in other news

Jim Flaherty to Jason Kenney (about Rob Ford): STFU, the base, the base and Ontario municipal and/or provincial elections.

spybots & fire sales

The Canadian government is selling embassies, e.g., Paris 35/37 avenue Montaigne, 5 rue de Constantine (UNESCO). It sold One Grosvenor Square last month, where John Baird vacationed with six friends Christmas 2012.

Macdonald House

These do not include Canadian embassies that now are shared with UK embassies or the Buffalo N.Y. consulate that first was renovated ($1.5m) and had a 10-year lease.

In other news, Canada set up spy posts for the National Security Agency/ Central Security Service (NSA/CSS), the 'main producer and manager of signals intelligence (SIGINT)' for the United States of America; PM Harper allowed Six Eyes foreignersNSA to spy at a billion dollar G20 summit in Toronto, 2010. And what about that Muskoka and infrastructure fund to reduce border congestion.

In other fire sale news: selling a Crown corporation (AECL) for $12.3 million to SNC-Lavalin, without a value-for-money audit.

bangbangbang ... bang bang.. bang bang ... bang, bang

3 shots, 2 shots, 2 shots, 2 shots. That's 9 shots and the other officers just stand around lalalala and then he was tasered.

SY: "You're a fucking pussy." JF: "Drop the knife." Enhanced video of police shooting Sammy Yatim, Saturday, July 27, 2013

James Forcillo and group of police

"The officer who tasered a Toronto teenager after he was shot multiple times on a streetcar is under investigation." theglobeandmail.com

Update. Toronto officer charged with second-degree murder in the streetcar shooting of Sammy Yatim last summer has been charged again with attempted murder "leaving him in an apparent contradiction: prosecutors claim he both murdered and attempted to murder the Toronto teen." thestar.com, Jul 30 2014

atomic energy of canada limited

I don't know how much ("taxpayers"/public) R&D money was invested in AECL since the 1940s, but in 2011 its technology sold for a mere $15 million, plus 15 years of royalties, which could net a return of ... (as much as!) ... $285 million.

In 2009 alone, it received $651 million in federal support. Optics: someone got a sweet deal. And it wasn't Linda Keen, the president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission or any nuclear remediation people. I await the Canadian Taxpayers Federation report on this debacle.

Candu reactor, "CANada Deuterium Uranium"

Predictions. CBC is kind of a Crown Corporation, so it will go to Quebecor for $1.75. Canada Post, au revoir. The Bank of Canada and Royal Canadian Mint will get sucked into the U.S. Federal Reserve vortex of Fraser Institology um, City of London mergerness. Canadian Museum of Civilizational History, almost fini ($25 million). Military Museums, who knows, just say yay! illegal settlements, fait accompli. The Young Royals and The Baby will make many appearances during times of comet tails, Jesus, and Heavens to Betsy what's-her-name will look like a nice brunette Mary and madonna, just like a Warhol suddenly is on the Sotheby's market with #99. The U.S. will default on its debt, so the wars will be free!

That's how Minister Flaherty will balance his books, with fire sales.

gorilla town

There is something strange going on with the gorillas at the Calgary Zoo.

gorilla, with a knife

A keeper was fired this year because, after accidentally leaving a knife in the western lowland gorilla enclosure in 2009 (that's how that one got a knife). He also left the kitchen door unlatched and in March the male gorilla beat him up. Now, with a new keeper, it just happened again, twice in less than a year that the western lowland gorillas got in the kitchen.

CTV: Animals moved to higher ground

I'm not sure what's so difficult about using a proper latch for a kitchen. Then, there was the big flood. Almost all of the animals were safely evacuated, including the hippos, even though they nearly went downstream as wild,wild riverhorses in a new river zoo.

Flood-ravaged zoo nearly lost hippos canoe.ca

Mama mia. Dr. Jake Veasey: “There was the potential of hippos swimming out of the building and into the flooded Bow River” and concern about the big cats. Plan: In holding cells at the Calgary Court Centre.

stem cell food

If a stem cell burger is meat, is a potential human stem cell food additive baby juice?

Mark Post presents the €250,000 burger, grown in a laboratory from muscle stem cells.

“The company’s key flavor programs focus on the discovery and development of savory, sweet and salt flavor ingredients that are intended to allow for the reduction of MSG, sugar and salt in food and beverage products,” the Senomyx web site says. “Using isolated human taste receptors, we created proprietary taste receptor-based assay systems that provide a biochemical or electronic readout when a flavor ingredient interacts with the receptor.”

