@davidakin Unlike Mr. Mulcair, I did not intimidate the officer. Unlike Mr. Mulcair, I received a ticket. I immediately paid the ticket. Ctd— Eve Adams (@MPEveAdams) June 18, 2013 @davidakin At no time did I identify myself as a Member of Parliament and since I do not wear an MP
Continue readingBuckdog: Sask Premier Brad Wall ‘Displays Double Standard’ … Criticised By All Other Sask Political Party Leaders
Premier Brad Wall has really stepped into a big mess with his criticism of Federal Liberal Leader, Justin Trudeau. All leaders of Saskatchewan political parties have now made that perfectly clear:=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=Sask New Democrats “Wall has criticized federal Liberal party leader Trudeau for accepting hefty payments for speaking at charity events,
Continue readingRecreating Eden: The Red Haired Neanderthal
I’m currently messing around in our deep, deep past, trying to get a fix on the roads that humans have traveled for a new non-fiction book to be called Road through Time. One of the delightful things is to discover that the red-haired genes I carry–once having redhair myself and
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Victoria 2012 By-Election – Poll-by-Poll
My apologies for putting this out so late, I just hadn’t gotten around to fixing up the required data I needed. I’ll endeavour to get this kind of stuff out earlier. You may or may not remember, but last November the New Democrats nearly lost an ultra-safe riding centered on
Continue readingThings Are Good: Mongolia Builds Their First Wind Farm
Mongolia is entering the sustainable energy market and the country aims to export renewable energy to its neighbours. It’s great to see countries that are not as well-off as others build the needed infrastructure for a sustainable future. Mongolia is so windy and has such harsh winters, in fact, that
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: June 19: A dynamite headline…..
….I iwonder if the editor who wrote that page one headline understands the whole meaning of it. “Moncton planning for climate change effects”. (Actually, it’s only planning for some effects, particularly flooding and, to a degree, storms. There seems to be nothing here for drought or food shortages….or,,,,_ Well, let’s start
Continue readingwmtc: things i heard at the library: an occasional series: # 9, or why this new librarian found the reference desk a little scary
In this post, I described doing reference as “a bit scary,” and Impudent Strumpet asked why. I started to write an answer, ran out of time, then found myself on my first real shift at the reference desk! During my training and orientation weeks, I did two half-shifts at the
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Half of First Nations children in Canada live in poverty, study finds
By: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | Press Release: OTTAWA – Indigenous children in Canada are over two and a half times more likely to live in poverty than non-Indigenous children, according to a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and Save the Children Canada.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My daughter, who is amazing
That little person? That’s my daughter. She is amazing. Tonight, somewhat older, she graduates from high school – and, I suspect, she’ll be graduating on the honour roll. It’s been quite a journey for her, and us, her family. From Whitehorse, to Ottawa, to Vancouver, to Toronto. And this
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: But how was Harper’s golf score?
Hopefully, Prime Minister Stephen Harper had a better golf score than German Chancellor Angela Merkel. It really does not make sense for the world leaders to meet at a golf course in Northern Ireland and not play a round. Surely they all know that all work and no play makes
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tory Appointees Move To Muscle Bill C-304 Through Senate
The link is to Marc Lemire’s site (one-time leader of the white supremacist Heritage Front), so you may not want to click though, but what he’s saying sounds right: the Senate Tories are no longer allowing their Liberal counter-parts to adjourn debate on Bill C-304. By the end of the
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The New Chinese Connection #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale took off for China on Tuesday as part of a new effort to get Chinese state-owned companies to invest in the province’s mining and offshore oil and gas industries. The story brought to mind three things. (Read more…)
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Being Insulted By Cheney Is An Honour
It bothers me that American media doesn’t preface interviews with Dick Cheney by pointing out he’s evaded charges for war crimes (re: Iraq War). It does please me that Snowden has had a chance to respond to Cheney’s hypocritical rebuke of Snowden’s epic NSA PRISM leak. Snowden responds 2 Cheney
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Moral Bankruptcy And Strategic Errors
Like the morally bankrupt coward that he is, our Prime Prevaricator, Stephen Harper, recently made another ham-fisted attempt to discredit Justin Trudeau (a man, by the way, who does not especially impress me.) Given his general contempt for the intelligence of the majority of Canadians, it probably seemed like a
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Why aren’t they happy? #nlpoli
Here are some screen captures for your consideration. CBC’s Jeremy Eaton took the video as part of his coverage of a great announcement. The provincial government is putting money into a pilot project that would let some personal care homes take in residents needing higher levels of care than the
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6164…Cronuts: This Year’s Food Trend
You read it here first coz I read it first on NBC’s today.com. The cronut is the faddiest of the faddiest foods in New York City. Made at the Dominique Ansel Bakery in SoHo this is Mr. Ansel’s brain flash of taking a croissant and a donut and marrying them.How hot
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Gulf Gets Bigger
Two reports — one released yesterday, the other today — paint a pretty grim picture of where the country is. The Huffington Post reports that Canada’s wealthiest continued to do well last year: The stock markets came roaring back after a shaky 2011, and so did the wealthy. Canada’s high
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6163…Peterboro Weighs In On Dean Del Mastro
From The Peterborough Examiner comes this letter to the editor regarding that town’s second favourite son. Masterful performance suspended the facts Re “MP wants his name cleared” (June 14) – Dean Del Mastro gave a stunning performance in the House of Commons last week, asking for the Standing Committee on
Continue readingChristy's Houseful of Chaos politics » Christy's Houseful of Chaos: Sudbury’s fight against the municipal replacement for CSUMB
The Ontario Liberal government’s ended the Community Start Up and Maintenance Budget (CSUMB) as of Jan. 1, 2013. A portion of the money previously going towards CSUMB was put into municipally run programs, including a one time payment of $42 million, spread across the province to help during the ‘transition year’. The Sudbury Coalition
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Fantastic, The Wretched and The “Oh F*ck, No”
Sometimes “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” just isn’t strong enough. In one of my recent youtube sessions I ran quite the emotional gamut. Let’s start on a high note, shall we? The Fantastic First we have a long overdue “Hero of the Day”. For quite some time, the
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