(ingredients as per Ed Lawrence)
2 cups boiling water
6 Tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon boric acid
Dissolve the sugar in the boiling water. Add the boric acid and stir until dissolved.
Take any pint-sized plastic container and cut small holes into the sides at the bottom to allow ants access to crawl inside. Dip cotton balls into the solution, [...]
CBC created a two hour celebration of Canadian inventions. The “top one hundred” are listed here, and include: the light bulb, insulin, the telephone, the Wonderbra, the zipper, the snowmobile, basketball, Pablum, the Walkie-Talkie, and my food favourite Poutine!
This video from CBC Television’s “Rick Mercer Report” ran during the big same sex marriage debate in Canada — thankfully same sex couples now have the legal right to be married in Canada.
You can visit Rick Mercer’s web site and blog at: www.rickmercer.com/, his older address is here.