Patent S2383. Be ye pro-life or pro-choice, it is weird. Hospitals and clinics gotsta make vats and vats of money selling fetal material. There's an "emerging market growing potential" of sweet brain experiences by Nestlé, Ajinomoto, Co., Inc., Firmenich (flavor chemicals). See also S6821 Bitter Blocker.

OTTAWA – Public servants spent a full month...

OTTAWA – Public servants spent a full month, at the “urgent” request of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, preparing two splashy announcements heralding the destruction of the long-gun registry data—only to have the events cancelled at the last moment without explanation. macleans.ca

Prorogorama. Government bills that have been scrapped by prorogation and 20 sitting days eliminated.

hockey, hockey, hockey, football

1. Canada’s Sochi 2014 Olympic hockey team camp, Calgary Alta. (No on-ice work-outs, insurance.) Starting long journey to Bolshoy Ice Palace or somewhere like that. Hockey Canada HQ, Canada Olympic Park (COP), Cowtown. Sochi Games Feb 7, 2014 – Feb 23, 2014.

2. NHL preseason tickets go on sale today (first game Sept 14). Regular season begins Tues Oct 1, 2013.

3. Setphen J. Hapner's hockey book, sneak preview. Hockey, the Product, Players, The Product, well-compensed MMA gliderators, The Industry: A fan's pissant. Ken King's New Empire vs Daryl Katz. BIFF! ZOW! CONFEDERATION AND WORLD WAR I! ZAP!

4. Football, The Halftime Show, like 41st Parliament, scheduled to return post-July-shuffle (Gerry Ritz, stays) on September 16th, now postponed until October. Sometime. After the Australian federal and Alberta municipal elections. Maybe. The 2013 Grey Cup in Regina, Saskatchewan on Nov 20-24.

Hedley (2010 Olympics, Parks Canada) to perform but, more importantly, 2012 Grey Cup Halftime Show, incl Diamond Jubilee Medal.for UK Head of State.Instead. Yo, nothing says CFL fans better than a 10-17 year-old demographic for 100th Grey Cup.

bear eats bear, navy ship hits navy ship

 Subject-Object Agreement

The grizzly bear ate the whole thing. Bear No. 122 and the little black bear.

En route to Hawai'i, during routine exercises, the destroyer HMCS (Her Majesty's Canadian Ship) Algonquin and supply ship HMCS Protecteur, collide. The fleet of .. now has a few gaps.

“Poison Stupid Donut Burger from Hell"

Dr. Berger, Toronto Public Health, investigates berger burger. Cronut poisonings at CNE (Canadian National Exhibition). A cronut has croissant-doughnut mix for a bun. 34 reported cases of foodborne illness.

Update cronuts in a jam: Maple bacon jam identified as culprit in more than 220 reported cases. Le Dolci, La Dolci, Canadian National Exhibit, Staphylococcus aureus toxin. (CTV) recipe: bacon, maple syrup, water and brown sugar, refrigerate. other CNE controversies when a Gucci bag is $20, ...

Domestic terrorist suspect, John Nuttall, now is a -> certified <- nutter. One of a pair who apparently planned to bomb the grounds of the B.C. Legislative Assembly on July 1st and who might have been given pressure cookers by Mr Biggs, RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) has certification and was transferred.

socialism update: Bold Colours

TheTeaPotParty™

Dear God, the lexicon, the "lexicon."
There we are. The NDP is the pantywaist party.

best translation 2013 {Chelyabinsk meteorite}

Взрыв метеорита над Челябинском 15.02.2013.avi

 

@vishnevetsky "No fucking way, what is that? Some kind of cunt meteorite? Fuck me. No fucking way. I could go fuck myself."

NASA tracked Russia meteorite smoke plume that circled the world in just four days.

best of 2013 -- oops!

Conservatives did/ did not send Saskatchewan robocalls.
RackNine, gerrymandering electoral boundaries

PMO: director of issues management

Chase Research -- "mistake"
Hapnerr: "our position to the public is very clear"

The Wildrose Party was suspected by some of involvement in the call but its origin was never confirmed. Meier’s company has worked for Wildrose as well as the federal Conservatives.

“There was an internal miscommunication on the matter, and the calls should have been identified as coming from the Conservative Party,” said DeLorey.

After the Citizen made inquiries of Meier, the outgoing messages on the two numbers were replaced by out-of-service messages.

