Condemn An Industry
I often condemn the tar sands oil industry as a communist owned, unethical, dirty mess that’s destroyed Canada’s reputation just for a quick (geological-time) buck. There are engineers writing for…
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North Sky from Regina
– Last night during the thunderstorm. – A few months ago when everyone in Regina got those great mammatus cloud photos.
Tell Me What Music to Buy
I have 7 days left to use 35 iTunes song credits. Give me suggestions of independent, or Saskatchewan (or Canadian) musicians who need more money and make great music. I…
Sunset
This is the sunset a few evenings ago, through a #12 welding filter plate.
PSW Registry – Many issues unresolved despite impending deadline
As the deadline approaches for home care personal support workers to register with the government’s new PSW Registry, key issues remain up in the air and are unlikely to be…
Pussy Riot? Can you Say Assange?
A well-known British politician, who is considered a bit of a ‘radical’ in the best sense, in the UK, has launched a defence of Julian Assange, pointing out that, should…
Westwood Park (Ottawa) Designation
Tomorrow is the last day to get your comments to Simon Belanger-Hebert. You can email him at this address: Simon.Belanger-Hebert@ottawa.ca (it would probably also make sense to CC the local…
Justin Trudeau: hopeless, or only hope?
The Justin Trudeau bandwagon is getting pretty crowded, and it hasn’t even left the bandwagon station yet. OK, I have no idea if bandwagons had stations, or really what a…
Justice vs Collective Guilt-What Else is New?
Today in the CBC online media is an article about the quick response to a racist joke or two that appeared in a Legion newsletter; the perpetrator was quickly dismissed…
UK hospitals can’t compare notes on the price of private care
Public hospitals in the UK are no longer able to compare prices charged for private care in their hospitals. Eight hospital trusts in England have provided assurances that they will…
The Problem With Racists
Focus groups are good at focusing. If there is a strong racist voice in the group, they might start to focus on race. When I heard the news this morning…
Is the OHA next to experience public wrath over executive bonuses?
It seems there are two choices with regards to executive compensation. The first is to simply place executives on salary and expect them to do the job they get paid…
Canadian banks use of tax havens keeps growing
A growing share of Canada’s investment overseas is being channeled by Canadian banks into tax havens. The latest Statistics Canada figures show 24% of Canadian direct investment overseas in 2011…
Canada’s Economic Problem is NOT High Wages
Bill Curry reports in today’s Globe that, at last year’s economic policy retreat, business leaders urged Finance Minister Flaherty to reduce the pay of “overpriced” Canadian workers, including through anti…
An Open Letter to David Akin
This letter is for journalist David Akin, whose work is uncommonly good but who also takes issue with me. First of all, yes, Sixth Estate is anonymous. (Technically, because people…
England Threatens to Risk War With Latin America to Please United States!
I wish my title was embellished, but it’s been a crazy 24 hours. The background to this story is that Wikileaks‘ editor Julian Assange is holed up in Ecuador’s embassy…
Dis-honouring Our Homemade Monsters
Here’s a headline from CBC online today, talking about a sticker campaign to point out the hypocrisy of naming things after history’s deviates. In this case, the target is former…
Ontario gets worse grade than feds on CMA report card
Ontario is the only region in Canada to receive a worse rating than the federal government on how it deals with health care according to the Canadian Medical Association’s National…
This Rob Ford sideshow is becoming embarassing
The latest: Police to Mayor Rob Ford: ‘Please get a driver’. I guess it’s always been kind of embarrassing, but it was still funny, in the way that you hope…
Economic downturn taking toll on health of Canadians – CMA report card
The economic downturn is taking a toll on the health of Canadians according to the Canadian Medical Association’s annual report card. The report card represents a poll of Canadians conducted…