The Disaffected Lib: Arms Race Update – China’s New Missile Subs
They’re called “Boomers,” submarines capable of launching nuclear armed ballistic missiles. The Americans and the Russians have had them for decades, the French, Brits and Chinese too. Western navies used to spend massively on anti-submarine warfare ships and aircraft designed to detect enemy subs before they could get into position
Continue readingBuckdog: ‘Through the looking glass’ …. Liberal Senator Pana Merchant elected to sit on financial transparency board
OTTAWA — A Liberal senator whose name has been attached to an offshore tax haven has been elected to sit on an international board that advocates for greater transparency among the world’s financial institutions. Ethics filings for Sen. Pana Merchant show she was elected to the board of directors of
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Cavoukian: she got it wrong. And now she needs to do the honourable thing.
Here are quotes from statements that Ann Cavoukian, Ontario’s “Information and Privacy Commissioner,” made on June 5: “It is difficult to accept that the routine deletion of emails was not in fact an attempt by staff…to avoid transparency and accountability.” And: “The fact that you’re just wiping it all away
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: How Much Of a Third World Country is Okay for Canada?
We’ve been given a price tag for adapting Canada’s essential infrastructure to climate change – one trillion dollars, give or take a few billion. I’m pretty sure that’s an American trillion – one thousand billion – not the British trillion – one million billion. So let’s say we spread that
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Nostalgia Redux. Rule Brittania!
So as a followup to my last post about the Conservatives hyping up the old British Empire/Commonwealth ties (The War of 1812, ditching the Maple Leaf insignia and going to the British insignias on the Canadian Forces uniforms, and a couple of other moves the past couple of years), I
Continue readingChadwick's Blog & Commentary: Believing is Seeing
“He who permits himself to tell a lie once,” wrote Thomas Jefferson (in a letter to his nephew, Peter Carr, from Paris, France, 1785), “finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: HSBC Chief Economist Warns of Youth Uprising Across Europe
Stephen King (no, not that Stephen King), HSBC Chief Economist sees the same conditions emerging in today’s Europe that triggered the 1831 peasants’ uprising against the British aristocracy. In King’s scenario it won’t be the peasants but youth and the aristocracy will be today’s Baby Boomers. Then, the country had
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Existential email question
If an email is deleted but is still available on the server, was it ever really deleted in the first place? Too bad that Ann Cavoukian didn’t retrieve emails from the server before issuing her report last month. In which, aside from all the crazy rhetoric, included this: “[T]he Commissioner
Continue readingLeft Over: Pandering to the Impotent
‘Men’s rights’ group behind sexual assault posters Posters mimic well-known ‘Don’t be that guy’ campaign against sexual assault CBC News Posted: Jul 10, 2013 6:59 PM MT Last Updated: Jul 11, 2013 1:03 AM MT In Alberta, you say? Why am I not surprised? The dinosaurs sucking up their ancestral
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6231…Does Wal Mart Hate Dogs?
The one in Kemptville, Ontario, a town about 30 minutes south of Parliament Hill, seems too. Or to. The Cornwall Free News offers the news that “Reports from CBC allege that Carley Cheney was fired by her manager after being called in for calling police after a Walmart customer left their dog
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6230…Senator Sarah Palin
It could happen. Gawker.com reports that the former Governor of Alaska told Sean Hannity on his WABC and national radio show that “…she was considering a run against Alaskan Senator Mark Begich, a Democrat, in the 2014 election.” She went on to say that “I’m still waiting to see what
Continue readingthe disgruntled democrat: Hey America, Wake up and Smell the Methane
This week, I watched the premiere of Josh Fox’s documentary film, Gasland II. Very troubling. The story line confirms that America has lost its moorings and has veered off in a new direction, casting off the poor lost souls who have the misfortune of standing in the way of corporate
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how the Cons’ abuse of supporters’ donations can only stoke cynicism about the value of participating in politics – but how the limited number of people currently involved in politics creates a huge opportunity to change the system. For further reading…– Samara’s poll and analysis on public participation
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 11: journalistic scumbags..
…that’s a lower category than presstitutes. 1. A reader has informed me that Dr. Cleary, our Chief Medical Officer whose advice those twits in Federicton ignored when she warned about the dangers of shale gas, is getting a major, national award today. The Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors is
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Political peccadilloes please public.
A news story the other day said that researchers were surprised to learn that voters are not turned off by the more personal and seamier side of political news. It is too bad they never asked any politicos about it. Not that political apparatchiks are gossips, mind you, but they
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On glibertarianism
One of the more obvious points of convergence in political thought over the past 70-80 years is the greater appreciation of systemic complexity – the recognition that different decisions by many types of actors may collide in unpredictable ways, with the results potentially far outweighing the perceived impact of any
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, July 11, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, July 11, 2013: Single Fathers on Rise Allow Google, Microsoft to disclose national security order data: rights groups US legal sector loses 3,600 jobs in June Polygamy, exploitation charges considered in Bountiful case Walmart Threatens To Shut
Continue readingDefending Public Healthcare: Ontario: 6.1 fewer hours of care per hospital patient
The real costs for the average hospital acute care patient are declining. As noted yesterday this is true for both Ontario and Canada, based on data just released from the Canadian Institute for Health Information. But the CIHI data also revealed other interesting trends, likely related. Administrative Costs Decline: Administrative costs continue their long
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Star Readers Opine On Harper’s Self-Reported Ignorance (I Didn’t Do It) And Mike Duffy’s Avarice
Some days, all I have to do is open my newspaper for my blog post. Today is one of those days. Enjoy. Harper kept public in dark, July 6 When the stuff hits the fan, “plausible deniability” allows politicians to say, “I didn’t know; no-one told me.” This is what
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