Jenni Byrne (born 1977) is the director of political operations for the Conservative Party of Canada and a former director of issues management at the Prime Minister's Office.

• June. PMO sends phony protesters to Trudeau appearance ("Holding signs quoting Tory attack ads, the young Conservatives stood behind Trudeau’s podium during his televised speech.".
• August "A FRESH START" PMO sought 'ENEMIES LIST' to brief SHUFFLED cabinet ministers and senior staff shuffled at the PMO: "Jenni Byrne, who steered the Conservatives’ 2011 campaign with another former chief of staff, Guy Giorno, moves from the party’s head office to become a deputy chief of staff to Ray Novak."  
• Saskatchewan SenatorPamela Wallin, resident "of Kuroki Beach" SK vs Gluskin Sheff filings (board of directors). On 3 boards, claimed Senate expenses for Porter expenses, and tried to make retroactive redactions.
• New Canadians and adults in literacy programs get a propaganda-mainline, with HAPNER$VERB$™ & conjugation$™ "voted" #5 btw is incorrect, majority of Canadians did not vote goon. via Read Saskatoon, federally-funded 
• CTV photojournalist Dave Ellis asks Stephen Harper a question, therefore nearly prevented from boarding PM's plane NY - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Former Harper Press Secretary-Sen. Carolyn Stewart Olsen quits chair of Senate internal economy committee, denies whitewashing expense reports ('deep roots' NB), recently accused of wrongly claiming more than $4,000 in accommodation and meal expenses at a time when she was not involved in any Senate business. Sen David Tkachuck resigned chair committee on internal economy, budgets and administration in June '13

there he is! poet lariat

Wikipedia: Noah (orant)

Jet stream gets stuck. The weather system came over the mountains from the Pacific. As it spun and stalled over the foothills, it pulled in moisture from Saskatchewan, the United States and the Gulf of Mexico.

As Parliamentary Poet, Fred Wah had one assignment: Diamond Jubilee. Souds easy nufh, and they're hiring! Queen's a queen for sixty, ain't that nifty. [£900,000]

Nomination deadline: Position of Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, 2014-2016. Deadline to submit nominations: Wednesday 3 July 2013.

Wah says he would like more work. According to the National Post, he has a "list of what would have been more worthy topics for Canada’s national poet to tackle, apparently taking aim at the Conservative government’s immigration reforms, its legislative agenda on aboriginal issues, its strong backing for Israel on questions of peace and security in the Middle East, and its openness to the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline."

According to Wah: “I wish that my government had asked me to write poetry about immigration policy, about Idle No More, about Canada’s complicity in the Middle East, the Enbridge pipeline... I haven’t been asked to do any of those things.” ("A Poet Without Poems," National Post)

The position of poet lariat was vacant from April to Dec 2011. Wah is a former teacher at Selkirk College, David Thompson University Centre and the University of Calgary.

Ideas for Parliamentary Committee, PBO, PMO, or Whoever Is In Charge of Poet Laureate's Assignments. Big, big floods. Floods of the century. Unprecedented, catastrophic, floods. (many rivers! creeks! :: Bow R. 1902, 1915, 1932 :: Elbow R. 1915, 1923, 1929, 1932, 2005 :: God willing and the creek/s don't rise. property values, hazard zones. realtors, developers.) Senate? Elections Canada. Wright-wing nuts? White-ring nuts? Stampedes for Winnipeg KISS key tickets... and Cheney Dixie Chicks doctrine? MacKenzie Northern Railway, CPR, Mary River Railroad, Baffinland. CNOOC (China National Offshore Oil Corp). Permafrost. Alberta Saudi Bushes. Snubbery: Marc Garneau. Brad Wall, potash, uranium. Big Brother/PRISM & NSA premiering on Global TV? Season 15, of digitizing and modernizing. There's that. Word Nation in April 21-28. Edmonton 2013.

