Game 4: Boston's bruins, libyas and supermen

“As they pad their expense account and look out the windows of their $11,000 per hour Challenger jet flights, they think that everything is going pretty well. They just don’t get what real life is like for ordinary Canadians.” — Stephen Harper in 2005, referring to the use of government jets by Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin and his government.

{On Wednesday [Jun 8], the PMO said Mr. Harper, his daughter and Mr. Moore would each pay $500 for their tickets, and $530 each for the flight.}

Knut the polar bear RIP and mysterious zoo deaths

Like Knut at the Berlin Zoological Garden, who was born in captivity and suddenly died on 19 March 2011, convulsing and drowning in front of hundreds of people, there have been a lot of recent deaths at the Calgary Zoo. Before this, there were only sometimes mass butterfly problems, due to heating failures in the old conservatory. It started with the cownose stingrays, which sadly succumbed to something mysterious - even the police investigated - that turned out to be poor oxygenation in the tank of the popular new exhibit (May '08), most likely. I don't know what happened to the second batch after the 1 died in shipping. One day the kids love the critters, in the next days the critters are dead. The capybara (one of my favourites!) was crushed accidentally; they are big rodents, like giant guineau pigs or cavy-deers.

Better days: Knut and Thomas Dörflein (1963–2008)

A baby elephant, a hippo, a wild goat, four gorillas and 41 stingrays. Next, at first unpublicized, a couple of spider monkeys, four feather-tailed sugar gliders, several mule deer, dozens of sebas and pallas bats, woodland caribou and muskox. Injured: African wild dogs and other animals. Since then, an endangered zebra, some Siberian tiger kittens, and 2 engangered whooping crane eggs that froze in a spring blizzard at the zoo's Devonian Wildlife Conservation Centre south of the city. It used to be lousy at catering and a better zoo.

It does seem strange now, over the last 15 years: very restructured and very involved in the special events and banquets, new buildings that are architecturally lovely, and interactive displays that make a lot of noise with crowding on the walkways and Mrs. Harvie's ghost in a Children's Zoo that went missing with the snake & bird building. I'll miss the beautiful old conservatory - many of the plants and little ecosystems didn't make it either. See: Zoocheck

Thomas Dörflein, 44, the Berlin zoo keeper who raised Knut from cub to full maturity,
was found dead in mysterious circumstances in a friend's Berlin apartment.

Bollywood, Cricket, a Con Majority with GMO Popcorn

Con Canada is Very Ethnic, and Number One! lending our material support to terrorists, WOO HOO, and world's most dangerous men people on ice - (no, not THAT ice like mafia iced or cryo-preserve$ or diamond scarcity & jubilees)(rather, James Moore $75 iPod tax Canuck/Bruins who-truly-gives-a-phLying-puck heritage minister ice, wid de Beers eh).

http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/topic/cityvote2011/article/123896--harper-goes-bollywood

---> {Immigration Minister Jason Kenney breaking rules and his official MP letterhead// BREAKING THROUGH - BUILDING THE CONSERVATIVE BRAND

• Heavy deployment over 2 weeks (Starting March 15)
• Official "Launch" on March 20 (India Cricket Match)
• TV Buy Costs: $125,000, $250,000, $68,000, $318,000

---> D Company is said to have a 60 per cent stake in the Bollywood film industry and controls most betting on cricket matches.

one big thumbs up! with fake butter (topping)!

After all is said and re-counted: CON 166; NDP 103; LIB 34; BLOC 4; GRN 1.

Tell Us What You Think

"The Beyond the Border Working Group wants to hear from you on ways to preserve and extend the benefits the close relationship between Canada and the United States has helped bring to Canadians and Americans alike. Your input will inform the development of a joint action plan for perimeter security and economic competitiveness. From now through to **June 3, 2011** you can participate in our online consultation and provide your thoughts on initiatives that would improve security while supporting economic competitiveness, job creation and prosperity." http://www.borderactionplan-plandactionfrontalier.gc.ca/psec-scep/consultations-consultations.aspx

Hello, Your question is worded stupidly. I think there is a typo: "How would you suggest Canada and the United States collaborate to project critical infrastructure and ensure cyber security?" You probably meant "to protect" or something like that. Who knows really.

Anyway, sure, why not team up with the toilet-est economy in the world, i.e. the USA. Has no one in Canada's federal government looked at the balance shite here? Has no one in Canada's federal government checked the clout the EPA has in relation to, say, corporations and their 'health concerns'? Has no one in Canada's federal government realized that years and years of careful planning and investments will likely be lost now?

Sure, why not. And let's build military bases all over the world, too. That way, we can throw words around like "prosperity" and "security" (or is it projectity for a new American Century (PNAC)) and do business with and bomb whoever we damn well want to, whenever we damn well want to.

Sure, gopher it. Kill all the civilians we can and sell a LOT of armaments.