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 Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 2:10 am Post subject: 2010 Year In Review |
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So once again, it's time to do the year in review. I've decided to add major local, national, and international stories that happened in 2010. Please feel free to add your own:
Local:
Voters in Brandon, Dauphin, and Portage elect new mayors, while Winnipeg sticks with the status quo
Brandon hosts the country in the Memorial Cup
Football stadium controversy
Rapid transit delay and controversy over active transportation
Evan Maud starlight cruise claim
Controversy over power lines down Lake Winnipeg
Passing of Duff Roblin and Sterling Lyon
National:
Canada hosts the world in Vancouver, winning one of the country's best ever medal counts for a winter olympics
Prorogation controversy
Changing the guard: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and BC see old Premiers step aside, the replacement for the latter to be determined
Omar Khadr sentenced
G20 fiasco in Toronto
International:
Turbulent year in Haiti, with earthquakes, flooding, and instability
Tension between the Koreas
BP disaster
Colombia elects a new President
Republicans take control of US House of Representatives
Heatwaves in Russia
Volcanic dust over Europe
Greek economic troubles
Wikileaks controversy
JibJab reviews 2010
The top 10 weather stories come out tomorrow.
I'm sure I've forgotten something, so I'll add to this list. So what were the major stories that happened in your area? Any national or international events that should be added?
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TS.
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Local:
The G20 catastrophe
The election of Rob Ford swings the Toronto political pendulum wildly to the right
National:
The Conservatives cancel the long-form census
The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline wins regulatory approval after six years of hearings
Canadian participation in the occupation of Afghanistan is extended for another three years without a significant public debate
Russel Williams is tried and convicted of murder and rape.
International:
All countries including the United States reach agreement on the context for a possible post-Kyoto climate change regime
The Israeli-Palestinian peace process collapses. Again.
Laurent Gbagbo attempts to hold on to power in Cote d'Ivoire after losing the election.
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DSquared
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 7:09 am Post subject: |
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I should add the election of David Cameron in the UK under the International column.
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Searosia
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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Nenshi 4 mayor is my only local...
Weather would be interesting as a top 10...11 year sunspot cycle at it's minimum, Strong La Nina episode, and the breakdown of the North atlantic occilation are probably the main driving factors.
Hurricane hitting canada but 0 american landfalls is unheard of. I beleive a record number of central american landfalls (not sure though)
Hurricane forming further south east so late in the year than ever before...
European snow and airport closures (European airports closing to readily will be a topic next season), includes winter storm Xynthia
Massive snowdumps for the eastern coast
Zombie satillites!(wait...is space weather still weather?)
Aussie floodings New England floods
Pakistani floodings/massive monsoons
14 countries record new 'extreme high' temperatures
Triple threats. 3 simoultaneosly existing hurricanes in the same ocean is unheard...pacific and atlantic both saw this happen.
There's my 10.
My funny but exceedingly painful award of 2010:
South Dakota legislated a direct attack against climate science using similiar arguements that were in favor of teaching creationism as an alternative in schools. Legislation includes this gem:
| Quote: | (2) That there are a variety of climatological, meteorological, astrological, thermological, cosmological, and ecological dynamics that can effect world weather phenomena and that the significance and interrelativity of these factors is largely speculative;
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Mind you, I completely agree that astrology and horoscopes interrelativity with other sciences is infact speculative
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DSquared
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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What were the big weather stories?
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bshmr
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| BTW, why is this the occidental new year? It doesn't correspond to any astronomical or observable event. |
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TS.
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| bshmr wrote: | | BTW, why is this the occidental new year? It doesn't correspond to any astronomical or observable event. |
Because this is a Canadian-based website, and the New Year just started in Canada. And it does correspond to an astronomical event - the completion of one rotation around the sun by the earth.
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| TS. wrote: | | .... And it does correspond to an astronomical event - the completion of one rotation around the sun by the earth. |
And, so that I among others can determine for ourselves just where a circle or ellipse (or orbit or ring) begins (or ends), do you ascertain that point.
wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year ) implies that 'new year' is relatively arbitrary. ... |
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Yeah, it's arbitrary, but it is still a definable astronomical event.
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We forgot the rescue of the Chilean miners! 
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sparqui
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Nationally, you forgot Harper stacking the Senate.
Internationally, FIFA World Cup in South Africa, strikes in France (pension changes), strikes in UK (student tuition hikes), Ireland's economic collapse, airport closures in Europe due to snowfalls, Brazil elects first female President.
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A decent award list.
2011 Dispatches News Awards
Dispatches From The Edge; Conn Hallinan; Jan 1 2012
Posted: December 28, 2011 · 10:22 PM
| Quote: | | Every year Dispatches From The Edge gives awards to news stories and newsmakers that fall under the category of “Are you serious?” Here are the awards for the year 2011. |
http://dispatchesfromtheedgeblog.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/2011-disp... |
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sparqui
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The PT Barnum Award has to be my favourite:
| Quote: | The P.T. Barnum Award to Dennis Montgomery, a computer programmer who scammed the U.S. government for more than $20 million. Montgomery claimed he had software that could spot terrorist conspiracies hidden in broadcasts by the Qatar-based Arabic news network, Al-Jazeera. He said his program could also detect hostile submarines and identify terrorists in Predator drone videos.
The Bush administration took his claims so seriously that in December 2003 it turned back flights from Britain, France and Mexico because the software had “discovered” the planes flight information embedded in an Al Jazeera’s crawl bar. The White House, fearing the planes would be used to attack targets in the U.S., actually talked about shooting the planes down.
The CIA eventually concluded the software was a fabrication, but rather than rebuking those in charge during the hoax—Donald Kerr and George Tenet—both men got promotions. The spy agency also didn’t bother to tell anyone in the military, so in 2009 the U.S. Air Force bought the bogus software for $3 million. |
Purchasing the same fraudulent software a second time - priceless.
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