Whatever else may be said about The Hon. Danny Williams, it appears he’s far from alone in his protest against the Government of Canada. It was recently reported that the municipal governments in St. John’s, Mount Pearl and Corner Brook had also removed the flag. And, today I read about a local company in Newfoundland […]
Category Archives: Commentary Unbound
The Business of Radio
19 December 2004 – 4:30 pm
Radio and things like it have become popular topics of late. There’s podcasting, studies indicating declines in traditional radio listenership, and here in Canada the CRTC’s subscription radio hearings. I personally find all of this very interesting. I’ve always liked radio, but these days I very rarely tune into broadcast radio. I think that’s because […]
More Elevator Adaption Notes
11 September 2004 – 4:05 pm
In my earlier post about elevator adapation I link the Inglis Elevators, but I didn’t link to the Plum Coulee Elevator project. This is a definite oversight: the Plum Coulee project is more interesting because they’re actually planning to adapt the structure to new functions (as opposed to preserving it). Their website doesn’t have a […]
Humour In The News
I was reading an article about some American meat packers advocating a more open border between Canada and the US. The story isn’t earth shattering, I think it is well known the beef import ban was hurting many US packers. I’m posting about it here because of this one quote that made me smile. Mark […]