Welkin Zodiak

07/25/2023

Compact and lightweight - an outstanding walk-around lens - Canon's EF 50mm f/1.8 STM is a great entry into the world of EOS prime lenses. With an 80mm effective focal-length on APS-C cameras, 50mm...

07/18/2023

Barely used EOS 6D Camera Body. With EOS 6D CD Camera Instruction Manual and battery plus charger. Extra battery available $10. I have various lenses available for sale under separate ads, but will...

07/18/2023

Copyright 1988/2006 The Manitou Cliffs, Dontom Inc. US Highway 24 P.O. Box 272, Manitou Springs CO 80829 Full color poster of the tribes of the United States by area. By J Stroble

10/09/2022

06/05/2021

The Residential School Problem is a now and tomorrow problem

A thread ⬇️

Canada has been absorbing this week the revelation of the burials of 215 children at the Kamloops Residential Schools, many of them completely undocumented in our past, and mostly completely unknow…

06/25/2020

Reblog of an article in MacLean's Magazine from January 22, 2015 For a country so self-satisfied with its image of progressive tolerance, how is this not a national crisis? By Scott Gilmore January 22, 2015 The racial mess in the United States looks pretty grim and is painful to watch. We can be forgiven for being quietly thankful for Canada’s more inclusive society, which has avoided dramas like that in Ferguson, Mo. [ 661 more words ]

we have a far worse race problem than the United States

06/07/2020

I believe that we should all pay attention to the people who make up our world. They are not invisible. Their pain should be all of our pain. Discrimination against one is discrimination against all. [ 292 more words ]

We must all commit to seeing each other before we can truly say that Black Lives Matter

05/21/2020

One of the things that irritates me about life in the 21st century is the constant evolution of laws and regulations designed to improve public safety, and protect people from unsafe practices. In 2018 the British Columbia government changed traffic laws related to how drivers are supposed to react when seeing flashing lights at the side of the road or highway. [ 481 more words ]

One of the things that irritates me about life in the 21st century is the constant evolution of laws and regulations designed to improve public safety, and protect people from unsafe practices. In …

05/17/2020

By Natalie Obiko Pearson - May 16, 2020, 4:00 AM PDT The outbreak came early to British Columbia, in January, and public health officials braced for the worst. Now the Canadian province has one of the lowest death rates in North America. “I thought we were going to be dealing with something unprecedented in that region specifically, but then it didn’t happen,” said Jason Kindrachuk, a virologist at the University of Manitoba. [ 962 more words ]

Report from Bloomburg – Virus warrior in BC