With The Kyoto deadline at the end of the month Canada is in no way going to reach it’s target of 6% below 1990 levels. In fact in 2008 the only provinces who actually reduced their emissions below 1990 levels is Quebec and PEI. All the other provinces increased. I
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Possible Prenatal, Environmental, Causes of Autism Disorders: Valproate Drugs?
The following information is taken from a July, 2011 information update on the Health Canada web site. It indicates that recent studies have found that “children whose mothers took a valproate drug tend to score lower on cognitive (intelligence) tests than children whose mothers who took other anti-epileptic medications during
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Public interest journalism in BC?
December 1, Glacier Media Inc. completed the acquisition of Postmedia Network Inc.’s community newspapers in British Columbia and the Times Colonist. . The Lower Mainland Publishing Group media assets include: North Shore News, Vancouver Courier, Burnaby Now, New Westminster Record/Royal City Record, Richmond News Delta Optimist Surrey Now Coquitlam Now
Continue readingMike Holmes’s Holme-run
Mike Holmes said it best regarding the housing crisis in Attawapiskat. We need to stop building crap. It’s as simple as that Couple this with the allegation that the Government knew of the problems in Attawakpiskat for several years. Retired Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl recounted to Evan Solomon on
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Is Withholding Sex Now Sex Abuse?
Or, Is Lysistrata A Sex Offender? I attended today, along with Alex, a discussion panel to remember the Montreal Massacre where Marc Lepine murdered fourteen women at the École Polytechnique simply because they were women and he thought that they had prevented him from attending the school. A lot of
Continue readingThe Sun: Demonizing organized labour, no matter what | #cdnpoli #onpoli
Take a guess which bit of birdcage-liner this is from. You don’t even need the facts to know which way they’ll torque it. One can’t help but remember the bad old days of the Harris regime, when picking fights with teachers was pretty much all there was to education policy.
Continue readingcentre of the universe: To Speak Without Speaking
Let us have this conversation, then The one that begins in separate rooms with averted glances. Let us cross paths as less than strangers In great wide swaths and arcing patterns Thank God for passageways. Every word is a strategy. … Continue reading →
Continue readingLaw is Cool: Tea Party Ignorant of the U.S. Constitution
Eight reasons why the Tea Party appears ignorant of the American constitution: 1. Congress enjoys a Constitutional authority to provide social services. 2. SCOTUS has upheld broad federal powers under the Constitution. 3. Far from outlawing gay marriage, Constitutional Amendments actually protect it. 4. The 14th Amendment forbids severe immigration
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: “Beware of the tattoo preacher [Todd Bentley]“, Britian’s Sunday Express newspaper warns its readers
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. I can imagine that Todd Bentley might have been running around to every grocery and newsagents in Cwmbran, Wales, hoping that he could buy every copy of the Sunday Express that he could find before anyone read the newspaper’s story about
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Branson: OCW “A Good Start”
Eccentric billionaire Sir Richard Branson somewhat surprisingly expressed his support for the OCW movement the other day, admitting they had “very valid reasons” to be protesting. “It’s now up to the business community to ensure that we show the way so that they can go, the Occupy Wall Street can
Continue readingWankers of the Week: First Badvent edition
Crappy weekend, everyone! Wow, first Advent…first week of December…where did the past week go? If you spent any of it fighting other shoppers in stores (some armed with pepper spray, oy vey), you may have saved a few bucks, but you wasted your time. But never fear, you can make
Continue readingTory Hacks: tools then and tools now.
So it goes with Tory hacks, just show up and do what you’re told. Where isn’t too important, why isn’t too important either. You just have to do it, for whatever your interests may be. It may be power, it may be money, it may even be a combination of
Continue readingcmkl: Might this be the end of co-sleeping?
Since Mallory just up and decided to sleep by herself in her own room (November 19) we’ve had one hybrid night, where she came into my room at about 2am, one fallback night where she decided she wanted to sleep in my bed, one night where we had a guest
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Cain “Suspends” Joke Campaign
As expected, Herman Cain announced today that he’s effectively dropping out of the race to be Leader of the Free World. I know… we’re all terribly let down by the decision. Cain claimed he made the decision “with a lot of prayer and soul searching” and blamed it on “the
Continue readingBe nice.
Niceness is the recognition of grace over substance. Niceness is the recognition of approach versus fact. Niceness is the social system of hypocritical suppression of negativity (fair or not) towards individual members. Niceness expects you to curb any dispositions or objective standards you have in order to support the emotional insecurity of
Continue readingCain Train derailed
From the “In What Will Come As No Surprise to Anyone” files, GOP presidential primary contender, pizzamonger and inveterate skirt-chaser extraordinaire Herman Cain has left the building: Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain effectively ended his 2012 White House race on Saturday, saying “false and unproved” sexual accusations have made it
Continue readingAmericans turn on the Tea Party
A recent Pew Research Center survey indicates that Americans, or at least those who have an opinion on the matter, are turning against the Tea Party. A year ago, as the Republican Party was making sweeping gains in the midterm elections, 24 per cent of Americans said they agreed with
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: descending down the pot-holed road of recession towards the sink hole of depression
These remarks of Paul Krugman could easily apply to Canada, for it is essentially homeowners with their massively extended debt load who have bumped our debt to GDP ratio up to 203%, and we too require expansionary fiscal and monetary policies to support the Canadian economy. We won’t be getting
Continue readingA File with Teh See-Siss
I have a seemingly unanswerable question that’s been giving me brain aches, so I thought I’d throw it out there on this fine Saturday afternoon. Why would an ordinary, if imperfect, citizen have a file with CSIS? The rundown: A friend of mine — and no, I’m not using “friend”
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