farewell white city

my parents are packing up and getting ready to move from white city into regina. i suppose i shouldnt be surprised as i was sick of driving into the city even once a day when i still lived out there, but it will still be sad to see the house and yard go. it was a pretty fun place to grow up. i also started a sticker collection that i was very proud of that mom said had to go before they put the house up for sale. a collection like that could only have increased the value of the house, i say. at least she took a few commemorative pictures for me...



(they are apple stickers if you cant tell)

nice move stephen

so its been a while and all that stuff that everyone seems to write at the beginning of all their blogs these days.
anyway, i was reading in the globe and mail, and then in one of the worlds most prominent science journals 'Nature' about how mr. harper has decided to cut the position of national science advisor. apparently science and research is not important in canada.
as well, stephen, along with all his cabinet ministers somehow missed the ceremony for the Canadian scientists that recieved a share in the Nobel Prize for their work on carbon dioxide capture.
winning the nobel prize is no small feat, and for these canadians to win it in the area that has become one of the largest environmental concerns in our time, is outstanding. however mr. harper, being bent on using as many fossil fuels and generating as much CO2 as possible thought best not to attend. he was probably out flying in his private jet
check out the links if you are interested here is the
Globe and Mail Article and the Nature Journal Editorial

1994

i remember hearing very little about what took place in 1994 in Rwanda. back then i would have been 13 years old and probably could have cared less anyway. last year, i worked with a lady for a short time in yellowknife that was from there and heard a few stories of her time as she lived there during the terrible things that happened in 94. now, i just finished reading a book about it that gives quite an insight into what went on.
Paul Rusesabagina tells his story of what he saw and how he saved some lives. here is a quick paragraph from the book that i found pretty insane. to put it in a bit of context, he is talking about how the UN, US, Canada and other countries were useless in helping avoid, or stop the massacre.

       "Even a proposal to jam the frequencies of RTLM {the rebel radio station} was rejected, on  the grounds that the Army National Guard airplane required for the overflights cost  eighty- five hundred dollars an hour to fly. If that plane had been kept aloft for every second of the genocide it would have worked out to about twenty-four dollars for each life taken that might otherwise have been saved"
if you are looking for something to read...this one is well written and extremely eye-opening.