CANADIAN LABOUR EDMONTON: HOSPITAL WORKERS WILDCAT IN EDMONTON: Sometimes some people such as bosses need a little wake-up call before they move at all. Such seemed to be the case recently in Edmonton hospitals where contract negotiations have been stalled for almost a year. Here’s a little item from the
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4236…Like Bill C-10 This Looks Great On Paper…
…but…in reality it is going to cause a sh*t storm and a half. Megan Oglvie in yesterday’s Toronto Star opened her piece with this: The narcotic painkiller OxyContin will soon be pulled from pharmacy shelves across the country, and addiction experts warn the move will spark a public health crisis
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4235…Shortsightedness In The Drummond Report
In my opinion the Drummond Report is, like many other a c t i o n s of its kind [see Mike Harris; Stephen Harper] short sighted and seems to be written by someone who is both ivory towerish and won’t personally be impacted by the report. An example thereof
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4234…You’ve Had A Bad Day When…
…you are just minding your own business flying your little biddy one engined Cessna from here to there in Southern California and out of no where two F 16 fighter planes roll in and force you to land. Steve Gorman of Reuters goes on to write that when you land
Continue readingDid The Wife Of The ‘Not Conflicted’ CBC Ledge Guy Just Get A Promotion?
AllTheRestructuringThatFits (not)PremierVille As Laila notes, Christy Clark’s Press Secretary, Mr. Chris Olsen, has been fired. Errrrr…… Restructured. So. Does this mean that the current Deputy Press Secretary, Ms. Rebecca Scott, will now become the big cheese? And if so…. Does that, in turn, mean that CBC Legislative Bureau Chief, Mr.
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Willie Nelson & Our Beautiful Sustainable New World
Willie Nelson & Our Beautiful Sustainable New World (via EcoLocalizer) television commercial,inhumane factory farming,Willie Nelson,urgent importance,urgent need,visual masterpiece,horrific damage,significant task,Coldlpay song,resonant message,majestic poetry,Mexican restaurant,educational animation,short film,sustainable way,loathe,Coldplay,genius,antibiotics,restructuring,factory,chemicals,food system,deftly,The film,Chipotle
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: It’s a bird; it’s a hockey stick; it’s a faked document!
heartland.gif Heartland response would be a useful PR tactic The Climate Strategy that was emailed to the DeSmogBlog with a package of material from the Heartland Institute’s Jan. 17 Board of Directors meeting is serving as an excellent distraction from the legitimate issues raised in the other documents and reinforced
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Radical policies for which no one voted
Rowan Williams is the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, an office that dates back 1,400 years. Often outspoken, occasionally radical, Williams served for one issue last summer as guest editor of the New Statesmen, a British publication with a long record of presenting alternative opinions. In the magazine, Williams posed questions
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4233…President Michelle Bachmann
I love the way that roles off the tongue. Along with Veep Ron Paul. Yeah, now you are talking! Anyhow the crazy lady from Minny was mentioned in Slate. She says she is going to decline an offer to go on ABC’s Dancing With The Stars.ABC is pretty sure they
Continue readingStupid (Anti-)Sex Tricks: The American Lie League, and other hilarious crapagandroids
Need a good laugh tonight? Here ya go: Mmmmmm, penis cupcakes and vagina macaroons! Yummy! Jezebel calls this “the most hilariously lewd thing you’ll ever see”, and they’re not far from the truth. This hysterical video inadvertently gives away the makers’ own creepy fetishes. Calling Planned Parenthood a pusher of
Continue readingcmkl: So the world may be headed to heck in a handbasket
But I had so much fun with #TellVicEverything that I’m okay with it for now. Tomorrow, I’ll be right back at it working to lessen the stupid and increase the peace but I’m still chuckling over the fun Twitter had at the expense of someone who by all accounts deserves
Continue readingOn Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind's Eye: You Don’t Say… February 16, 2012
I’m not saying that I knew Whitney Houston well or that I will mourn for days now that she is gone, but the world lost a talented performer and one hell of a voice. Rest in peace Whitney. I’m not saying I’m having second thoughts about thinking it’s a good
Continue readingDon Drummond’s austerity medicine: suck it, Ontario | #onpoli
I’m a little late to the game, so not much in the way of new or innovative analysis or reaction. For starters, though, I’d recommend you take a look at my friend @cityslikr’s thoughts over at his place. Dude’s been away for a few days (and his explanation isn’t entirely
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Crossroads Television System denied licence amendment
CTS went before the CRTC asking for an amendment in regards to balanced programming, required by their licence for two Alberta stations and the Burlington station. Currently CTS is required to: The licensee shall broadcast a minimum of 18 hours of balance programming in every broadcast week, of which 11
Continue readingT. Jefferson and Me.
BuryingOne’sHeadInSiliconValleySandDoesNotCount OstrichVille I have been using Apple products since before that (allegedly Anti-Orwellian Superbowl commerical from 1984…. In fact, the first machine I used seriously was an Apple IIe. And I wrote my gradual school thesis on an SE. And then I first started fiddling with an early version of
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Foster Friess on Contraception
Rick Santorum’s billionaire “sugar daddy” stuns MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell with his retrograde “joke” on the subject of contraception: Hard though it is to believe that U.S. politics of late has shifted into the bizarre realm of ridiculous “culture war” issues like contraception, it’s absolutely no surprise whatsoever that the key
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4232…The Kid Is Dead
My mom says that deaths come in threes and the death today of Gary Carter, the greatest Montreal Expo ever, makes it three celeb deaths this week: Whitney, Wheels and The Kid. He had been diagnosed a while back with brain cancer and that is what finally did him in.
Continue readingGOP Culture war might win them an election
#gop #obama #politics #socialissues Watching the GOP nomination race unfold, I note that its taken a shift to the weird with the unexpected debate over contraception erupting over the news media of America. Or maybe its a brilliant strategy. Triggering a culture war is something that helps Republicans…and its not
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Canadian Press: Who will pick up the tab for online spying?
By Jim Bronskill for The Canadian Press The government’s online surveillance bill — already hitting snags over privacy — is raising concerns among Internet providers about who’ll pick up the tab. The legislation would allow authorities access to Internet subscriber information — including name, address, telephone number and email address
Continue readingForget Nazi comparisons. MLK is the new go-to-guy for beleaguered Republicans. Darrell Issa edition.
What do you do when you’re a right winger and the blowback against a sexist and ‘autocratic regime’ brings a shitstorm to your door? If you’re disgraced Darrell Issa, you don’t try to accommodate the overwhelming opposition to your unequal actions or amend your operation, you double down by bringing in a
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