It’s about that time of year when the folks at The Salvation Army start ringing bells in front of their red kettles, soliciting donations. If you happen to see a Salvation Army kettle this holiday season, here’s a few reasons you should probably give your money to a more worthwhile
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Writings of J. Todd Ring: Money, savings and interest: The real deal – protecting yourself and your family from the coming collapse
Yes, it is the end of the world as we know it – meaning, we are about to witness the final liquidation of the middle class across Europe and North America, the final solution to what the business elite call “the pampered Western workers” – along with the continued and
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #IdleNoMore Prayer Rally in Regina
A bitterly cold -16 Celsius temperature didn’t deter over 100 people from turning out to voice their concerns about the Conservatives’ omnibus bill C-45 passed in haste last week. The people also were there to support the First Nations leaders who attempted to confront the MPs in the House, and
Continue readingValerie Burns: Prog Blog Test Post
Welcome progressivebloggers.ca readers! Scott Tribe informs me I am now part of the team, and I post this to test the rss feed. Let’s see if it works! Also, has anyone else notice that WordPress HATES Internet Explorer?
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: When Is A Private Sale Public?
Conservatives tell us that state ownership of industry is bad… if it’s Canadian state ownership. Their actions tell a different story. “Canada is just barely holding the reins“. S.E. writes, “You probably don’t need me to tell you that selling a controlling stake in this country’s largest energy resource to
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Week of Hell #RoboCon
The Conservatives have had a (deservedly) rough week, and it’s about to get more rough next week. The Council of Canadians’ court challenge is Monday. The Prime Minister closed out the final news cycle hour this week by actually taking questions from the press, (which has hardly ever happened before).
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: F-35 Surprising comments from MPs in 2011
The following are rough notes from a TV clip between Liberal Marc Garneau and Conservative Laurie Hawn regarding the now newly cancelled F-35 project due to skyrocketing costs and American pullback from the plane also. – Hawn: “sweet spot of delivery” “confident” “next 40 years” “the Liberals…deliberately misleading the public”
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Tory MPP Hillier supports cuts to hospital in his own constituency
Tory MPP Randy Hillier is the Rob Ford of rural Ontario. He often makes headlines for all the wrong reasons. His hatred of unions seems to be trumping common sense these days. Hillier recently wrote an editorial in the local … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: SaskPower: At Least 13 Years Out of Touch
I’m sorry Canada, and the world. I’ve tried to convince my province’s public utility that there are huge benefits from dialing down the reliance on coal burned electricity, but they won’t listen. They haven’t even removed or updated a shockingly out-dated “Solar” page on their website that lists information that
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Australian Political Hypocrisy Mirrors Ours
Australian politics is like Canada looking into a mirror. Here’s the current Prime Minister describing the deception of an earlier government she opposed. “For far too long public debate in Australia has failed to nourish or inspire us. For far too long it has been limited to the day-to-day monitoring
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The Spirit of Christmas
@saskboy I think the news story is the PERFECT example of why helping the homeless is generally a waste of good will and effort.— Adrian MacNair (@unambig) December 03, 2012 Using Adrian’s generalization logic, since he’s a climate change denier every time people try to help him learn with evidence,
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Dad 1941-1971
My dad, Jake, has been gone 41 years today. Being only two when he was killed, I don’t remember him. Not at all. This picture was probably one of the last ones ever taken of the two of us – and I only saw it for the first time this
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Oink! Oink!
Now, back when the federal Liberal party controlled the Senate, if Liberals were doing this, dirty rotten Tories would’ve said they were nothing more than pigs at the trough. But now that the Red Chamber is dominated by Conservatives, I guess it’s all okay. Oh, and last month it was
Continue readingIn This Corner: Tories have bungled tobacco file, but it’s no scandal.
The Edmonton Journal’s main headline today, “Speaker clears Redford” takes its place on the list least surprising headlines ever, right up there with “Winter will be cold” and “City to raise taxes”. There was never any doubt that Speaker Gene Zwozdesky would find some way to proclaim that Premier Alison Redford in no way misled […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Kinsella in 2011 guessed #RoboCon
I don’t normally link to Sun, or Kinsella, but it’s worth taking a look this time, I promise.
While researching the cut brake lines that Elections Canada never found a culprit for, I stumbled across Kinsella’s 2011 correct prediction …
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: This is Elections Canada
A Conservative on Twitter months ago claimed to have made phone calls on behalf of Elections Canada. @MrAnthonyDewar That was me and 1,000s of others hired by EC to update voter lists-we manned a phone bank and DID phone voters— Marie Ellis (@writestuffpr) March 28, 2012 TJD @MrTonyDew: @writestuffpr I remember a certain tweeter saying […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: CBC vs. Postmedia vs. Elections Canada #RoboCon
There’ve been several Canadian media organizations investigating the RoboCon election fraud scandal linked to the Conservative Party. In February, Postmedia broke the story by tying the many localized reports of misleading phonecalls together by unleashing details of the mysterious Pierre Poutine alias. At that time they also reported there were emails from Elections Canada staff […]
Pressing Politics: From Legal Certainty to Engineering Certainty: Nalcor Responds to Water Management Concerns… Again
The anonymous dark knight among the Muskrat Falls critics, JM, released another report recently detailing his issues surrounding the water management issue. The issue was initially raised by the 2041 group as a legal issue. I’ve noted numerous ti…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Rex and Terry and CBC
My guess is that Rex Murphy and Terry Milewski don’t agree very often, but they were both right about the [il]legitimacy of the Conservative Harper Government, nine months ago. Rex only slips in thinking Elections Canada had a “steely gaze”. Oops. Lots of oopses. Can we now see why Stephen Harper and Dean Del Mastro […]
LisaKirbie.com: J.Crew does something amazing
I’m a big J.Crew fan – many people on my Christmas list are very, very lucky – but usually for its clothes, not for any particular corporate policy or decision. Until today. In what may be an Internet first ever, J.Crew profiled a same-sex couple on the “Wedding” section on its website. You can read […]