Anywhere in North America a person of colour who gets behind the wheel of a car runs the risk of committing an offense euphemistically called ‘Driving While Black’. In Halifax a Black man has taken a bar to court because he was refused entrance and service, a practice that has gone on since former slaves were brought to Halifax over 200 years ago in the wake of the American War of Independence. In Florida an unarmed black teenager out walking at night in his own gated community was chased by an armed white vigilante who was told not to do so by his own people and shot dead in the back. It took 44 days for that individual to be charged with a crime and 16 hours for a jury to acquit him. Clearly it is not safe to be a person of colour in America.
Once more the Hollywood glamour machine has claimed the life of yet another young actor as it has been announced that Cory Monteith of Glee fame was found dead in a Vancouver Hotel room. You may remember that it was five years after the fact before the young actor who played Wheels in Degrassi High was even properly identified after being found dead in Hamilton, Ontario. Makes one wonder just how much longer the self-destructive young Justin Bieber will survive his own brush with fame.
Apple found guilty of price-fixing e-Books. As traditional bookstores struggle to keep the doors open Canadians pay a ridiculous surcharge vis-รก-vis American prices for the same book even when it is published in Canada despite the fact that the Canadian Dollar hovers within pennies of the American Dollar most of the time. e-Book prices are a capricious market in which titles can be deeply discounted or even offered for free one day and be sold for anything from $9.99 to $15.99 the next. Online prices can vary wildly depending on which marketer you poll, which country they and you are in, your area code, and even the fact that you looked at a book online or placed it on a future wish list can get you an e-Mailed discount offer. I find it particularly perplexing that it is possible for an e-Book to be more expensive than a remaindered Hardcover or even a Trade or mass-market paperback edition of the same text.
The closure of Imperoil in Dartmouth leaves Irving Oil with a monopoly on the production of fuel oil in the Maritimes.
Sable Island has finally been granted limited protected status as a National Park placing Green Party Leader Elizabeth May in the uncomfortable position of voting against the enabling legislation because it provided insufficient protections from oil and gas exploration among others.
The fibre in smoked cigarette filters used to line bird’s nests serves to protect the young birds in them from parasitic mites that tend to inhabit those nests. In particular this aids the mother bird who spends a great deal of time sitting multiple clutches of eggs in the same nest. Using the great outdoors as an ash tray is still a disgusting habit.
Once more the Hollywood glamour machine has claimed the life of yet another young actor as it has been announced that Cory Monteith of Glee fame was found dead in a Vancouver Hotel room. You may remember that it was five years after the fact before the young actor who played Wheels in Degrassi High was even properly identified after being found dead in Hamilton, Ontario. Makes one wonder just how much longer the self-destructive young Justin Bieber will survive his own brush with fame.
Apple found guilty of price-fixing e-Books. As traditional bookstores struggle to keep the doors open Canadians pay a ridiculous surcharge vis-รก-vis American prices for the same book even when it is published in Canada despite the fact that the Canadian Dollar hovers within pennies of the American Dollar most of the time. e-Book prices are a capricious market in which titles can be deeply discounted or even offered for free one day and be sold for anything from $9.99 to $15.99 the next. Online prices can vary wildly depending on which marketer you poll, which country they and you are in, your area code, and even the fact that you looked at a book online or placed it on a future wish list can get you an e-Mailed discount offer. I find it particularly perplexing that it is possible for an e-Book to be more expensive than a remaindered Hardcover or even a Trade or mass-market paperback edition of the same text.
The closure of Imperoil in Dartmouth leaves Irving Oil with a monopoly on the production of fuel oil in the Maritimes.
Sable Island has finally been granted limited protected status as a National Park placing Green Party Leader Elizabeth May in the uncomfortable position of voting against the enabling legislation because it provided insufficient protections from oil and gas exploration among others.
The fibre in smoked cigarette filters used to line bird’s nests serves to protect the young birds in them from parasitic mites that tend to inhabit those nests. In particular this aids the mother bird who spends a great deal of time sitting multiple clutches of eggs in the same nest. Using the great outdoors as an ash tray is still a disgusting habit.
No comments:
Post a Comment