The Galloping Beaver

A tail dragging romp through the swamps of the world

Monday, June 15, 2009

How many ways can you say "Rust-Out"?

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Perhaps the concept of the Joint Support Ship was one task too many . It was, in one sense at least, something of a desperation move to sati...

Premiers promote North American energy super-corridor

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Forget the Persian Gulf: Fort McMurray to Port Arthur, Texas is new powerhouse : Western premiers and U. S. governors on Sunday hailed thei...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Snowbirds are lashed

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It looks like the Canadian Air Force aerobatic team might get a little more time to reduce their handicaps. T he Snowbirds, Canada's ic...

Alaska's Rat Island is Rat Free

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From Reuters : Alaska's Rat Island is finally rat-free, 229 years after a Japanese shipwreck spilled rampaging rodents onto the remote A...

At the going down of the Sun, and in the morning...

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With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Corporal Martin Dubé, 5 e Régiment de genie de combat. Killed due to enemy activi...

There is a fungus among us . . .

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Oregon State scientist Mary Verhoeven is among those working to develop wheat varieties resistant to a strain of “stem rust” that a colleagu...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

Uh Oh . . . .

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Why do I have the sneaking suspicion this does not bode well for Canadian interests? Per the CBC this morning : Canada, U.S. unveil plans to...

Osama bin there done that

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CIA: Finding bin Laden top U.S. priority (UPI) -- Finding al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, believed still in hiding in Pakistan, remains a t...
Thursday, June 11, 2009

Stay right where you are Lord Tubby

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The US Supreme Court thinks you have a pretty good life in a Florida federal jail. Black had asked to be released on bail pending his appeal...

Multipurpose Applied Physics Lattice Experiment may in fact, WORK.

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OK, so from the title, M ultipurpose A pplied P hysics L attice E xperiment, in short MAPLE. Research nuclear reactors which, at this time ...

People who help people are the luckiest people

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How did I not know about this? This is the very idea that won the Nobel Peace Prize a couple of years ago and now its gone viral on the int...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

It's too hard

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Back to witchcraft , which to a Harper Conservative is so much easier. P rime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada will abandon its role as t...

Yes, Chantal, but for one curious action

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Chantal Hebert makes an interesting point in describing the words of Harper natural resources minister as typical of " back-channel co...

30 years before the masthead

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This is from a few weeks back, but listen to Stuart McLean talks about why newspapers are important . I couldn't agree more. I've ...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Saving the best for last?

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One has to wonder how many other collegues Lisa Raitt dissed while babbling away to perhaps the most incompetent communications director i...

The nastiest politician in this Canadian century can dish it out...

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But he clearly can't take it. This , from, of all people , Harper. Prime Minister Stephen Harper stood unapologetic Tuesday, defended hi...

And the "sex" just keeps on comin'

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The operators of the High Flux Reactor at Petten in the Netherlands are attempting to make up for the loss of production of medical isotopes...

At the going down of the Sun, and in the morning...

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With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Private Alexandre Péloquin, 3 e Bataillon, Royal 22e Régiment, serving with 2 e ...
Monday, June 08, 2009

Sexy?!

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Ya think ? Well, let's give the conservative schoolboys a chance to wipe themselves. (emphasis mine) In the recording, MacDonnell said t...
Sunday, June 07, 2009

Palm, meet forehead

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In a week when one of the main stories in the news was about a man walking into a church in Kansas, pulling out a handgun and shooting anoth...
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