PotashCorp CEO Bill Doyle waded into Saskatchewan’s election campaign on Friday with an op-ed in the province’s two largest newspapers. It was accompanied by a paid advertisement from PotashCorp in Saskatoon’s StarPhoenix. The company got some free advertising in Regina’s Leader-Post through Bruce Johnstone’s column, which repeated Doyle’s op-ed. The Saskatchewan Party is parroting the […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: OWS – Media Bias at its best.
Liberal viewer does his usual exemplary job of describing the media. Faux News never fails to deliver when it comes to making sure that the interests of the people are marginalized and put forth in the worst possible light. The OWS movement has brought new life into the economic debate in the US opening […]
BigCityLib Strikes Back: Rocco’s Next Campaign?
I hear he plans to make World Book for losing at least one election on every continent.h/t
Continue readingBuckdog: "No evidence has been offered to support assertions that Saskatchewan levies the world’s highest (Potash) royalties and taxes" Saskatoon Star Phoenix
“(PotashCorp CEO Bill) Doyle wrote, “Saskatchewan is still the highest tax jurisdiction in the potash world.” The Saskatchewan Party also made this statement in its platform document and in the provincial leaders’ debate.Unfortunately, repetition is no…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: American Idol
A nine-foot statue of former President Ronald Reagan was unveiled today at the Washington-area airport named after the former General Electric pitchman and star of such film classics as Bedtime for Bonzo. Just as with the other statues of the … Continue reading →
wmtc: urgent! new threat to toronto public library: make your voice heard
Read and sign the petition!From Our Public Library::* * * *The first order of business of Mayor Ford’s handpicked Toronto Library Board was to cut 100 librarians and other staff.Even though there is not a single children’s librarian in the entire s…
Continue readingHarper Government™ in pocket of NRA, gun manufacturers. Also, stupid on crime.
It’s getting shittier than ever to be a Canadian, and we are all hanging our heads and shaking them in shame. Because “free” trade (note the quotes) isn’t enough to sell our asses downriver, now Harpo & Co. have sold us out to the gun lobby. Yes, really. The powerful Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle used […]
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Quebec won’t pay for crime bill
What’s interesting here is that the Provinces, broadly put, pay for and run prosecutions (drug offiences are a partial exception). So if Quebec, say, simply fails to enforce Federal laws (as they did when Quebec stopped enforcing Canada’s then existin…
Continue readingBuckdog: How Much Will Harper’s ‘Omnibus Crime Bill’ Cost Saskatchewan? Brad Wall’s NOT Saying!
`So far, the most expensive election promise of the Saskatchewan Election campaign is the ongoing Billions in windfall profits that Brad Wall is allowing PotashCorp to rip off from the taxpayers of Saskatchewan. Another HUGE expenditure is looming for …
Continue readingAsbestos Motion before the House
Asbestos, it kills people. So while everyone is talking about the gun registry, The NDP’s motion calling for the end of mining and exporting asbestos will be voted on this evening.
We came close to a similar motion in 2009, or least we thought we we…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Apprentice #nlpoli
“We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganization; and what a wonderful method it can be for crea…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Pile of Carp – RBE’s plan to close schools
It shouldn’t take a genius to figure out that kids are better off when they are able to walk or bike to school, and don’t have to get onto school/city buses each day. Sadly, there are few geniuses at the Regina Board of Education. They want to take away more schools, in growing neighbourhoods, so […]
I Knew The Scrapping of The Long Gun Registry Was Never About Farmers and Hunters
The above image is a ruger mini-14 semi-automatic. Tell me, boys ‘n’ girls, does that look like something that would be required to shoot ducks and other game? I didn’t think so neither. Well, proud owners of those machines will no longer have to register them under the new Harpercon legislation, . . . → Read More: I Knew The Scrapping of The Long Gun Registry Was Never About Farmers and Hunters
Continue readingToo Much Geography: My Frustration with the NPA
I am, for the first time in my life, in the position of being a swing voter. I had been a politically committed individual before coming of age, so this experience is wholly new to me. In the last municipal election I didn’t live in any municipality, and thusly was
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Since ducks are now sporting body armour
Our government thinks it ought to level the playing field by ensuring that hunters have access to the appropriate weaponry. …under the Conservative bill [C-19] the Ruger Mini-14, the .50-calibre sniper rifle known as the Steyr-Mannlicher HS .50 — a sniper rifle that can pierce light armour from a distance of up to 1.5 km — and the L115A3 Long Range Sniper Rifle, which can accurately hit a target 2 kilometres away will no longer require registration certificates. My emphasis. Gee, you mean this isn’t just about law-abiding hunters and farmers? Who could have guessed? The article will also explain that the government’s plan to zap all the data will actually leave things in worse shape than before the long gun registry existed because older record-keeping on gun purchases was folded into the registry when it was created. I’m prepared to believe that part is an unintended consequence and is just the result of — dare I say it? — incompetence. All of this goes to reinforce two points. The first is that you should always, always, examine Conservative legislation carefully to find the hidden treats inside. And the second is that all this nonsense about how unnecessary it is…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: He Said What?
Poor Hamid Karzai. The old bugger has to run the assassins’ gauntlet until 2014 when he can step down and di di mau his sorry ass and his loot the hell out of Afghanistan. In the meantime he’ll need plenty of protection, as much as he…
Continue readingThings Are Good: Charge Your Phone with the Sun
We’ve seen DIY iPod solar chargers before and now an Ottawa-based company has produced a consumer one. The PowerTrip is a small battery with a USB jack and a solar panel on it.
Enter the PowerTrip, from Ottawa-based Ecosol. In a package about the size of a deck of cards, the PowerTrip houses a battery […]
Recreating Eden: Seven Million: How to Make the World a Better Place
The last few days the rapidly increasing numbers of humans have been getting a lot of press, probably well-merited. The New York Times had an interesting story yesterday about a campaign to link birth rates in the developed world with species extincti…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading – with an economic fairness theme.- John Burton highlights Saskatchewan’s ownership of its own potash resources – pointed out so frequently by Brad Wall in opposing BHP Billiton’s bid for PCS – as being exactly th…
Continue reading350 or bust: Now For The Real Scary Stuff
All Hallow’s Eve is over for this year and tomorrow, in many countries, is the Day of the Dead or All Souls’ Day. So today might be a good day to focus on what is really alarming: the Climate Zombies that hang around year-round in Washington an…
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