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Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 31:Now, it gets dirty…
A communications specialist, so-called, is commonly a spin doctor – a person who lies for whoever will pay for it. There’s a beautiful example of it on p, 1 of today’s TandT. “Shale gas foes claim victory” That wasn’t written by one of the TandT’s hack editors. Think of it.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Guardian Praises BC’s Carbon Tax Initiative. Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch, or, Christy Clark’s Giant Methane Fart
According to The Guardian, British Columbia’s 5-year old experiment with carbon taxes has been a great success and stands as an example of to governments everywhere. In 2008, British Columbia implemented a carbon tax, with the revenue returned to citizens through lowered income taxes. A new peer-reviewed study examines the
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Super Thursday – The Day of the Liberal’s Reckoning
Tomorrow is the day that five by-elections – those are again Windsor-Tecumseh, London West, Etobicoke-Lakeshore, Scarborough-Guildwood, and Ottawa South – will be held. So far we’ve seen polling that is pretty much doom and gloom for the Liberals in pretty much ever riding, as well as super-low turnout numbers for
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Sammy Yatim: One More Word
While I can’t promise this will be my last post on Sammy Yatim, I do want to direct you to Rosie DiManno’s column and a few comments from The Star’s readers that remind us of the real nature of this tragedy. Writes DiManno: I am sickened by the content of
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Norm Farrell with Ian Jessop on CKDA
Tuesday, July 30, I was interviewed live by Ian Jessop on his afternoon program on CKDA1070. We talked about BCiMC for almost 30 minutes after 1:00 pm. You can listen online or by podcast HERE. I’ll be on Ian Jessop again in the future. Perhaps the next update will look
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Ice Crisis at the Poles: Ice, Ice, Baby
What continent is this, anyway? And why does it matter? The arctic ice cap will be fully melting in the next few summers, likely. There is a lake on top of the ice at the North Pole. Santa is getting worried. “On August 26, 2012, the Arctic sea ice extent
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Those Critical Five Seconds in the Life and Death of Sammy Yatim
Stills taken from security camera video of the Sammy Yatim execution, published by National Post, may be the most important evidence of all. They reveal, according to the paper, that the young man was felled by the very first round of nine shots fired by the Toronto police gunman. Yatim
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: By-election predictions
Here. Given how wrong polls are nowadays, you’d be a fool to make definitive predictions anymore. That’s why Eric Grenier, no fool, can now be seen applying qualifiers to every observation he makes. That’s what I find most interesting about his analysis, too: not the predictions, per se. The conditional
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Doing the math on a living wage
Via David Atkins at Hullabaloo, here’s an article about a business student named Arnobio Morelix who studied McDonald’s annual reports and investors’ data sets and crunched some numbers. He wanted to find out what the impact on McDonald’s prices would be if their employees were paid at least $15 an
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Scientists work to solve mystery of dying bees
Bees are endlessly intriguing, and incredibly useful to us – and not just for honey and wax. If bees disappeared, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to grow much of what we eat. Bees pollinate crops ranging from apples to zucchini. Blueberries and almonds are almost entirely dependent on
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Failing properly to wear seatbelt absolute or strict
R. v. Wilson, 2013 ONCA 503 allows leave to determine if failing to wear a seatbelt properly is absolute or strict liability : [5] In my view, it is a question of law alone whether s. 106(2) of the Highway Traffic Act imposes absolute liability or strict liability. Resolution of that question would have an impact
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Raising Gable Ends Alone
It’s more physically demanding than raising kids alone, yet no less fraught with peril. I’m just documenting my morning of partial success on my studio construction. I was ecstatic to figure out all the angles for the gable end. And it all fit perfectly – more or less. But then
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Heroin ad from 1902: "not addictive like morphine, does not cause constipation and is ten times less toxic than codeine"??
An ad from 1902 — the good old days when men were men — and they realized heroin was better than morphine for those lingering coughs…
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: Parliamentarians and the yoke of party discipline
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending a screening of Whipped, a documentary on party discipline by former BC legislature reporter Sean Holman. You can now stream the doc on the CPAC web site, and it’s well worth a look. While it’s focused on Victoria and BC
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: Not Authorized
Does it drive you crazy how laws don’t apply to the anointed ones? Multiple Obama anointed officials leaked official thoughts to the media anonymously. No one in the Main Stream Media is calling for their head on a platter. The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity before the order
Continue reading350 or bust: Shift Happens
* Here in Northern Ontario our lovely boreal summer is in full swing. The blueberries are starting to ripen, the ethereal call of the loons drifts up to our windows at night, and the zucchini are plentiful. This summer in my community we are lucky to be growing some “really
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Lunatic on Sun News Network set with Anita
This is what the excitement of live TV is all about, folks!
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