The Wood Mountain Folk Festival is today, Saturday Aug. 24, 2013, at the Mergel Ranch. On Friday I drove down from Regina in my $50 rental car (for 3 days, from Enterprise). It’s getting 5.7L/100km highway driving in ECO mode. 2013 Elantra, Hyundai. I successfully passed a semi along the
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Friday Night Hardware Hacking
Last night I fixed a Vista laptop (It wouldn’t finish booting into Windows normally because I’d installed another hard drive, and ran ClamAV which possibly changed a file it was depending on after I removed the other hard drive. I ran startup repair, and then the system restore option, and
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Drug “paraphernalia,” a lost study revived, and temporary inspectors — short takes on recent events
Kudos to Camille Quenneville, CEO of the Canadian Mental Health Association, for pointing out governments looking to contain costs and provide better service should address mental health issues within their own workforce. Writing in the Ottawa Citizen last week, Quenneville points out … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: The Bellerephon Problem
After murdering his brother for eating all the Cheetos, Bellerephon was exiled from Corinth. (A city famed for its Elvis impersonators and Class 5 Full-Roaming Vapor Ghosts.) Then his luck turned for the worse. Avoiding the mechanized Probe-a-trons sent by … Continue reading →
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Mic Mac Mall employs “girls are dumb” ad campaign
Seriously, it is 2013 and someone at an ad agency thought it was a great idea to develop this ad campaign. And then the mall execs agreed. I’m not sure how so many people could be so stupid. The ads were insulting, offensive and sexist. They were also unimaginative (it
Continue readingExcited Delirium: The Fraser Institute Jumps the Shark
The Fraser Institute released The Cost of Raising Children report today. I’m not going to link to it because I don’t want to promote it, nor do I want anyone to waste their time thinking they should read it. And don’t bother reading the news stories about it. Why? I’m
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Police call on government to step up mental health support
As Kingston’s Providence Care prepares to shed nearly a fifth of its workforce and close beds at the former Kingston Psychiatric Hospital, there have been a number of media stories this week providing clear evidence capacity for mental health services … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Photography As Art
Well, when isn’t photography art? Maybe quite often, but there’s no disputing the photos of Naomi Harris are art. She seems to take a lot of people photos, while I prefer landscapes and architecture as they are more readily available in rural Saskatchewan. “I just decided to do this trip
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Leaders Using Drugs
There was a time in Canadian history when it was possible to elect a politician who wasn’t an alcohol drinker (Gardiner, for example). Now it may still be possible to elect someone who doesn’t drink coffee. .@RealMattHopkins @margaretresin How DARE the Liberal leader NOT abuse a widely accepted drug! 😉
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Centric claims physiotherapy funding decision will have little impact on its private clinics
It came as no surprise that the private designated OHIP physiotherapy clinics failed in their legal bid to use a judicial review to slow down plans to transfer their publicly funded patients to the Community Care Access Centres. While the government … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ISS Flying South West of Regina
From Victoria Park almost a week ago. From tonight:
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Tile for Lost Items
I was thinking of getting a BLE sticker for my bike to be able to track it remotely if it was stolen, but Tile might work much better. It’ll create a lost&found spy network to make theft of property much more challenging for idiots who still try stealing tracking devices
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: When poverty is the disease, money is the most effective prescription
Dr. Gary Bloch’s patients suffer from a health condition to which many doctors believe there is no prescription – money. Bloch became obsessed with this question, and at one time found he could do just that – filling out forms … Continue reading →
Continue readingCalgary Grit: Royal Baby
In case you were worried the Trudeaus just weren’t photogenic enough already… Justin Trudeau announces his wife, Sophie Grégoire, is pregnant with couple’s third child
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: New CMA president-elect looks to Scotland as model of improvement
Kingston’s Dr. Chris Simpson has been acclaimed president-elect of the Canadian Medical Association. His term as President begins August 2014. Simpson is professor of medicine and chief of cardiology at Queen’s University as well as medical director of the Cardiac … Continue reading →
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: SBGHC — Rosebush sets objective to balance budget without cuts to staff or services
If there has been one good news story this summer it’s this: CEO Paul Rosebush sent a memo to all physicians and staff at his South Bruce Grey Health Centre in July telling them that the hospital’s fiscal shortfall for … Continue reading →
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Tainted — Play a timely intervention on the paid plasma issue
A generation has passed since more than 30,000 Canadians became infected with HIV and hepatitis C through the blood system. According to the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Justice Horace Krever’s 1997 report on the tragedy is considered to be one … Continue reading →
Continue readingLeft Over: Of Snake Oil and Cellphones…..
Canadians deserve cheaper mobile rates, James Moore says Industry minister pushing back as public campaign against the big three telecom firms heats up CBC News Posted: Aug 19, 2013 3:15 PM ET Last Updated: Aug 20, 2013 9:27 AM ET Without regulated rate structures, Verizon, just like all the other
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Heavy-handed Heather hypes Torstar.
Having usually enjoyed Heather Mallick’s writing in the Toronto Star, there was some consternation the other day when reading her piece extolling Torstar’s electronic output. While you never blame the writer for the headline, “Beyond the paywall lies a beautiful vista” should have been warning of the confusing pap to
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Injunction may help CCACs find more time to prepare for physiotherapy transfers
In some ways the injunction filed by the Designated Physiotherapy Clinics Association of Ontario may have been a blessing in disguise. As of August 1st OHIP funding for these private clinics was to cease, their clients transferred to the Community Care … Continue reading →
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