Stephen Harper has re-introduced controversial spying measures to control the conversation happening on the Internet.
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Canadians Being Spied On
Your Government is Spying On Your Downloads. http://t.co/2hkBFUe7K3 w/ @caparsons pic.twitter.com/OHOf95n64u — CANADALAND (@CNDLND) February 2, 2015 3. Or maybe the media has allowed government (#CSE) to define spying on its own terms- the least alarming terms possible. — Jesse Brown (@JesseBrown) February 2, 2015 4. #CSE says it doesn't
Continue readingLeft Over: Any Cardboard to Spare?
Affordable housing in Vancouver within reach: Michael Geller Michael Geller says innovative design and financing ideas are key to creating more affordable Vancouver homes By Margaret Gallagher, CBC News Posted: Feb 02, 2015 7:29 AM PT Last Updated: Feb 02, 2015 7:29 AM PT Yes, let’s crowd those poor
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: ONA Strike: Home Care critical to Ontario’s health care strategy – just tell that to the CCACs
About 3,000 professional staff at nine of the 14 Ontario Community Care Access Centres started walking a picket line Friday. Represented by the Ontario Nurses’ Association, it’s the latest labour disruption in a sector the government considers to be critical … Continue reading →
Continue readingIn This Corner: Stuff Happens, week 4: Musical MLA chairs; Apple has a very, very good year; Greece goes rogue.
Will the last MLA out of the Alberta legislature please turn out the lights? Resignation fever swept the Legislature on this week, as another six MLAs announced they were not going to run in the next election. Most notable was the resignation of Liberal leader Raj Sherman, who announced on
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Megamind Time Machine
We kicked off a Netflix addiction with “The Croods” [5/10] last night, and “Megamind” [8/10] this morning. At Christmas we replaced a tube TV with a more modern LED version that can get free broadcast channels and hook up to a laptop. Cutting the cable was made possible also with
Continue readingExcited Delirium: CRTC Superbowl Decision
I add some personal context to the CRTC’s decision about simultaneous substitution, the impact on the ad agency world in urban areas and how Harper will turn it all into political gain for his grim gaggle of Cons.
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Deep River faces Ontario’s plan for laboratory testing: pay more, get less
One of the last hospitals in Ontario to provide local outpatient medical laboratory testing is transferring the service to the private for-profit Lifelabs Medical Laboratory Services. The move will save the Deep River and District Hospital money, but cost the … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Tuesday; PDQ Bach
John Klein: Here’s what Toronto was like 30 years ago for my Grandma. Originally posted on Grandparents' Journal: Jan. 29, 1985 Only 28 degrees today, little sun & snow flurries all day making about 1″ by night. Called Faith & Peg & Kay to tell the last two of some
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: CSEC Back In The News
Here’s an interesting bit of the process the NSA and partners are going about tracking your online activities so they can link everything you do that isn’t encrypted and disassociated from your IP address and social profiles online, to you personally. LEVITATION has been watching you, most certainly. Every RT
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: The Prevention of Our Breathing and Catching Our Second Wind, by Sanyika Shakur
We Can’t Breathe without control of our destiny! We Can’t Breathe under neo-colonialism! We Can’t Breathe with capitalism’s hands around our throats! We Can’t Breathe under bourgeois democracy! We Can’t Breathe under genocidal violence! We Can’t Breathe under imperialism! The Can’t Breathe in overcrowded u.s. prisons! We Can’t Breathe under
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: DDM Calling For Mistrial! #RoboCon
Hapless Dean Del Mastro, the former Prime Ministerial Parliamentary Secretary is supposed to soon find out how long he’ll spend in jail away from his wife and baby child. What's the difference between $21K and $20K? No kids, not $1000, it is a mistrial! #DelMastro #DDM pic.twitter.com/YPtKkOSmCd — Far Side
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Hospital Cuts: Barrett could be hero or goat depending on the future of Chesley’s Restorative Care Unit
Michael Barrett has a problem. The CEO of the South West Local Health Integration Network (SW LHIN) now has the ball in his court as local support has been building to save the restorative care unit at the Chesley Hospital, … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Why Is Canada Selling LAVs to Saudi Arabia?
This shocking news story came up about a year ago, but it’s back in the news because oil crashed, and Alberta tarsand hillbillies freaked out about Saudi Arabia (finally). The Light Armored Vehicles will be used against civilians protesting injustice in a theocratic, and authoritarian country.
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Another Rate Cut? The Cons Are That Desperate.
Stephen Harper may yet again take an unprecedented move and manipulate monetary policy again in a desperate attempt to jump-start the economy prior to the 2015 election. The great ‘economist leader’ is proving to be a failure.
Continue readingIn This Corner: Stuff Happens, Week 3: A Mountie mourned; a politician quits; a football deflates.
Following the utterly pointless shootings of two RCMP officers in St. Albert, the question was asked: why was Shawn Rehn, the killer, walking free? It’s a good question. Rehn was a longtime scumbag, having served prison time for various misdeeds. He should have served more time, probably, but didn’t. He
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Danielle Smith to former Wildrose supporters: I didn’t leave you, you left me!
Danielle Smith to Wildrose Party members: I didn’t leave you! It was you that left me! Ever since the former Opposition leader shocked Alberta and significant parts of the rest of the country on Dec. 17 by leading a parade of Wildrose Party MLAs over to the Progressive Conservative benches,
Continue readingAlberta Diary: How the mighty have fallen: former finance minister Doug Horner pulls the plug on provincial politics
Doug Horner, who was clearly the best qualified of the three frontrunners in the 2011 race for the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party, pulled the plug on provincial politics yesterday. Read more on AlbertaPolitics.ca.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Down Bayview
John Klein: Here’s what was happening in Toronto 30 years ago today. Originally posted on Grandparents' Journal: Jan. 22, 1985 Up at 22 degrees this a.m. & up a bit further later, compacting the snow & making frightful slush on the roads. Called Faith & Peg, then went down Bayview.
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