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Wednesday, September 24, 2008


 

Elect-ra Terrestrials

 

It was a bit of a curiosity that the Canadian leaders debates were for scheduled the same night as the Vice Presidential debate in the States and folks are taking bets on which ones Canadians will be watching. On one hand, you have Sarah Palin while we will now get Elizabeth May. Six of one, half a dozen of the other, you say.

But if that's not enough competition for attention, how's this:



Anomaly Television has reported that October 14th is not just our planned Election Day in Canada, but worldwide, it's also the coming out party for our interstellar neighbours, the Pleiadians. Yes, it's First Contact Day. [HT: The Debris Field]

There are several videos on the Anomaly TV website so check out the link. No word yet on who they might be coming to endorse, and I'll hold my tongue as to any speculation.

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Friday, January 11, 2008


 

Stellar Collections

 

Canada's UFOs: The Search for the Unknown

The national archives has assembled a collection of the records of UFO investigations by the RCMP, DND, DOT and the National Research Council.

These documents were accumulated between 1947 and the early 1980s and represent all records filed with the federal government on UFOs. There are approximately 9,500 digitized documents in a variety of formats, including correspondence, reports, memos and procedures. Some are specifically concerned with particular UFO sightings, while others are more generic in nature; these may consist of reporting forms and procedures for recording events.
With a number of governments realizing disclosure recently, it's great to see Canada improving access to these records.

(Crossposted from Mysteries.ca)

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Friday, October 26, 2007


 

Scientific Observation

 

It's interesting that a nobel-winning, DNA pioneer can be forced out of his post for suggesting there are differences within the human species caused as a result of geographic displacement... but suggest that the human race will evolve into two separate species, "an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures" and you're just considered quirky. (Link via the Debris Field.)

You think Dr. Curry will get hate mail from the goblin lobby?

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Friday, October 19, 2007


 

The Polite and the Political

 

Readers Digest has studied 15 Canadian cities and come up with politeness rankings for the nation. Their finding: Moncton, New Brunswick is the most polite city in Canada. Perhaps it's on account of being from a 'have-not' province and being able to say, "Please Sir, may I have some more..." in both official languages.

Interestingly, the rudest city is also notably bilingual. Ottawa scored that lamentable distinction, the inhabitants of Parliament Hill proving to be an insurmountable handicap in the competition.

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Thursday, October 11, 2007


 

Faster, Higher, Pricier

 

Looks like everybody is getting their cut for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. Some ticket prices were released Thursday and prices will range up to as high as $1100 for some of the choice events. However, organizers are trying to strike a balance by making tens of thousands of tickets available for free or at low cost in some case.

John Furlong, CEO of the Vancouver Olympic Committee stated that 50,000 tickets would be available for free and half the tickets would be under $100, with 100,000 being under $25.

But that's not the only Olympic news of the day. Womensenews is reporting that Vancouver sex workers will be seeking to operate a brothel at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, "the scene of Canada's worst suspected serial murder case." (For those not familiar, that 'hits-you-like-a-tonne-of-bricks' qualifier is a reference to the Pickton trial which involves the savage murders of prostitutes from the Vancouver area.) Interviewed in the story is Susan Davis, a 39-year-old sex worker from Vancouver's notorious Eastside.

"Prostitution itself is legal in Canada. However, since most activities associated with it are not--such as soliciting sexual services in a public place, operating a bawdy house and living off the avails of prostitution--the group is planning to appeal to the federal government for an exemption... "Vancouver truly is the testing ground for new ideas," Davis said, citing the site as well as other initiatives, such as free needle exchange programs and the testing of prescription heroin on addicts."
Internationally, it wouldn't be a precedent for such a large sporting event. Last year's World Cup in Germany featured the Artemis brothel, a 4-storey complex that even included a pool and movie theatre.

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Friday, October 5, 2007


 

Merry Catmas!

 

Get out the tuna fish candy canes and catnip-laced eggnog; it's Catmas. I came upon this special date while perusing the Adventures of Accordian Guy in the 21st Century.

It seems that they've declared the first Friday in October to be a sort of national blog-your-cat day so here it goes: the feline to the left is ours, as some of you may know. His name's Napster and he'll be two years old in January.

We're saving this photo in case he ever declares his political candidacy in an election.

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Saturday, September 15, 2007


 

Alien life speculated on at Edmonton conference

 

The Telus World of Science convention has attracted a number of experts in the field of ufology to discuss the possibilities of extra-terrestrial life and its development. ""There's an enormous amount of evidence with which most people, especially the noisy negativists, as I call them, aren't familiar," says nuclear physicist and U.F.O. expert Stanton Friedman, who is one of the scientists attending.
The Canadian Press: Edmonton conference takes a scientific look at whether we're alone in the universe

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007


 

Better to give than receive...

 

From the CBC: Toronto worker finds grenade in pillowcase.
Used clothing retailer evacuated after Toronto factory worker finds a World War II-era pineapple grenade in the donation bin. What's next? Surface to Air Missiles for the Salvation Army? Charity arms race feared.

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My first blog initially began as the Kyungnam Journal in April of 2001, six months after I first landed in South Korea to teach English. Upon moving to Seoul in January of 2002, it became the Kyungnam to Kyunggi Journal (K2K) and upon returning to Canada and the establishment of Latenight.ca, it's been archived here for posterity. 

I hope you enjoy the photos and anecdotes of my time working in hagwons as an EFL instructor in the South Korean cities of Changwon and Seoul.  I especially hope that prospective English teachers heading overseas can benefit from this journal.

A few updates may still materialize however, as Korea retains its connection to me through memory, habit and, now, matrimony.

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My first Latenight blog was begun in March of 2004, when I repatriated to my hometown of Miramichi, NB.

Some of the posts are a bit sparse of concrete personal information, compared to my other blogs.  At the time, I'd begun a small publishing company and most of my life was consumed by that, while the competitive nature of my business situation demanded I keep my work-related posts a bit vague.

Nonetheless, even after moving away (again), it is still my hometown and I hope to continue to contribute posts from time to time.  Miramichi is a town in transition and deserves a blog of its own, so while I am not presently residing in the city, perhaps I can still cast my gaze back home periodically.

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Halifax was my home for a time when I was a child.  It's the city of my alma mater, Dalhousie. It's also where I've spent the bulk of my working life in the publishing industry.

I returned to Halifax, the City of Trees, in September of 2005.  By then a seasoned blogger, I set up the Latenight Halifax section of this site then and retrofitted the other blogs to match.

This blog covers my life in Halifax through writeups and photos, and also the steps leading up to myr marriage in June of 2007. 

We eventually decided not to settle here though, despite the years I've enjoyed in Halifax, and as of June 2008, we followed the ol' Maritime tradition and left to hang our hats in Toronto.

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