sustainable for the future. We face many challenges as our population ages and new technologies and treatments are introduced. (302 words) More …
Some people have guessed what’s in the report and concluded that going into Iraq was a mistake. I strongly disagree. President G. W. Bush (739 words) More …
Sustainability requires living within the regenerative capacity of the biosphere. In an attempt to measure the extent to which humanity satisfies this requirement, we use existing data to translate human demand on the environment into the area re- quired for the production of food and other goods, together with the absorption of wastes. Our accounts indicate that human demand may well have exceeded the biosphere’s regenerative capacity since the 1980s. According to this preliminary and exploratory assessment, humanity’s load corresponded to 70% of the capacity of the global biosphere in 1961, and
grew to 120% in 1999. (240 words) More …
“You can see what I’m trying to impress upon everyone,” [B.C.‘s Finance Minister Carole] Taylor told the assembled scribes, referring to a chart that showed health costs rising from 41.6 per cent of last year’s budget, to 71.3 percent in 2017–18. “This is an issue that we all have to get our heads around.” (643 words) More …
This report is not to be dismissed; a NIE is put together for the National Security Council – the overarching security body which the President of the United States himself chairs. (334 words) More …
There’s much to read between the lines, but what I was immediately struck with is the repeated references to “democracy” and how much our societies value same. (123 words) More …
Even though numerous Canadian government officials, including senior ministers such as Stockwell Day – Minister of Public Safety, attended, no government attendees will comment on the meeting. (467 words) More …
…we must address, and soon, how we can avoid consistently giving a party with 40 per cent or less of the popular vote 100 per cent of the power. The present state of affairs means that the majority might just as well be voteless and means further that in normal times, the Liberal caucus in Ontario (and perhaps Quebec) is all a leader must satisfy. (201 words) More …
Acting B.C. Auditor General Arn van Iersel today released a report citing provincial government cost responsibility (which means you and me taxpayer) at $1.5 billion, a marked departure from the $600 million dollar figure that Finance Minister Colin Hansen has been brandishing about. (CBC News) (688 words) More …
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Putting qp through the wringer on an older server (1.26Ghz Intel, FreeBSD, 4GB RAM, fast disk) turns out results like this: (264 words) More …
Observations: I’ve run into no problems with 2.5 betas and release candidates, other than qpy needing a minor tweak for Python 2.5 due to a change in Python’s compiler code. (174 words) More …
Maybe Layton is on to something, as he isn’t the only one who believes that shoving more NATO firepower into Afghanistan is a waste of people’s lives, material, and money. The former aid-de-camp to the commander of the British task force in Afghanistan recently resigned from the army and comments: (697 words) More …
He wants me to put in print something like this: “I, without reservation, support the Canadian military mission in Afghanistan.” (236 words) More …