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The STM has just decided to raise rates for a CAM on the south shore. Those people will now have to pay $110 per month instead of $70 per month which they used to pay. This decision will only affect 3000 people. Horrible idea. We should be trying to... Posted at/Publié sur Impolitical on/à 2010-02-08 19:49 EST Dimitri Soudas spoke to the access to information breach that was exposed by CP yesterday , moving into damage control-political messaging mode: "PMO says political staff shouldn't meddle in freedom-of-information releases." As has been pointed out elsewhere today, this is quite ironic in and of itself. Posted at/Publié sur The Sir Robert Bond Papers on/à 2010-02-08 18:22 EST Via Crisisblogger , you can find a link to a post on mashable.com about a brewing controversy about comments on blogs. Seems some people making comments have been nasty:
Quel horreur , indeed. ...Posted at/Publié sur Morton's Musings on/à 2010-02-08 17:46 EST - Adlai Stevenson Posted at/Publié sur C A I T I - O N L I N E on/à 2010-02-08 15:51 EST Posted at/Publié sur Eugene Forsey Liberal on/à 2010-02-08 14:54 EST
Posted at/Publié sur Red Tory v.3.0 on/à 2010-02-08 14:38 EST From the outset, let me just say that personally, I don't care in fact, I think that harmonizing taxes makes a lot of sense from the practical standpoint of efficiency in terms of revenue collection and remittance but a lot of people are quite exercised about the issue. This latest effort spearheaded by Wilhelmus Nicholaas Theodore Marie "Bill" Vander Zalm contends that the proposed HST violates Sections 91 and 92 of the British North American Act of 1867. Posted at/Publié sur Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff - Site News on/à 2010-02-08 14:25 EST This is big news in a world where the average temperature is set to keep rising. Mosquitoes are among the most deadly animals in the world, and the best drug we have is about to become a placebo. Way to go, profiteering drug companies! == The Conservatives crowed about “accountability” then don’t release reports they are legally obligated to show the media upon request. “The document was an annual report on Public Works’ massive real estate portfolio, which contained factual information on high vacancy rates and weak returns on investment. Such reports had never been made public before.” **********************************... Posted at/Publié sur Eugene Forsey Liberal on/à 2010-02-08 14:23 EST I'm struck by irrationality of fellow Habs fans. I would ask everyone to think about things more rationally. Some points to consider: Posted at/Publié sur HarperBizarro on/à 2010-02-08 14:05 EST As mentioned earlier , today CP Wire (Dean Beeby) reports there is news of more ATIP delays by the Harper regime. In the words of Michel Drapeau, the shenanigans at PWGSC are "...a manifestation of political interference with the administrative processes." ... Posted at/Publié sur BigCityLib Strikes Back on/à 2010-02-08 12:53 EST The amazing Buckets has now confirmed Ezra Levant's back-dating of a post that may well prove important to the defamation case being brought against him by CHRC lawyer Giacomo Vigna. Put crudely, Vigna has sued Levant for suggesting that he (Vigna) faked an illness to get out of a CHRT (Canadian Human Rights Tribunal) hearing; in his "Correction" , Levant admits that Vigna was indeed able to secure a doctor's note for whatever ailed him, AND that he turned said note over to the tr... Posted at/Publié sur Scott's DiaTribes on/à 2010-02-08 12:39 EST Via Kady O’Malley, we see that CAPP is thinking of doing several things; changing what its acronym stands for, becoming incorporated as a non-profit organization, and more substantively, trying to educate people about democracy and activism: Following the resounding success of the nation-wide rallies held January 23rd, CAPP organizers have begun planning the future of the movement. Hoping to maintain the momentum achieved by those demonstrations, organizers have begun initiating plans in support of a greater long-term strategy. The strategy involves educating the public about democracy and their rights as citizens through the creation and administration of an independent database of information. Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament is in the process of structuring itself as a non-... Posted at/Publié sur The World Famous Dan Shields on/à 2010-02-08 12:34 EST He supported a loser but he does have chutzpah. Posted at/Publié sur C A I T I - O N L I N E on/à 2010-02-08 12:21 EST Posted at/Publié sur The World Famous Dan Shields on/à 2010-02-08 11:53 EST The Seaway Valley that is, you know, the one around Kingston, Prescott, Cornwall. Posted at/Publié sur The World Famous Dan Shields on/à 2010-02-08 11:32 EST In Chicago, Chicago, the city so nice they named it twice. Posted at/Publié sur Liberal Video Depot on/à 2010-02-08 11:11 EST Posted at/Publié sur Pareta on/à 2010-02-08 11:04 EST Posted at/Publié sur Red Tory v.3.0 on/à 2010-02-08 10:45 EST The "smart grid" concept explained in practical terms using electric hybrids automobiles as a starting point for illustrating the idea of how a more intelligent framework of energy distribution might work. Posted at/Publié sur The World Famous Dan Shields on/à 2010-02-08 10:24 EST Six weeks ago, give 'er take, the Tories had the Liberals by ten. Posted at/Publié sur The World Famous Dan Shields on/à 2010-02-08 10:24 EST May be there is hope for the Leafs after all. Posted at/Publié sur Morton's Musings on/à 2010-02-08 10:01 EST Posted at/Publié sur Morton's Musings on/à 2010-02-08 10:01 EST Thanks to Yossi Schochet for this: Posted at/Publié sur Morton's Musings on/à 2010-02-08 10:01 EST Today's National Post has an article about government (usually municipal) funding for claims made by officials against citizens for defamation. The article points out that governments themselves (at least outside Quebec) cannot sue for defamation and suggests that funding say, the Mayor's claim, is a way of avoiding that restriction. Posted at/Publié sur Je me souviens the life and times on/à 2010-02-08 09:19 EST GuelphMercury.com - News - Ignatieff, Trudeau coming to Guelph Joanne Shuttleworth GUELPH The leader of the Liberal Party of Canada is coming to Guelph Friday for a roundtable discussion on agriculture. Since the federal government is prorogued, the Liberals have been holding Friday forums to discuss issues and develop policy, Guelph MP Frank Valeriote said Wednesday. The economy, the environment, health care, seniors, poverty and governance have been forum topics in the past; this week it's agriculture. And that makes Guelph the natural place to host the forum, since it's home to the Ministry of Agriculture, the University of Guelph and all its food research and a number of agriculture associations, Valeriote said. "Guelph is the bridge between rural and urban," said Valeri... Posted at/Publié sur Morton's Musings on/à 2010-02-08 09:08 EST Today's National Post has an article about government (usually municipal) funding for claims made by officials against citizens for defamation. The article points out that governments themselves (at least outside Quebec) cannot sue for defamation and suggests that funding say, the Mayor's claim, is a way of avoiding that restriction. Posted at/Publié sur Je me souviens the life and times on/à 2010-02-08 09:04 EST By Charlie Smith Publish Date: February 4, 2010 Power can be sexy, but not in all cases, judging by the results of the fifth annual Georgia Straight sex survey. In this year's questionnaire, which was available on Straight.com in late December and early January, women and men were asked which politician they would like to have sex with. For women, two men dominated the pack: U.S. president Barack Obama and Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson. Obama collected a quarter of the votes from females who answered the question. Our city's Olympic mayor was cited by more than 15 percent of women, which could be taken as an indication that Robertson won't have difficulty getting reelected. Trailing far behind was former U.S. president Bill Clinton. Even after the Monica Lewinsky scandal and all h... Posted at/Publié sur Je me souviens the life and times on/à 2010-02-08 08:49 EST
Posted at/Publié sur Je me souviens the life and times on/à 2010-02-08 08:40 EST Bellavance, Joël-Denis Le chef du Parti libéral, Michael Ignatieff, voit d’un mauvais oeil la nomination au Sénat de l’Ontarien Bob Runciman, un ancien ministre dans le gouvernement conservateur de Mike Harris qui n’a jamais caché son hostilité envers le bilinguisme et les francophones. M. Runciman, qui a été ministre de la Sécurité publique de l’Ontario, a même déjà appuyé le groupe Alliance for the Preservation of English in Canada (APEC), une organisation francophobe dont les membres se sont rendus célèbres au pays en plein débat sur l’accord du lac Meech en piétinant et en brûlant le drapeau du Québec. M. Runciman est l’un des cinq sénateurs conservateurs nommés vendredi dernier par le premier ministre Stephen Harper afin de comb... Posted at/Publié sur All Politics Is Local on/à 2010-02-08 08:35 EST Not to print exit polls with no substantive backing in a close election. This is Ukraine. This is Viktor Yanukovitch who I believe won the last election based on exit polls . He may or may not have won this one. Can we wait for you know real results and maybe, some confirmation that this thing wasn't rigged before we jump to any conclusions? Particularly, when a run-off election between two candidates ends up with a tally of 49-45 or just 94% of the vote. Six percent spoiled ballots would be a huge and frankly, contestable number.... Posted