Sixth Estate pointed this out long ago, but CBC is starting to realize the pattern where Elections Canada is breaking the law, and denying the public (and media) access to candidates’ election files. Eve Adams’ files are not right. Elections Canada must explain. Penashue records removed from election spending file
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OPSEU Diablogue: Among OECD, Only Mexico has fewer per capita hospital beds than Ontario
There are some that would like to portray labour and many of our community partners as being reactionary towards the shift of services from hospital to the community. The reality is labour actually represents substantial numbers of members in the … Continue reading →
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Riot Fest announces the Replacements!
What a killer lineup! Can’t make the Toronto show, so I bought a couple of tickets to Riot Fest’s Chicago gig. The Replacements (first show in more than two decades!), Violent Femmes, Public Enemy, Against Me!, Bad Religion, Rancid, Blondie, and so many more. Just. Wow.
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Cops raid crack video “Ground Zero”
Toronto police chief is holding a media avail at noon today. Read more here.
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Nursing Home Inspectors: An old promise or a new one?
What is the value of a promise? In some cases we have chastised government over the lack promises kept, such as the 10-year mental health strategy that never materialized. Or the lack of community-based resources that were supposed to replace … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Turkey Arrests CBC Journalist Sasa Petricic
Saša Petricic has been arrested in the midst of covering the Occupy Gezi protest in Istanbul. This is an outrage which the Turkish government will not be able to defend themselves from. .@evakatrina @DFAIT_MAECI Turkey must #FreeSasa! @sasapetricic— Saskboy K. (@saskboy) June 12, 2013 Short hours before his arrest, this
Continue readingCalgary Grit: Open Mic With Stephen Harper
A two year old video showing Stephen Harper doing fairly solid Diefenbaker, Clark, Mulroney, and Manning impressions surfaces. Not a bad time for a distraction, eh?
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: Greenwald on CNBC
Strong congressional oversight means asking direct questions & getting straight answers. 1.usa.gov/1a0EIY3— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) June 11, 2013 Encrypt your shit: Spooky reading after #Snowden: Julian #Assange's call to take up arms against the surveillance state | Cypherpunks cryptome.org/2012/12/assang…— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 11, 2013 The world is not sliding, but
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: “Leadership” “Stealing”
Conservatives have created a new idea. It’s Leadership Stealing. You can Steal, like a Leader. “How can the Liberals actually, with a straight face, pretend to stand up for the middle class, when Liberal senators are stealing money from taxpayers?” – CPC Minister Moore “Conservatives praise Duffy’s ‘leadership’ in Senate
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: More Senate talk on Sun News
I’m no fan of Mac Harb’s but his residency issue is quite different from what Tory senators Duffy, Wallin and Brazeau are currently dealing with. Read what Harb has to say, in his own words. But the larger issue is the growing list of Harper’s parliamentarians who are in some
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: NSA Watching the Innocent
Technology and civil liberty experts knew PRISM was a very real possibility. I knew, and wrote about it last August. The National Security Agency (NSA) (star bad guy org. in the Will Smith movie Enemy of the State) has been collecting domestic Americans’ phone and Internet records since at least
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Little Super Men
Or, Twin Terrors? I say that with love, of course. The little boys in this clip are my nephews and the very patient woman, my baby sister. The twins, who were born incredibly premature, are actually delightful creatures, despite what three minutes of live television captured.
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Signs the singularity is already here
I knew it! Though this still isn’t as terrifying as a supra-intelligent self-aware Internet only talking to one web developer via text on his web-enabled fridge. (And using Comic Sans to boot.) Check out The Fridgularity here. We can only … Continue reading →
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Will 100 new nursing home inspectors represent a tipping point?
Well that didn’t take long. Last week Health Minister Deb Matthews said she had asked officials to come forward with options on how to improve inspections in the province’s nursing homes. This was the opening we had been looking for … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: Snowden to Greenwald to Guardian
The Verizon phone taps, to Yahoo, Google, Skype, and more all owned by the US Government. These were things suspected by many (thanks to WikiLeaks), and now confirmed by the intentional whistle-blowing leak from the NSA. The man who told on his criminally misbehaving government? A 29 year old who
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Dark Sky Preserve at Wood Mountain
I found a new way to appreciate my home town through the eyes of astronomers this weekend. Also, I used the astronomers’ telescopes, which is a great way to look from their perspective on the universe. Wood Mountain is the gateway to the East Block of the Grasslands National Park
Continue readingExcited Delirium: When Will the CPC Wake Up?
When will Conservatives wake up and get rid of their greatest liability: Stephen Harper?
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Home care – it’s critical we get it right this time
Ontario’s Community Care Access Centres could have been very different had events unfolded differently in the early 1990s. At the beginning of that decade home care was considered to have more of a leg in social services than health care. … Continue reading →
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Stephen’s even: Brent Rathgeber’s out; Peter Goldring’s back, all’s right with the world
Independent MP Brent Rathgeber takes aim at Tory opacity. Now that he’s incurred the PM’s wrath, though, it’s not so likely they’ll let him dress up as a sailor in a real Canadian Navy uniform. Below: Mr. Rathgeber tries out another branch of service, Restored Tory Peter Goldring and Alberta
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Rathgerber Out of the Strong, Stable, National, Majority, Conservative Government
Who could forget Harper’s “strong, stable” majority comment during his victory speech in 2011 after his party swept to surprise power on a wave of election fraud supporting his party? Two years later, the Cons have lost disgraced Minister Penashue to a campaign overspending (and illegal contribution) crime for which
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