The CRTC has received a letter from the CBC asking for hearings regarding their license renewal to be postponed, in large part due to the fact that the Corporation’s operating budget is open for discussion.
Continue readingAll About the Timing
The movie “Pink Ribbons“, which explores breast cancer fundraising by groups like Susan G Komen, is being released tomorrow. Komen’s decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood has been in the works for some time now; one top Komen official quit over it in December. As Dave suggests, the Komen
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Time to tune out Minister Moore
Columnist calls for Stephen Harper to remove Heritage Minister James Moore from his portfolio over comments related to the appropriateness of the CBC’s French affiliate showing foreign pornography on its website.
Continue readingThings Are Good: Competitive Carbon Footprint: GreenPocket
A German company had created a ‘game’ called GreenPocket that aims to make shrinking your carbon footprint competitive and fun. I’m quite curious how this will actually work, but I’m happy to see that the idea of making energy conservation entertaining is gaining steam. Based in Cologne, GreenPocket is a
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CTF cries foul on CBC link to ‘Friends’ By Kris Sims
FRIENDS disputes The Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s claims that steering committee members are on the CBC’s payroll.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Weathermen For Republicans
Most people don’t trust their weather forecaster celebrities to be correct more than 50% of the time. I just made up that statistic, the same way many weathermen have done with comments about climate change during their forecasts. 2011 broke nearly every storm record there was to be broken, and
Continue readingFaux News North fakes it
Who’s the “state broadcaster” now? Unable to pull enough new Canadians away from their gainful employment to take a citizenship oath for a video clip, the folks at SunTV enlisted the help of their good friend Jason Kenney. Some hand-picked, suitably brown-skinned bureaucrats were duly sent over to the studios
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Federal cuts could push unemployment to 8%
Now that the government is planning for an $8 billion cut, the potential job losses could drive job losses to between 99,000 and 108,000 full time positions across Canada. At this much higher level, the federal government could be single-handedly responsible for pushing national unemployment from its current 7.5% to
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Raising The OAS Eligibility Age Would Raise Poverty in Old Age
Canadian Press have put out a story based on a research paper by Richard Shillington which was commissioned by HRSDC from Informetrica, and obtained by the CLC through an Access to Information request. Receiving OAS is required to makes seniors eligible for the GIS top up, which provides one in
Continue readingCanadian Country singer comes out in new video
A Canadian country singer Drake Jensen has come out. His latest video is in memory of Jamie Huberly and all the young people that have taken their lives as a result of bullying and homophobia. “As a child I always knew there was something different about me above and beyond
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Bringing a whole new meaning to the phrase "political theatre"
I’m sure a lot of my fellow bloggers will be all over this story but I wanted my own copy to refer back to. I expect to get a lot of mileage out of this one. Federal bureaucrats pose as ‘new Canadians’ on Sun News Six federal bureaucrats were drafted
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Anti Intellectual
The Harper government is willing to spend money — on prisons and F35 jets. The simple truth is that it’s not willing to spend money on pensions. Therefore, its “improvement” to the pension system is to be voluntary and administered by private financial interests. For Stephen Harper, a strong public
Continue readingViews from the lake - eh?: “StatsCan loses top economic analyst over census”
I have to say I’m having some difficulty getting incensed over this story. (Stats Can loses top economic analyst over census). A top Statistics Canada official has resigned his post, citing the end of the mandatory long-form census and the stifling of debate at the agency as his reasons for
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Rumpole and the Better Half #nlpoli
You likely won’t hear much mention of this provincial first but in the midst of the hoopla over Muskrat Falls on Wednesday, the justice minister announced a first for Provincial Court: a husband and wife will sit as judges at the same time. Former director of public prosecutions Pamela Goulding,
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, February 02, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines for Thursday, February 02, 2012 from Wise Law on Twitter: 12 More Law Schools Sued Over Reporting of Law Grad Employment and Salary Stats Strip club not liable after man contracts HIV from dancer, court told – Vancouver Sun Former Intern Sues Hearst Over
Continue readingViews from the lake - eh?: “Federal bureaucrats posed as ‘new Canadians’ for Sun News event”
And don’t forget to tune in at noon today when SUN TV’s Ezra Levant interviews Jason Kenney, Canada’s Minister of Citizenship, Immigration, and Multiculturalism, here seen holding the flag at a recent citizenship ceremony.
Continue reading#Occupy The Cure
I’ve either got the flu or I’m nauseated by the Susan G. Komen/Planned Parenthood fiasco. I’ll take Door #2, SGK/PP, for $200 — the donation that will now go fucking directly to Planned Parenthood since Komen made the ill-advisedly cruel decision to aquiesce to the ideological pressure of fetus fetishists
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Globalized Palestine
I started working full time on the initial draft of this book, in English, about three years ago. While I was seeking a publisher for the English edition, I was determined to have it appear in Arabic first, and in Palestine, because I sought for it to generate national public
Continue readingQueer-liberal: A political strategy for re-visiting the Catholic school system in Ontario…
Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal government has a minority of seats. Re-visiting the Catholic school system isn’t something that will likely be contemplated right now with the government’s fate hanging in the balance. But nevertheless this issue screams for action! This is perhaps Dalton McGuinty’s last term as our ‘Education Premier’ (unless
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: A Little Nurse Bashing to Start Your Day
For breakfast, how about some outrageous libel from physician-blogger Terry Simpson (Twitter: @DocSimpson). File this under how not to blog about a serious issue in health care: The Arizona State Nursing board has asked that this nurse [Amanda Trujillo] undergo a psychiatric evaluation. The board is charged with protecting the
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