Fisheries Canada: "Virus, what virus?"
450,000 salmon to be destroyed after outbreak of anemia in Newfoundland and Labrador, Globe and Mail, July 7, 2012 “Newfoundland and Labrador is dealing with its first outbreak of infectious…
July 2012
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Idle Saturday speculation
Will the real Minister of International Cooperation please stand up? Chris Alexander, Parliamentary Secretary for National Defence, on behalf of the Honourable Julian Fantino, Minister of International Cooperation, is attending…
Quote of the day
We need evidence-based decision-making; not decision-based evidence-making. -Raj Sherman, leader of Alberta Liberals Via Elizabeth May Related posts (randomly generated) Conservatives win majority; Greens elect leader Elizabeth May, the first…
Randy Hoback’s Pulp Fiction
Last week, Conservative MP Randy Hoback had another letter in The Prince Albert Daily Herald blaming the NDP for the pulp-mill closure in 2006. He still has not addressed my…
Vancouver voters dodged their own disaster
The November vote was not close but Vancouver and British Columbia dodged a disaster when Susan Anton’s mayoral campaign disappeared underwater. If you want to confirm that view, read David…
Stephen Harper and the Redneck Rodeo
It's hard to imagine a more horrible or absurd sight, than Great Black Hat Leader at the Redneck Rodeo. Posing as a pretty Brokeback cowboy, pursued by a posse of…
Instant Karma For Tea Party Tax Cutting In Colorado Springs City
The majority of city councilors in Colorado Springs adhere to Tea Party tax cutting ideology. As a result, dozens of police officers and firefighters have had their jobs terminated to…
Kate Middleton without make-up. :)
A picture in The New Republic ,the American political magazine.
Tim Hudak’s Anti-Unionism
Never an original or deep thinker, young Tim Hudak, whose recent decision to rely on demagoguery in place of reason by condemning unions as the reason for the poor economy…
From Moran Dam to Enbridge: The Danger of Focusing on Economics Over Environment
Robyn Allan is the former President and CEO of the Insurance Corporation of BC and is an economist by trade. I have enormous respect for Ms. Allan and concur with…
What You Should Have Read About in Yesterday’s Unemployment Rate News
As usual, the moment StatsCan’s monthly jobs survey numbers go even slightly squirrelly, the media proves utterly unable to handle it. When news broke yesterday, Canadians were variously told that…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lori Wallach discusses the corporate coup underlying the Trans-Pacific Partnership which the Cons are so eager to force on Canada: (T)rade is the…
Comrade Kinsellaski’s Son One
Everything that the National Post and Sun News have been saying for years is true: the Kinsellas are Kommunists. Proof, here, in the form of a cropped photo of Son…
July 7: I didn’t actually win the $50,000,000, but…
It was last night’s lottery. Fifty million plus fifty more of one million each. I had one number right. I took that as a good sign for things to come;…
4850…Ontario Leads The Way
July 9 1793: An Act Against Slavery law passed in the 1st legislative session of Upper Canada, what is now Ontario. It was the 1st anti-slavery legislation in the British…
4849…El Roundo Is Going To Meet W Elex Canada
Yaay!The Globe and Mail reports that the Parliamentary Secretary to our beloved Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Dean Del Mastro, is going to meet with Elections Canada. You may be aware…