The Ontario PCs have staked out a far-right position on labour with the release Wednesday of their white paper “Paths to Prosperity: Flexible Labour Markets.” For Ontario’s heavily organized health care sector, this is a ‘sit up and pay attention moment,’ … Continue reading →
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Friends in High Places
Medals for everyone! It’s good that she’s so proud of her public service that brought her the public recognition, as to be so shy as to decline to speak about it all. Neither Byrne nor the Conservative party media office responded to requests for comment. It is unclear what Byrne
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Hospital CEO resigns after board rejects “improvement” plan
Staff of the Perth and Smiths Fall District Hospital were told today CEO Todd Stepaniuk has resigned. Stepaniuk, who helmed the organization for 12 years, appears to have lost a battle with his board over the hospital’s performance improvement plan. Staff … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Accountability in Conservative Government
Do you know what I love about Stephen Harper? He wants [wanted?] Canadians to hold politicians accountable. Let’s get right on that please, and stand up for Canada. “Bullying” and “frequent sexual harassment” created “toxic” work environment under Brazeau: court documents allege aptn.ca/pages/news/201…— Emilie Novaczek (@envczk) June 27, 2012 Brazeau
Continue readingLeft Over: Enbridge Pipeline Spoof is “Revised”
Dan Murphy is a cartoonist for the Province newspaper,and here in BC, it is common practice to castigate the corporate agenda of rightwing whackjobs, sometimes in the media, whatever the East may think of the West’s support of the CRAPs.. Now that ability to laugh at, and thus negate the
Continue readinggritchik: Unsurprising that Brazeau used sexist insult to attack female reporter
See for yourself, here. What is surprising that that PMSH appointed this knuckle dragging, self absorbed narcissist to the Senate in the first place. The story of his childish bullying of a reporter doing her job is here.
Continue readinggritchik: Unsurprising that Brazeau used sexist insult to attack female reporter
See for yourself, here. What is surprising that that PMSH appointed this knuckle dragging, self absorbed narcissist to the Senate in the first place. The story of his childish bullying of a reporter doing her job is here.
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: On Vacation
Posting will be light until July 2, as Sixth Estate is on vacation. Tweet
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Solar Tour
On the weekend I had a fantastic tour of the Regina area, along with my parents, seeing the sights highlighted by conversions to solar energy. Solar PV, and active and passive solar heating were demonstrated in locations adjacent to the General Hospital, Shannon Road in south Regina (part of where
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Technology: Will docs battle Watson for your diagnosis?
Healthcare has always experienced a love-hate relationship with technology. New technologies have certainly both contributed to costs and reduced costs. There has been considerable literature on how expensive new technologies become unnecessarily overused, and as the recent showdown with Ontario … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Parasites
Parasites are nasty things that take the lifeblood of other creatures, and escape to reproduce with it, leaving damage and disease in their wake. There are wood ticks and deer ticks. How do they differ from Spillopec (Sinopec) and Pains Midstream Oil [Spill], and other Ethical Oil companies? The oil
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Timeline and Timeliness
CBC offers a timeline of Del Mastro’s apparent overspending on his campaign. I think the Prime Minister may regret defending Del Mastro. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in the House of Commons on June 20, 2012, defended Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro against opposition questions June 13 over his election spending.
Continue readingLeft Over: Bob Paulson, Emperor Steve’s New Minion
Top cop concerned with Mounties airing problems in public RCMP Commissioner says bill will help end ‘outrageous’ behaviour “1984, knocking at your door…” What is it about the CRAPs that their supporters like? Must be the fact that they are impressive sweepers…of bad news, directly under the rug, never to
Continue readingCritical Brain Candy: The most educated country in the world
Interesting list of the Top 10 educated countries in the world. I was surprised to see Canada at #1 with 50% of the population having post-secondary education. I’m sure we’ll now see the conservatives gut funding for post-secondary.
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Airport Screeners Unfairly Target Gay Passenger
An inspection of staff behaviour at London’s Gatwick airport has uncovered an incident where a gay passenger was searched under suspicion of pedophilia ”because he had a camera and a boyfriend.” The incident was just one of the 71 percent of searches deemed to have been conducted inappropriately. The chief inspector of Borders and
Continue readinggritchik: It’s not abuse, it’s politics
For good or for bad, politics is a rough and tumble world. It’s like extreme sports for those of us adrenalin junkies who have an aversion to physical pain. Last week saw Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath whining that she was abused and bullied by the Grits, and that her
Continue readinggritchik: It’s not abuse, it’s politics
For good or for bad, politics is a rough and tumble world. It’s like extreme sports for those of us adrenalin junkies who have an aversion to physical pain. Last week saw Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath whining that she was abused and bullied by the Grits, and that her
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Broadcast Standards Council tosses latest Sun News Network vulgarity back to CRTC
Sun News Network commentator Ezra Levant assails your blogger for his many ideological imperfections. Great picture! …of me. The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has asked the federal broadcast regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, to investigate complaints about a June 13 broadcast by Sun News Network commentator Ezra Levant.
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People (in a nutshell)
Dale Carnegie’s book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People”, was first published in 1936. The key advice, in a nutshell is below. After reading the book, I can say most of it seems very relevant in 2012. However I think people are less likely to respond as positively to
Continue readingIn This Corner: On push mowers and five-pin bowling.
My sons bought me a push mower for Father’s Day this year. Now, some of you dads and moms might roll your eyes at that news. Isn’t getting a push mower for Father’s Day like buying your mom a vacuum cleaner for Mother’s Day? Well, yes and no. But mostly
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