OpenMedia.ca: Rogers, you’ve left me with only quarters in my pocket!
Big Telecom insists Canadians’ high cell phone prices are a myth, yet we have seen and heard a very different story through your stories. Don’t let Big Telecom spin this story. Please SHARE this image to help spread the word about Canadians’ real cell phone experiences! read more
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: PC MPP Rick Nicholls steps in it again when his office issues a “fake” press release
I just don’t think he can help himself. To wit: Nicholls office stated that the multiplication of press releases was a standard occurrence within the PC party, and not plagiarism. The CKReview is well aware of press releases from political parties that duplicate the same message, however they do not offer quotes that never
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: EI and CPP Appeals consolidation begins
Regulations guiding the new Social Security Tribunal came into force April 1st, 2013, and are available online at the Canada Gazette. The SST combines the first and second level of client appeals for CPP, OAS, and EI into one tribunal. HRSDC expects that the changes will result in $25 million
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Cost consequences for changing evidence from discovery without notice
Malka v. Vasiliadis, 2013 ONCA 239 is an example of the failure to give notice that evidence given on discovery is no longer that to be given at trial lead to cost consequences. Such examples are uncommon and that case is useful: [1] We are troubled by the fact that at
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Cost consequences for changing evidence from discovery without notice
Malka v. Vasiliadis, 2013 ONCA 239 is an example of the failure to give notice that evidence given on discovery is no longer that to be given at trial lead to cost consequences. Such examples are uncommon and that case is useful: [1] We are troubled by the fact that at
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: BC NDP candidate resigns over racist comments against First Nations
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Dayleen Van Ryswyk, the BC NDP candidate for Kelowna-Mission, has resigned after the racist comments she made online against Canada’s First Nations surfaced earlier today. She also denigrated French Canadians. Called them bigots. This sad episode will not slow down the New Democrats‘ march to a
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Just How Many Climate "Sceptics" Are There?
A version of this post first appeared at RenewEconomy. WHEN Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that former Woodside gas company executive and lobbyist Gary Gray was Australia’s new energy and resources minister, questions turned quickly to his position on climate change. Did he accept the science, or was he
Continue readingThe Enlightened Savage: Boston
As news first trickled in, and then came as a torrent, about the bombings in Boston yesterday, my thoughts naturally turned to the morning of September 11th. Not to the horror of those minutes and hours. And not to the feelings of fear or helplessness that I felt on that
Continue readingThe Enlightened Savage: Boston
As news first trickled in, and then came as a torrent, about the bombings in Boston yesterday, my thoughts naturally turned to the morning of September 11th.
Not to the horror of those minutes and hours. And not to the feelings of fear or helplessness that I felt on that day as I watched my nice, safe, innocent naïveté disappear in clouds of fire, smoke and dust.
No, my thoughts yesterday turned to the people of the greater Boston area. In the aftermath of September 11th, the whole world saw the resilience of the people of New York as they dug out from the rubble and reclaimed their way of life. They heard the inspirational stories of New York’s Finest, and New York’s Bravest, and thousands of New Yorkers pulling together to make it through the dark days that followed the attacks.
One of the most touching things about that recovery was, to me, the way the people of Boston reached out and threw everything they had into helping their New York cousins. The rivalry between New York and Boston is legendary – but when New York most needed help, it was the people of Boston who jumped to their aid, without question or hesitation. “The Yankees still suck. What do you need?”
The men and women of Boston and of Massachusetts are the descendants of people who looked down the barrel of the greatest military power in the world and said “Bring it on, you’re not holding us down.” They took up arms against the imperial might of Great Britain, led a revolution, and won their freedom.
Cowards with gym bags and pressure cookers full of shrapnel can’t hold down the people of Boston. The full weight of King George’s army couldn’t keep them down – and neither will this.
They’ll stand up, and will keep fighting. Boston always does. They don’t know how to quit, and they never have.
EDIT, 4 pm: The New York Yankees posted this photo of Yankee Stadium on Facebook earlier. Clearly, the people of New York remember how Boston helped them in their hour of need better than I. That’s family: You don’t always like each other, and you fight like hell – but you’re still family.
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Forum Federal Poll: 43% Liberal, 30% Con, 19% NDP
The first post-Trudeau-win is out from Forum, a special case given that they usually don’t release one in the middle of a month. This polls is, by the way, an absolute whopper – the Trudeau honeymoon is not only in effect, but its even better than the previous hypothetical polling
Continue readingThe HB-Log : Green Game: Is Hunting your Meat "Sustainable?"
This article, “Ethical Killing,” popped up on my Facebook news feed today. The sub-headline is “hipsters, hippies and women are taking up hunting.” Hunting, apparently, is part of the sustainable food movement. Intriguing, as you don’t normally envision hunters as environmental crusaders. However, I’m not convinced by the suggestion that hunting is more “sustainable,” especially since greenhouse
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Hunger Strike Begins at Wallens Ridge State Prison
http://virginiaprisonstrike.blogspot.ca/2013/04/hunger-strike-begins-at-wallens-ridge.html on the main Kersplebedeb website: http://kersplebedeb.com/posts/hunger-strike-begins-at-wallens-ridge-state-prison/
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Stay on target…
(Thanks Mystro for the idea for the post title.) Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: heartwarming nature crap
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: InsideClimate wins Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Canada’s tar sands
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: On Monday, three reporters from nonprofit online news site InsideClimate were honored with a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Canada’s tar sands and rupturing oil pipelines. Elizabeth McGowan, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer were honored for their reporting on “The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You’ve Never Heard
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: After all, what would a Minister of Revenue know about taxes?
Committee studying offshore tax evasion will not question revenue minister A finance committee study on tax havens will be written without input from National Revenue Minister Gail Shea after the Conservative majority struck down an NDP request to question the minister about spending priorities inside her department. In arguing against
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 16: As I was saying in yesterday’s blog….
….but, first, let’s deal with today’s paper, then go to what I was saying yesterday._______________________________________________________________________________ What’s glaringly missing is the story of the massive oil spill from a pipeline in Arkansas. Such spills are not unusual. The oil doesn’t just flow through pipelines; it’s under pressure that moves it, millions of tons of
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Harper Hate-Mongering
The latest attack ad, this one against newly-appointed Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau, serves as a timely reminder of the Harper government’s seemingly endless capacity for hateful and divisive propaganda. In this, I make an all-too obvious observation. But I have, for some time, wondered about the audience for those
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Boston Marathon Murders were Probably Domestic Terrorism
I’m pretty sure that American authorities are trying to hunt down whoever detonated Claymore mines at the finish-line of the Boston Marathon yesterday. One Indian paper had an account yesterday from an Indo-American special forces vet who ran the race and was at the scene shortly after the bombs/mines went
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5868…Conservative Austerity
From Merry Ole. BTW, straight cremation, 1240 in Ottawa according to the ads I get on Facebook. WFDS
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