This is funny:
During his time in office, Bush has received other gifts from Canadian prime ministers including an Inuit sculpture, valued at $350, from Paul Martin in 2004. In 2003, Jean Chrétien presented Bush with a wooden pen rest, estimated to be worth approximately $20.
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CBC News: Harper to bring Canadiana birthday gifts for Bush
Conventional oil reserves are declining and in the future 90% of resources will come from oil sands which gives only a a one per cent royalty on revenues until their capital costs (which tend to continue) are accounted for.
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CBC News Indepth: Reality Check
Shifting Baselines
One of many construction sites with the standard concrete delivery basket and operator.
This is a zoom in on the basket.
From Kuwait Times, Monday June 5, 2006
Went diving on Friday. Hot of course, and a longer boat ride, but much less crowded than Kubbar. Well the dive buddy had a camera and was snapping away lots. So here they are. It was quite nice diving, good visibility and the third dive was a drift dive (though no current). That was probably the best dive ever in Kuwait. We even saw a couple of fish getting cleaned by some smaller cleaner fish. That is cool, to see a fish cleaning station.
A drift dive is where you head out with the current if there is any and then at the end of the dive, from below the water you inflate a surface marker which you have on a line and send it to the surface so the boat or other boats see where you are and don’t run you over and your boat will come get you. That is why in the photos I am carrying Inspector Gadget stuff on my waist, spools for the marker buoy.
Here I am looking cool. There was no flash used and as the water absorbs red that is why it is so blue.
Go to the next page to see more photos. But I’m warning you, it is hard to always look cook with a regulator in your mouth and a SCUBA mask on.