He writes, of what happened up in High River , where RCMP officers took guns from homes abandoned after this summer’s floods in Alberta: Nearly a half hour into his grilling by residents, Shardlow was detailing how many hundreds of guns had been forcibly removed from homes and how many
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Refuting Lorne Gunter On AGW
Not really something worth doing, because its only The Sun, but since it won’t take very long… In his commentary on the much ballyhooed David Rose story in the weekend Daily Mail (UK), Gunter writes: One problem with determining whether the Earth is warming is that it’s hard to measure. The Met
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Time to call out the media for uncritically reprinting ‘Fraser Facts’
Sun News Network columnist Lorne Gunter, bottom centre, listens as a Fraser Institute “senior fellow” tells a wonderful story about the benefits of private health insurance. Right wing bloviators may not be exactly as … oh, never mind! Below: The real Mr. Gunter. Claims by the market-fundamentalist Fraser Institute widely
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Plenty of commentators are using the Labour Day weekend to discuss the place of workers in Canadian society. Sid Ryan notes that depressed wages are bad news for Canada’s economy generally. And Morna Ballantyne and Steven Staples point out the need for unions
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Some Alberta seniors will soon be eating better meals – they can thank the union for them
AUPE’s powerful viral video on the unappetizing 21-day menu. Below: Former Alberta Health Services CEO Stephen Duckett, Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne. One of the least successful experiments of the short, unhappy reign of Stephen Duckett as CEO of Alberta Health Services was the so-called 21-day menu, the unpalatable tinfoil-
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Sunday reading. – It’s a few months old, but the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy’s comparison of U.S. states with a zero personal income tax to those with the highest tax levels looks like one of the most clear refutations yet of the idea that
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Fool Me Once, Shame On You; Fool Me Twice, And I Must be Lorne Gunter
The latest tranche of census information, like the material released back in February, is from the still mandatory short form. It is the long form that was compromised by the government’s decision. Lorne Gunter, who also covers the global warming controversy and would, you would think, possess at least a single smidgen of statistical
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