Archives for the month of: November, 2013

 
Google View Frozen Waterfall, Athabasca Falls, Jasper National Park, Canada

 
Frozen waterfall Rideau in Ottawa
 
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Frozen Waterfall Johnston Canyon Banff National Park
 
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Wide frozen waterfall called Weeping Wall in early season. Banff National Park, Canadian Rockies, Alberta, Canada
 
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Yoho National Park, B.C.
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‘Ugly Christmas sweaters’ are big business in Vancouver
Co-owner of trendy East Vancouver retailer says demand has “skyrocketed”

Chris Boyd and Jordan Birch founded the ‘Now That’s Ugly Society,’ a group dedicated to celebrating the holidays while wearing atrocious sweaters. They’ve been hosting ugly sweater parties for over a decade.

The pair has even petitioned the City of Vancouver to declare an “Ugly Sweater Day.” They’ve been selling buttons in support of their campaign, and donating the proceeds to charity.

 

 
A Brief History of the Ugly Christmas Sweater

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Where in Canada is the landscape eerily similar to Mars?
Check out strangely beautiful Canadian landscapes
 

Spotted Lake, British Columbia

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Hopewell Rocks, New Brunswick

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Maligne Canyon, Alta.

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Devon Island, Nunavut

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Sable Island, Nova Scotia

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Horseshoe Canyon, Alta.

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The Tablelands, Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland

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Mount Edziza Volcanic Complex, British Columbia

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Columbia Icefield, Alberta and B.C.

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Athabasca oil sands, Alta.

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Smeared skies, Lake Ontario, Canada

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Banff, Canada

 
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Banff National Park, Alberta

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Autumn in Canada

 
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Vancouver at Night

 
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Butchart Gardens Stairs in Vancouver

 
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Emerald Lake , British Columbia

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Lake Louise, Alberta

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Toronto

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Alberta National Park

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The actual Rob Ford story gets sadder and more depraved by the day. We much prefer the goofy fake version.

 

Ron Burgundy weighs in
Mayor Rob Ford joins the laughter as ‘friend Ron Burgundy’ mocks drug scandal
 

 
It’s here: Chris Farley in ‘Rob Ford: The Movie’
Even the late SNL star’s brother wishes he could play Toronto’s mayor, so a filmmaker created this amazing trailer. Watch it

Chris Farley stars in fake ‘Rob Ford: The Movie’ trailer

 

 
Who’s polling better? You may be surprised
Admitted crack-smoking Toronto mayor Rob Ford’s approval rating is shocking, especially when compared to Obama’s. Expert’s take.

Read article: Crack smoking mayor Rob Ford has higher approval rating than Obama

Ford :      42%
Obama:    41%

 
T-shirts mocking Rob Ford sold to help troubled youth

The t-shirts cost $50 each.

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T-shirts mocking Toronto mayor Rob Ford are being sold to help the iHuman Youth Society, an Edmonton agency that helps troubled teens.

The shirts bear messages like “Mayors Gone Wild” and “Toronto Zoo” with a picture of Ford underneath are the creation of artist Steven Csorba.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/t-shirts-mocking-rob-ford-sold-help-troubled-033847708.html

 
Rob Ford’s remaining supporters hold steady as more unseemly allegations surface

Rob Ford was subject of August police alert

The anti-littering perspective on the Ford scandal

Toronto’s scandal-hit mayor still has 42 percent approval

Mayor Rob Ford ‘won’t be supporting’ higher tax increase

Toronto voters will pass judgment on Ford, but he can’t have my job: Harper

Canadian PM to Toronto mayor: Don’t even think about it

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson urges Rob Ford to step away from limelight

Rob Ford loses staff member who made calls to radio show

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

The basic premise is this: everybody makes money except the consumer.
 

 
On CBC TV’s Doc Zone:
The Condo Game examines the forces at play behind the fastest moving condo market in North America — Toronto – and discovers that the glittering glass hides a sea of troubles. The first startling revelation for many people will be how very much the condo market is focused on investor profit, not affordable housing. One expert even says that it’s really not primarily a housing market but a commodities play. And that means that average Canadians, just looking for a place to call home, are joining a game for which they don’t have the rule book.

 
 
 
 

 
Wrecking Ball’ Ford

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Drinking And Driving

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Muuah!
Ford blows us a kiss.

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Ford vs. Hulk Hogan
Surprised that he won?

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Bongos.

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Flashdance

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Self-Fumble
Invisible defenders take down the mayor with an invisible tackle.

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Foiled By The Jedi

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Falling Off The Scale

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Rob Ford: Ballet Cameo In Nutcracker Earns Toronto Mayor Positive Reviews

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Running Man
That’s one way to deal with reporters.

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Maniacal Laugh

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Maniacal Laugh II
Muhahahahahahahahahahaha

laugh Ford Laugh

 
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Word Vomit

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Time For His Close-Up
Rob Ford proves you can run from the media, you can run into the media, and sometimes, you can do both at the same time

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Rob Ford is seen reading while driving

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Mayor Rob Ford displays a milk moustache as he takes part in voting with city council members in Toronto on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013.

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Mayor Rob Ford holds a bobblehead doll depicting him at Toronto City Hall.

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Rob Ford Meets Butter Rob Ford

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As part of an exhibition at the CNE, Toronto-based artist Olenka Kleban has made a butter sculpture of Toronto’s mayor.

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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford mimed someone imbibing behind the wheel then crashing during a special council meeting.
 

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unveiled at the Canada Europe Energy Summit

 

 
The ‘Felt Impacts of the Tar Sands’ artwork to be unveiled at the Canada-Europe Energy Summit in London.
Giant artwork depicting the Canadian tar sands and the devastation being caused to ecosystems, species and First Nations communities launched by street felt-artist Lucy Sparrow outside Canada House in Trafalgar Square on Tuesday 19th will unroll an ambitious artwork outside Canada House in Trafalgar Square at the annual Canada-Europe Energy Summit next Tuesday. Inside, Canadian minister Joe Oliver will meet with the UK government, the CEO of BP, Bob Dudley and other major players in the tar sands industry to discuss undermining EU climate legislation to open up global markets to Canada’s highly-polluting fossil fuels [3].

The giant felt work will block all three doors of Canada House as ministers and industry representatives from Shell, Enbridge and others arrive. It will depict in graphic detail the devastating impacts of Canadian tar sands extraction, which is undermining Indigenous treaty rights and destroying ecosystems communities rely on for traditional livelihoods.

Canadian Minister Joe Oliver last week vowed a renewed attack on the Fuel Quality Directive by launching a report which aimed to undermine efforts in the EU to reduce emissions from transport fuels [4] . With the southern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline already in place, tar sands may be entering the EU in as early as 2014.

http://www.no-tar-sands.org/2013/11/felt-impacts-unveiled/