Never a cop when you need one.

Police in Couquitlam, BC are still taking calls after more than 100 cars were vandalized in a 24 hour period. It seems that the cars were scratched up in the parking lot of a local theatre and in the surrounding residential neighborhood. What blows my mind is that a person or persons unknown committed the same crime 100 times in a small area in 24 hours and not one cop saw them! Just further proof that the rare times when you need a cop, they're nowhere to be found.

Then of course there is the problem of people with enough wealth and influence to attempt to change the law as they see fit. The Irvings are challenging the constitutionality of the Migratory Birds Conservation act, which is intended to protect Canada's endangered birds in an attempt to weasel out of charges of intentionally destroying great blue heron nests near Cambridge Narrows, 80 kilometers north of Saint John. The situation in New Brunswick is such that the Irving family can make policy here (mainly by threatening to move large industrial facilities out of the province), we can only hope that their bullying will not succeed at the Federal level.

It seems that some companies do care about the environment. Several companies have introduced computers with aluminum casings, which are easier to recycle and can be recycled more times than conventional plastics. Asus has gone one step further by offering laptops and a monitor partly encased in bamboo. Since bamboo is such a fast-growing plant, this might even put them close to being able to offer a carbon neutral laptop.