at/Publié sur Morton's Musings on/à 2010-02-08 08:31 EST At least they have a decent excuse for a system in chaos: Quake upends rules of criminal justice 416 225 2777... Posted at/Publié sur Impolitical on/à 2010-02-08 08:22 EST There was a very troubling report from CP yesterday about violations of Access to Information laws under former Public Works Minister Christian Paradis' oversight. The department's real-estate branch had consented to the full release, and the Access to Information office at Public Works had determined after extensive consultation that there was Christian Paradis' parliamentary affairs dir... Posted at/Publié sur Je me souviens the life and times on/à 2010-02-08 08:15 EST By: Theo Meyer Posted: 2/2/10 Justin Trudeau, the Liberal MP for the northern Montreal riding of Papineau, served as the keynote speaker at the McGill Model United Nations conference on Thursday. Trudeau, the son of the late prime minister, sat down with the Tribune to discuss his undergraduate days at McGill, prorogation, and his life outside of politics. Tell me a bit about your time at McGill. Why did you choose to study in English rather than in French? Because I’d done my high school and CEGEP at [Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf in Outremont], so it was all French up until then. I decided that switching it up would be appropriate. Having done my seven years at Brébeuf, all French, I was looking forward to three years in downtown Montreal speaking English. Did it live up to your e... Posted at/Publié sur C A I T I - O N L I N E on/à 2010-02-08 08:08 EST Posted at/Publié sur Far and Wide on/à 2010-02-08 07:47 EST The new Nanos poll confirms the recent trend, a large Conservative lead has "evaporated". The national numbers (last Nanos poll in brackets): Cons 35.6% (39.5%) MOE of 3.1, this poll translates to another statistical tie. PDF hasn't been released yet, so regionals are scarce, but you can make some inferences. In Quebec: In Quebec, the Bloc Quebecois would reap 33.2% of the vote against 29.3% for... Posted at/Publié sur HarperBizarro on/à 2010-02-08 07:21 EST It has been difficult to see any logic to Stephen Harper's recent recalibration of the former Minister of Public Works and Government Services, Christian Paradis. It seemed more than passing odd to move your supposedly "most trusted" Quebec Minister from a mammoth government department to the relatively small portfolio of Natural Resources. ... Posted at/Publié sur BigCityLib Strikes Back on/à 2010-02-08 07:20 EST Yesterday, I suggested that Ezra Levant might have back-dated a post in which he retracted some of the false information he had been pushing re Giacomo Vigna, a CHRC lawyer that Levant will be meeting in an Ottawa courtroom tomorrow morning at 10:00 AM. Posted at/Publié sur Impolitical on/à 2010-02-08 07:07 EST There's a Globe report today that serves as a reminder on the isotope file that there's an upcoming period, February 19th to the end of April, during which two of the major isotope producing reactors in the world will be down. Posted at/Publié sur BigCityLib Strikes Back on/à 2010-02-08 06:39 EST The Conservatives led by nearly 10 points in mid-Novemberthey are now at 35.6% while the Liberals are at 33.9%...the NDP is at 16.4% and the Greens are at 5.6%...in Québec, the Bloc is at 33.2%...the Liberals are at 29.3%...the Conservatives are at 22.2% and the NDP are at 10.5%. Posted at/Publié sur Impolitical on/à 2010-02-08 06:15 EST One of the weightier issues of the day is perplexing Tim Powers: "What is Ignatieff's sport?" An effort no doubt to do a little bit more gratuitous hockey association for the PM by asking such a comparative question. Considering how sporting our PM is, i.e., not really at all, the effort at a budding "my sport is better than your sport" machismo contest seems rather ridiculous. Which winter sport would you compete in if you were an Olympian... Posted at/Publié sur THE WOODSTOCK ONTARIO INDEPENDENT NEWS on/à 2010-02-08 05:30 EST In 2009, residential permits&... Posted at/Publié sur THE WOODSTOCK ONTARIO INDEPENDENT NEWS on/à 2010-02-08 05:06 EST The study was conducted amongst a test group of 60,... Posted at/Publié sur Red Tory v.3.0 on/à 2010-02-08 04:16 EST Sean Holman poses the question of the B.C. government: "Will wildfires burn a hole in the coming fiscal year's budget?" Posted at/Publié sur CathiefromCanada on/à 2010-02-08 01:16 EST I just couldn't stand it anymore. Posted at/Publié sur Next Face on/à 2010-02-07 23:02 EST Posted at/Publié sur Eugene Forsey Liberal on/à 2010-02-07 22:06 EST Just one quick technical note, re. yesterday's and today's denticare posts. Once the non-profit public dental insurer had operated for a year, it would have a good idea of costs and revenues, and thus the appropriate rates to charge. Another year, two at most, and one would think it would have worked