The province of Nova Scotia has refused to pay for a trans man’s hysterectomy, leaving him with a surprise $3,400 bill. After experiencing some abdominal pain, Jessiah MacDonald was told that his uterus had several abnormal polyps and was recommended by a gynecologist that it be removed for preventative measures.
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Computer Science
Having a background in computers helps someone understand the RoboCon details much faster. The calls were made in large part through computer technology. When the Elections Act was created, it wasn’t possible to do robocalling, and the potential for misuse of it wasn’t considered. Fortunately, other parts of the act
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: After a Long, Unexplained Abscence #cdnpoli
Abscence makes the heart grow fonder. That’s a bogus expression. It creates worry, and doubt. That’s what a lot of people were feeling when Brian-Michel LaRue disappeared from online life he’d been immersed in most waking hours for the first 6 weeks during the RoboCon drama broke wide open in
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: IP Match Confirmed: Poutine Used Prescott’s Computer in #RoboCon
Read lots more by Brandon Laraby who has a roundup of links, Curiosity Cat, and Sixth Estate. When the latest documents from court appear online, I’ll post them with the rest. == RoboCon got a little more interesting and solid today after Glen McGregor made a trip to the courthouse
Continue readingRIP MCA – Saying Goodbye to a Beastie Boy
On this day, May 4th, 2012, the world was given the news that founding member of the Beastie Boys, Adam (MCA) Yauch, passed away after his long battle at the age of 47. A Beastie Boys representative confirmed that Yauch “passed away in his native New York City this morning after a
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: Students- Request for input on Mount Allison University’s Website Redesign Project
Cundari is helping create Mt. A’s new website. Help Mt. A by providing your input to them. Hi everybody, I’d like to relay a message sent this afternoon to all students in case you’re not checking your webmail often this summer. There’s a chance to provide input to the website
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: Graduating from Mount Allison University
Hi, I’m Geoff Campbell and this is my website. It’s designed to be a simple online resume, blog, portfolio of work samples. I used to write this blog but have since moved on for the most part. For more information on me see the about page. Onto my first post: In
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Evidence And Obstruction
Postmedia has reported that the Conservatives’ voter information database (CIMS), was being investigated along with other party’s databases, to determine who gave Pierre Poutine the thousands of phone numbers used to illegally robocall Guelph non-Conservative voters. The most interesting claim by their source, was that important information leading to the
Continue readingCritical Brain Candy: When Mayors attack
Apparently, Toronto’s esteemed Mayor Rob Ford got into a tussle with a reporter: Daniel Dale on what happened near the mayor’s home: “At some point, perhaps 10 or 15 seconds into the encounter, he cocked his fist near his head and began charging at me at a full run. I began
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: The phrases junior nurses and most staff do not care to hear from senior nurses…
… and other examples of nurses eating their young… A few statements I’ve heard in the last few years that I shall share periodically. “It is more important that I get all of my breaks than you young folk because I’m older and need to rest more often” I fail
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Elegant Mockery
I'm not sure I can properly mock this, vancouversun.com/business/Harpe…— CC (@canadiancynic) May 03, 2012 “Harper’s climate policy approved as ‘elegant’ approach by oil lobbyists“ Read more at Postmedia Although the government was warned by bureaucrats not to become “cheerleaders” for the oilpatch, three years ago, when it launched a lobbying
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: F-35: Thirty Five ways to Fail
MacKay has implicated the whole CPC cabinet as being complicit in an attempt to deceive voters prior to last year’s election as to the true cost of new fighter jets. Another unprecedented situation where every [then] cabinet minister of the government should resign for misleading Parliament (and thus lying to
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: No Reply from SaskPower
SaskPower’s VP May failed to respond to my followup points, so I’ve included her entire initial reply at my earlier post. I wrote a letter months ago to ask why solar power information on the SaskPower website is out of date and now wrong. The response was underwhelming. The webpages
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: 5 Years For Good Behaviour
Will the NDP live up to its latest promise? So far, Elizabeth May (who was oddly omitted from this story even though she pioneered the modern foray into non-House-heckling) has made due with venting on Twitter, rather than interrupting proceedings in the House of Commons with witty rejoinders to the
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: My New Website: GeoffBCampbell.com
Last night I finished putting up the bare bones on my new personal website/blog at GeoffBCampbell.com. Currently I only have an About page, Education, and Experience (Communications Assistant, Online Editor, Public Relations Coordinator, and Social Media Publisher). I’ll be adding a bit more to the skeleton I have up now, and pretty soon I’ll be
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Two Months
Our country is taking its sweet time to dole out justice to the culprits behind the illegal election robocalls one year ago. It’s been two months since this story came out involving Andrew Prescott, and no charges are pending for even the CPC Guelph campaign for violating disclosure rules. Examples
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Good Thing It’s ^Not Pollution, Eh?
– Research and Innovation Centre at UofRegina; site of “clean energy” investment by Shell and other fine fossil fuel financiers. One of the more ridiculous logical fallacies that climate change denialists use is that carbon dioxide can’t be pollution because it can also be breathed by plant life. It’s really
Continue readingIn This Corner: A plea from a canker sore sufferer.
“That Rev. Lovejoy displeases me. I think I’ll give him a canker sore.” — God, as spoken to Homer Simpson, in “Homer the Heretic” If you’ve never had a canker sore, this line from The Simpsons may elicit, at
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: Mount Allison University Class of 2012 Video
I just finished up working a video on graduating students’ plans for after graduation. It’s been great to see so many students willing to share their plans. Here’s the video: With some guidance I did the planning, recording, and editing of the video and Kiera Kent interviewed. Filed under: Uncategorized
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Who Owns Creations
One of my most popular videos is one of Richard Stallman answering my questions about the proprietary nature and danger of iPads and cell phones. YouTube linked me to this other interesting video where an early Radio Shack laptop is visible. It ran on AA batteries, and I used it
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