… or not seriously, because I can guarantee things will get pretty serious on Monday. Don’t ask me why, but I just get this sneaky feeling… In the meantime, The Peak’s Matt McLean, the hardest working guy in radio… oh, wait, I’m being told the ‘hard-liest’ guy working in radio…
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Alberta Diary: Alberta’s health care queue-jumping inquiry finds itself at a crucial fork in the road
Is Alberta’s queue-jumping inquiry a real inquiry, or a kabuki play, as above? We’ll know soon. Below: Alberta NDP leader Brian Mason on the steps of the Legislature … with a reference to Alberta Liberal Leader Raj Sherman in the background. With the revelation earlier this week of systematic queue
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: I’m Drilled On Mars
I’m excited to learn that my name is selected as a site on Mars. I am unable to easily find which John Klein it’s really named after, but I’ll take the collateral naming honour.
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: What a load of crap
I know, and like, Stephen Maher. He is a solid reporter who refuses to give up when he’s found a story that needs to be told. This government – the Harper government – isn’t happy with him. And this is how they react. They have reached a new low.
Continue readingToo Much Geography: Marc Garneau: “This isn’t working”
I received a message* from Marc Garneau yesterday about his proposals to reform the party and the democratic processes thereof. It was headed “This isn’t working”, which I thought was a somewhat poor choice of words, because without context it seemed like he was referring to his leadership campaign. Now,
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Frail, often elderly, and with nowhere to go
Nobody believes a hospital ward is a long-term solution for patients who have completed their acute care treatment but due to their medical frailty are unable to go home without support. The question is, where are the appropriate resources for … Continue reading →
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Underwhelmed – First initiatives around seniors strategy more politics than transformation
Yesterday Health Minister Deb Matthews announced the first specific initiatives following the release of Dr. Samir Sinha’s summary of recommendations for Ontario’s Senior Strategy. You may have missed the headlines largely because it mostly attracted a big shrug, aside from … Continue reading →
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: The Harper Government: Losers
As in, they lose the personal information of Canadians over and over again. As one of this country’s many student loan borrowers, now they may have lost mine. I’ll keep you posted.
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Sudbury and North Bay: Layoff a professional, hire a professional
Cuts to nursing positions in Southern Ontario do apparently have a silver lining. Sudbury’s Health Sciences North says hard times for health care workers in the south are solving some of that hospital’s recruitment problems in the north. Whereas the … Continue reading →
Continue readingbastard.logic: Is there a Doctor in the house?
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Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Required reading: Monbiot on the failure of NeoLiberalism
You’ve got to love George Monbiot, the UK author, journalist and activist. His engaging BLOG is high on our list of regular must-reads. This is how George describes his role: “Here are some of the things I try to fight: undemocratic … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Another Poutine Style Recording in #RoboCon
Elections Canada may be allowing the Conservative Party to set the glacial pace of the criminal investigation across Canada into illegal election robocalls that misdirected and harassed electors. May be? Who are we kidding. It’s well past 600 days since the crime that calls into question the right of the
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Psychiatric Hospitals: The food is terrible… and such small portions
The nurse thought it was a mistake. A large patient at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences was given a plate with six pieces of ravioli on it as that evening’s dinner. The nurse on the unit thought it … Continue reading →
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Men Aquitted For Ordering Gay Drink
Two Cameroon men who were sentenced to five years in prison for “looking gay” after ordering Bailey’s Irish Cream have been acquitted of the charges by an appeals court. The two had already passed a year of their sentence before the acquittal. Homosexuality is illegal in Cameroon, and is subject to harsh penalties.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: 2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 96,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about
Continue readingValerie Burns: OLPLDR
If today is LEM day, can I finally expect to not be voicedropped by six candidates a day? I mean, the movie voiceover guy is nice and everything, but I have a life, you know.
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Federal government compromises the safety of more than a half million Canadians
I guess I’ll call and find out if I’m one of them. Stay tuned. Thanks for nothing, Harper.
Continue readingPoliTeching: Hard Drive with Student Loan borrowers Personal Info Went Missing
The federal government has called in the RCMP to investigate what could be one of the largest privacy lapses in Canadian history, after losing a non-encrypted external hard drive containing the personal information of 583,000 Canada Student Loan borrowers. The lost hard drive contained the personal information — including names,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #IdleNoMore University of Regina Round Dance
Cadmus Delorme started off the speaking without a mic (and was audible!). Here he is with some amplification. Let’s amplify his message over the Internet, also. The noon hour finished up this way: It’s my third Round Dance of Idle No More. Here’s the second, on Albert St. Regina kicked
Continue readingValerie Burns: Can David Bertschi Please Stay Positive?
Running for leader when you have no chance to win is one thing, but attacking Trudeau’s family is another. For a campaign “of ideas,” Bertchi certainly has a lot of mud to sling. From his comments about how he “wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth, LIKE SOME
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