Please forgive the redundancy of the title. I just came across this little gem from Harper’s 2006 campaign via Bill Oates on Twitter, who also offered this observation: In 2006, Harper and the cons lied about “100s of millions of missing $” Now they’re missing $3.1B. Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 24: Fast-breaking news…Irving press style
Yes, it’s right there at the top of p B1. “Lawsuit launched over train disaster”. Now, there’s a story that broke some days ago.But – better late than never. Yes. The MMA railway is getting sued by the first of what will be many people in Lac-Megantic whose lives were
Continue readingMind of Dan: ‘Nobody understands’ spills at Alberta oil sands operation
An oil spill in a tar sand operation in Northern Alberta has been going on for weeks and nobody seems to understand how it happened or how to stop it. From The Toronto Star: Oil spills at a major oil sands operation in Alberta have been ongoing for at least
Continue readingBuckdog: Former Sask Premier Roy Romanow Says Health-care Reform Will Go Gurther With Federal Support – Urges PM Harper To Meet With Premiers
Stephen Harper continues to avoid meeting with Canada’s Premiers as they struggle to deal with a variety of issues that face each province and the nation as a whole.“Prime Minister Stephen Harper has to meet with Canada’s premiers to make the most out of provincial and territorial efforts to stretch
Continue readingknitnut.net: Pharmacists: Not just pill counters
I recently discovered that pharmacists can do way more than count pills and warn me not to operate machinery. This newfound knowledge came as a result of two surprisingly positive encounters with pharmacists in the last couple of weeks. (Not that my prior encounters with pharmacists were negative; for the
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Heretofore, I am to be known as Miguel Angel Dynamite
I’m about to go on Sun News about Weiner’s weiner, among other things. So I decided to try out Slate’s fun Carlos Danger Name Generator, here. I am now officially Miguel Angel Dynamite. That is how I expect to addressed on Sun News, too.
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Panel Discussion on California Hunger Strike
Panel Discussion: The California Prisoner Hunger Strike & Ending Long-term Solitary Confinement on 7-17-13 at Revolution Books in Berkeley, CA Andres Thomas Conteris, CloseGitmo.net – Stop U.S. Torture in Gitmo and U.S. Prisons; Director, Program of the Americans of Nonviolence International — recently interviewed hunger strikers in Pelican Bay SHU
Continue readingLeDaro: Anthony Weiner: Sexting continued after 2011 resignation from Congress
And this guy is running for the mayorality of New York City. One has to admire the patience of his wife. It is about time that he should put his weiner in the freezer. “New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, who resigned from Congress in 2011 after a sexting
Continue readingLeDaro: E-Cigarettes
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Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, July 24, 2013: Appeal court rules FDA can’t allow execution drug to be imported Guatemalan mine claims against HudBay can be tried in Canada, judge says – The Globe and Mail Banned from campus over ‘Hot for
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: A party like the others #nlpoli
Among the oldest of old Canadian political jokes is that you went to the Tory conventions to drink, the Liberal conventions to get laid, and the NDP ones to pick up pamphlets. Well, as it turns out the NDP have now joined the ranks of the old parties. The Ottawa
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Protected: Medical Abuse in 2013 California Prison Strikes
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Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Casting runes in the heat of summer.
Political polling has never been an exact science. It has always required an overview of common sense, mathematical probability, historical data, statistical smoothing and wishful thinking. Then, and only then, could you report the result you wanted in the first place. In the past 50 years, little has changed. Looking
Continue readingThings Are Good: Saudi Arabia Starts $109 Billion Push for Renewable Energy
The end of cheap oil is inevitable and it’s clear that at least one oil-producing nation gets that. Unlike Canada, which seemingly wants to destroy half a province, Saudi Arabia (with the second-largest oil reserves) is looking to invest a lot of money into fossil-fuel-free energy. Saudi Arabia wants it’s
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Diverse International coalition launches alternative process to secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership talks
openmedia_logo.jpg Coalition to TPP negotiators: It’s time to move beyond secret meetings and join with the public to chart a better course for our digital future. July 24, 2013 – The Fair Deal Coalition has launched a new initiative that will give Internet users a platform to discuss what copyright
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Mr. Harper’s Balloon
Michael Harris writes that the Harper government has a new emblem — a “two and a half storey hot air balloon floating high in the parliamentary sky over the Ottawa River: Senator Mike Duffy, clutching a briefcase stuffed with cash.” Mr. Harper has always claimed that he is a wise
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quackery Smack Down on the Australian Broadcasting Network
Chiropractors it is your term to take the sauce and see that the woo you peddle is twaddle and dangerous to people. Filed under: Quackery, Science Tagged: ABC, Chiropractic Woo, Quackery
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: CNBC Host Squawks Climate Denial in Twitter Meltdown
This is a guest post by Emily Southard, Campaign Manager of Forecast the Facts Joe Kernen, co-host of CNBC’s Squawk Box, lashed out on Twitter this month at concerned CNBC viewers and individuals who called on him to accurately report the facts about the economic risks of climate change. Kernen’s comments
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism`s 40% With Intellectual Disability? Auti$m $peak$ Doesn’t See YOU, Doesn’t Speak For YOU!
Autism Speaks has done much to create publicity around the word autism, the color blue, puzzle pieces and … some very talented, high functioning individuals with autism diagnoses like Alex Plank and J. E. Robison. In terms of its public statements and presentations though it does little to nothing to
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