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Don’s Rant:
As the Conservative party announces it latest budget, this weeks rant is about how the budget is not really a budget…where you would expect details on where and how the government is spending our tax dollars and not justification for what the government plans to do.
Find out more:
- Economic Action Plan 2014 – The Budget?
- CCPA – 2014 Federal Budget Analysis
- Economic Action Plan 2014 – The Budget In Brief
- CCPA – Alternative Federal Budget 2014
- Budget Highlights 1973
- Budget In Brief 1974
America’s first First Nations
A long running debate has been over who were the real first people of the Americas. The strongest argument holds to a migration from Asia via a ‘thawed valley’ at the end of the last ice age. However, the Clovis Culture…defined by their distinct arrow heads, points to a french origin.
Recent sequencing of DNA from a child who died around 12,400 yrs ago and thought to be a member of the Clovis people, shows a shared ancestry with the vast majority of Native Americans, thus supporting the Asian migration theory. However, DNA artifacts complicate a simple answer by showing some, as yet unknown, genetic mixing with Europeans.
Find out more:
- Ancient migration: Coming to America
- Clovis people not 1st to arrive in North America
- ‘Footprints’ debate to run and run
- Clovis culture
- Kennewick Man
- The North Atlantic ice-edge corridor: a possible Palaeolithic route to the New World
- DNA Evidence: Clovis People Ancestors to All Native Americans
- Solutrean hypothesis
- New Evidence Puts Man In North America 50,000 Years Ago
- Ancient skeleton shows first Americans came from Asia
- Early human migrations
- Timeline of glaciation
A Head of the Curve
Neurotoxisity fear-mongering
In a paper published in The Lancet, “Neuro-behavioural effects of developmental toxicity”, we take a quick look at what the article reports, what’s wrong with the study and put out the warning that this will likely be water-cooler talk soon – better knowledge-up.
Find out more:
- Neurobehavioural effects of developmental toxicity
- Doctors fear kids’ brain disorders tied to industrial chemicals
- Chemicals may be eroding child IQs: disputed study
- Disputed study links fluoride, other chemicals to erosion of child IQs
The birth of Canadian Citizenship
In the wake of the debate of the soon to be release reform of the Canadian Citizenship act, we take nostalgic look back and how and when a Canadian actually became a Canadian Citizen…you would be surprised.
Find out more:
- Canadian citizenship rules face broad reform in 2014
- Forging Our Legacy: Canadian Citizenship and Immigration, 1900–1977
- 1947: The first officially Canadian citizens
- Canadian Citizenship Act 1946
- Statute of Westminster 1931
- Immigration Acts (1866 – 2001)
- History of Canadian nationality law
- The act that made us Canadian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDCrGjH9JTs
Classic RFT
Lance Armstrong and professional doping
Ethan give a summary of the “Lance Armstrong Scandal” and the state of doping in sports. Then we have a spirited debate about the ethics of doping and the implications it has to both amateur sport and to “sport-u-tainment”
Find out more:
- Lance Armstrong’s confession leaves those he attacked with mixed feelings
- Lance Armstrong – History of allegations of doping
- Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession
- Lance Armstrong’s unmoving confession
- Drug cheating at the Olympics
- Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat
a classic final treat!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ZvAVcBIrQ
and of course, how to get free beer….
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