Canuck

  Wednesday, 14 January 2004

CBC Toronto - COC unveils next season < 7:05:48 PM>.

The company is riding high from November's announcement of a modest budget surplus, and after achieving several critical and commercial successes, including 2003's production of Madama Butterfly. Also, the opera company has generated buzz in general about its new home, the Four Seasons Centre, which is scheduled to open in 2006.

TheStar.com - Snow blast follows frigid temperatures < 7:02:09 PM>.

Snow blast follows frigid temperatures

Freaky Windy < 5:20:20 PM>.

There's some freaky shit going on regarding wind, hydrogen, and Prince Edward Island energy policy. So freaky that it's hard to believe. For example, here's Hon. Jamie Ballem, Minister of Environment and Energy, quoted in a CBC story:

"It's such a renewable, and it's so clean," says Ballem. It's our oil. It's our opportunity because it's one thing we do have here. We have good wind conditions. Maybe we should be maximizing it. If we can get Maritime cooperation then it makes it a lot easier for us to look at. Instead of 15 per cent of our energy coming from wind, can we make it 50 per cent, can we make it 100 per cent?"

I had to read that paragraph three times before I believed it. Some days, it's just good to be alive. [Reinvented News]

< 5:00:37 PM>.

Eastern Canada in the freezer again
A second bout of severe cold in less than a week settled over a region extending from Manitoba to Nova Scotia on Wednesday, triggering pleas to conserve power, launching emergency plans for people without homes and closing many schools. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

It was -20 when I woke up this morning. Too cold to snow, I thought. I was wrong. We're in the middle of a good ol' snow storm!