out all the kinks and calculations, whence my proposal that public-private competition be restrained for three years, initially. But how to calculate the rates in the first year? The generally accepted minimal nominal profit margin, in business, is 100%. Minimum. After one has calculated the costs inherent in the production of any good or service, the real profit margin is usually somewhere between 10-33%. When calculating the public insurer's rates for the first year one is also mindful o... Posted at/Publié sur Morton's Musings on/à 2010-02-07 22:00 EST Posted at/Publié sur Religious Right Alert on/à 2010-02-07 21:52 EST CHBC management made a decision not to air an advocacy commercial even though it had been given a broadcast number by Telecaster, a broadcast commercial clearing house. The ad was paid for by a BC anti-abortion group called Kelowna Right for Life, and it is probable the group was attempting to garner some pre-Olympic attention. CHBC general manager Dennis Gabelhouse: Gabelhouse said from what he knows, the ad was created in the U.S. in 1989 and has never actually aired on North American television, despite many attempts over the years by pro-life groups to air it on local stations. The ad insertion was paid for by Kelowna Right to Life and was scheduled to begin airing after midnight on Friday, but Gabelhouse said the station had already received complaints from people who had viewed i... Posted at/Publié sur The Scott Ross on/à 2010-02-07 19:53 EST Posted at/Publié sur BigCityLib Strikes Back on/à 2010-02-07 18:05 EST That's the amount which arctic warming will cost us this year. It's calculated on the social cost of carbon: the cost on agriculture, power generation resources, everything. By 2050, arctic warming would have cost us 2.4 trillion USD that year. We all know that for Harper, his numbers in the polls are the most important issue before he gets his majority. So, that means concentrating on the economy. This warming is costing us billions of dollars. So, Harper's "working" on the economy and yet, he doesn't care about the 370 billion USD that is going to be lost this year. It is time that we turn this trend around and start protecting the environment. The study estimated that melting sea ice and permafrost as well as dwindling snow co... Posted at/Publié sur C A I T I - O N L I N E on/à 2010-02-07 17:33 EST Posted at/Publié sur Warren Kinsella on/à 2010-02-07 15:21 EST ...well, a side gig, anyway. I'm one of the columnists for the new Canadian edition of Campaigns and Elections magazine. More here:The Canadian Editorial Advisory Board, in development, currently includes Canadian political notables Anie Perrault, John Capobianco, Robin Sears, and Don Guy. Included in the growing list of regular contributors will be Warren Kinsella, President of Daisy Consulting Group, who will provide readers with insight on the challenges and decision making during campaigns in his column titled “In the War Room,” as well as Brett Bell, Principal of Grassroots Online, who will enlighten readers about online campaigning and social media in modern politics with his column “Open Source.”I now expect all of you will run out and get a subscription. Or two or three. It... Posted at/Publié sur Red Tory v.3.0 on/à 2010-02-07 14:56 EST Having little else to do, I watched some of the former half-term Alaska governor (failed vice-presidential candidate, faux co-author of her own best-selling autobiography, teabagging keynote speaker, etc.) Sarah Palin's blathering, incoherent word-soup lovingly dished up on FNS this morning. Aside from all the rest of her rambling prevarications, shameless pandering to catastrophically dumb rubes, and achingly predictable anti-government rhetoric, what struck me most particularly was the air-quote gesture she used about half way into this clip when referring to President Obama as "serving" in office Check it out: Posted at/Publié sur The Sir Robert Bond Papers on/à 2010-02-07 14:34 EST Janice Kennedy Who? you may rightly wonder writes in the Ottawa Citizen on a topic of considerable current interest. Hard to tell what is worse: her suggestion the Premier should resign for seeking medical treatment in the United States - get a life, Ms. Kennedy - or the use of the word "Newfie" by one of the people commenting on her post. The first is just nonsense, as is most of the rationale she uses to get to that conclusion. The second is just plain insulting. Feel free, gentle readers, to give her way more attention than she deserves. -srbp- ...Posted at/Publié sur CalgaryGrit on/à 2010-02-07 14:09 EST Yeah, party members wanting open nominations. How petty of them. "When you have some people that are focused on what are fairly minuscule, petty issues to the distraction of that overall effort -- they're doing it to cause disrupti... |
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