It’s the last meeting of the provincial Premiers before the 10-year 2004 health accord expires. With the expiry of that accord, so too goes any concerted effort to implement a national strategy to fix health care. July 24-25 the Premiers will get … Continue reading →
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PMO Organized Anti-Trudeau Protest
The Prime Minister’s Office is a partisan waste of taxpayer money. $10M a year goes there to die. Huffington Post uncovered the PMO coordination of the silly protest aimed at Justin Trudeau [link may autoplay annoying audio, sorry] announcing he wanted greater transparency from the government. Ha, why would the
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Dave from Etobicoke
This made me laugh. Even more because of this. And this.
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: The PMO needs some adult supervision
The Tories have a lot of problems these days. From Harper’s Chief of Staff writing an ill-advised (and now subject to an ongoing RCMP investigation) $90K cheque to a senator who was caught double-dipping to Elections Canada disasters to plummeting political support. So, what does the Conservative Party brain trust
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The Rising of a "Supermoon"
Reblogged from The Amazing Sky: Here is the much hyped Supermoon of 2013 rising into a twilight sky on the wet Alberta prairies. A clear night for a change, with no storms about. Though one rolled through earlier today. We don’t need any more rain! Thankfully I am high and dry
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Spending a Billion #cdnpoli
Many homes and lives were recently destroyed in Alberta last week. Warnings about where, and how to build homes were not heeded. A former Alberta MLA who headed up a flood mitigation task force after the 2005 floods says new development should not have been allowed to spring up in
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Towards a new health accord: Make a video, share your Medicare story
The Council of Canadians is asking you to share your experiences with the Medicare system by making a video and uploading it to their YouTube channel. It doesn’t have to be polished – just sincere. The Council is not just … Continue reading →
Continue readingLeft Over: One Dime Short and a Day Late…BC Ferries Sucks
BC Ferries refuses woman 10 cents short on ferry fare Company spokesperson says the rules are the rules CBC News Posted: Jun 24, 2013 8:46 AM PT Last Updated: Jun 24, 2013 8:45 AM PT Was there no one in the line – up to give/loan this woman
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: The Alberta Energy Board: What the PC Government learned and failed to learn from Machiavelli
On the same day that the Health Minister unceremoniously fired the Alberta Health Services board for refusing to revoke $3.2 million in bonuses, the Energy Minister announced the appointment of the Alberta Energy Board. Hmmm. I wonder whether in a year or two this newly minted board will find themselves
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Committing Sociology or Climatology
The Prime Minister infamously implored people to not “commit sociology” when Chechen-American thugs blew people up in Boston. The PM’s point was that he didn’t want people analysing the root causes of terrorism, out of supposed respect for the distant victims. With another deadly tragedy underway in Alberta, there are
Continue readingIn This Corner: Trudeau’s the rubber, Harper the glue.
“I’m rubber, you’re glue. Your words bounce off me and stick to you.” That juvenile little axiom popped into my head today as I contemplated the amazing Rubber Man, Justin Trudeau, and the clumsy attempts by Stephen Harper — the Darth Vader of Canadian politics — to ruin him. Harper
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Photography Is Not a Crime
The title was the shocking headline of this op-ed by PEN. “Uh, no kidding,” is the correct response. What’s disappointing is your image is taken everywhere by the state and businesses, but citizens are freaking out if other citizens or journalists have their images too? Free societies cannot allow their
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Drivers From Hill: MPs Shouldn’t Drive
MPs should quickly pass legislation to encourage the widespread adoption of self-driving cars, because an increasing number of MPs can not drive themselves properly. They are Drivers From Hill. “Conservative minister Maxime Bernier was arrested Sunday in the county [sic], while driving the vehicle of his wife without holding a
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Photographing Old Saskatchewan
Churches in Saskatchewan are closing down, and being abandoned at an increasing rate it seems. Active churches in my hometown have dwindled from four during my childhood, to maybe one or two now. There’s an effort underway to document these buildings and the relics inside, before they are all vandalized
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Remembering Lukin Robinson
I attended a lovely memorial service this week for Hugh Lukin Robinson, long-time labour economist and progressive activist in Ontario who passed away a few months ago at the ripe old age of 96. The memorial service was organized by his family (including his son Michael) at the Park-Hyatt Hotel,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Penis, Man, and Vagina Argue on UK Street
Here’s a story you don’t hear every day. That’s the fun of costumes, and prudery. A man threw a dick head onto the ground, and the vagina tried to calm the situation down. A hard street performance to pull off. (Photo care of central somerset gazette) That man, and that
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Duffy’s Crime Uses RCMP Time #cdnpoli
It’s unfortunate that it’s taken over 2 years for the RCMP to dig into Conservative election records. We desperately need some authority to enforce election laws, because not paying a bill to make it seem as if a spending limit isn’t exceeded, is two kinds of crime. CPC MP's defence
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Species Worth Saving
The Prairie Dog Blog linked to an excellent article in The Stranger last year. It lays out humanity’s future, based on the status quo. [W]hether you can pin it precisely on global warming or not, the ocean of wilting grain that fills the middle of our country after this hottest
Continue readingTrashy's World: The Sopranos – final edit
I thought it was worth re-posting this entry from 6 years ago… Gonna miss that big lug. ===================================================================================================================== I don’t often blog about TV shows. To me, it is a bit of a waste of time editorializing about fiction – especially fiction presented on this medium. But I don’t mind
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Chemical Agents Of The State
Canadians first somewhat accepted RCMP officers dousing peaceful protesters (and the media) with pepper spray, back in the 90s, during the OPEC summit in B.C. It’s regressed to the point where Officer Bubble cries about the possibility of getting soap in his eyes, while his even less scrupulous brothers in
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