In other news, Nestlé applies for patent, a fennel flower extract, and its {Bilderberger} CEO, Peter Brabick, says water should be privatized, Avenue Nestlé. Transport Canada deletes environment from Transport Canada website (Navigable Waters Protection Act)(Oct/12), even though parts of a CP train loaded with hazmat just may fall in a river and force the evacuation of a surrounding neighborhood and an already-under-repair waste water treatment plant and, in a large city that's in a local state of emergency. You kin delete environment butt it'll delete you, that's Leviticus, more than shellfish. A 1996 damage estimate for a *1/100 Year* Calgary flood is $131 million (actual: ~$500 million). TM writers argue moral rights clauses. Back-Door Tar Sands Scheme Blocked by Maine Community. A Victoria historic site is scheduled for um, deletion. "In order to serve tourists better," Cavendish home was closed on Sunday, Monday, in June, and no one told tourists. Austerity, a small arithmetic mistake. Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), Dr. Arthur Porter's Panamanian lawyer was a Noriega middleman. Heritage Minister James Moore develops a premium access plan [from the Ottawa Citizen. Report: “Library and Archives Canada Private Deal Would Take Millions of Documents Out of Public Domain”] for a publicly-funded Library and Archives Canada. CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) quiety announces changes to "local food" labelling (50km to *1,500km*).

CCS U ~ r&d carbonmonster

Provincial government: there's no money for higher education ($100m cuts)(protests and leaving), because it was all spent on Frack U. ($300m) and carbon capture and storage (ccs)/clean oil energy ($745m), ($1.3b and federal enzymes ($4.7m)).

Frack U.

Oh look. September 23, 2009. Burying Carbon Dioxide in Underground Saline Aqifers: Political Folly or Climate Change Fix? By Graham Thomson, The Program On Water Issues (POWI). 'Program support from the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation and the Tides Canada Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.'

evil fucks haarp.gov

HAPNER NEWS. what kind of evil fuckgovernor namesa whole fucking ayotollah canada government after himROYALASSHATself  Meglomaniac dickwad sturmtroupefuck,The fucking Media PRTY
mediaingFREAK! it's an "office" goddamn monkeyshitwhite noise..

The "Harper Government" this, the "Harper Government," that, this the NigelfuckyParty that.

Pft.

PFT!.

99 AHS execs on the wall

AHS, more re-structuring.

$3.2 million bonus payouts to 99 executives (AHS Executive Bonuses: Chair Openly Defies Government's Directive To Stop Bonus Payouts, Jun 12, 2013)

So: the Entire board is fired (Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne appointed AHS chair, Stephen Lockwood, less than a year ago). The province announces 24 new clinics and cuts long-term care ("P3" privatiztion).

canada post - junk biznuz & spam

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• coupons and savings offers from local businesses
• catalogues from local and national retailers
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UPDATE: {2013: file #22-37.} unsolicited mail, Shaw

deleting... gc hrsdc (TFWP), redtape

Modernizing...
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW)

New Wage Structure

On April 25, 2012, common-sense improvements to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program were announced to better meet labour market demands, reduce red tape for employers, strengthen protections for temporary foreign workers and support the economic recovery. These enhancements included a new wage structure.

Every employer continues to be required to pay temporary foreign workers the same wage that they are paying their Canadian workers for doing the same job in the same location.

Under the old wage structure, employers were required to pay temporary foreign workers at least the median wage for an occupation in a specific region, regardless of what they were paying their Canadian employees. In many cases, this resulted in employers paying temporary foreign workers more than Canadians. The method of determining the median wage was also inconsistent from region to region. The old structure was unfair to Canadians and did not reflect labour market realities. After various consultations, action was taken to address the problem.

Under the new wage structure, employers can pay wages that are up to 15% below the median wage for a higher-skilled occupation, and 5% for a lower-skilled occupation, in a specific region. However, employers must provide documentation that clearly demonstrates that the wage being paid to a temporary foreign worker is the same as that being paid to their Canadian employees in the same job and in the same location. The wage for a lower-skilled occupation cannot be below minimum wage and the wage range is set at 5% because these jobs pay less. The new wage structure is based on Statistics Canada's data and allows a set range that provides a flexibility that was not previously available.

The new wage structure does not apply to the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program, the Agricultural Stream or the Live-in Caregiver Program because employers participating in these programs hire mostly temporary foreign workers.
Scenarios

Date modified:

2013-04-16

AHS good news bad news

Doctors get a tentative contract. Nurses get layoffs during Nursing Week.
Alberta Health Services. 

In the past:

• severance details for former AHS CEO's
• Andrew Will, AHS Official Gets $738,000, 18-Month Severance Package 
• allaudin merali’s extravagant expenses and severance package
• Alberta Health Services cuts ‘bonuses’ but not necessarily executive pay
• Fired health boss Jack Davis gets $5.7M package, Sheila Weatherhill 
• Premier Alison Redford's Sister Expensed Public For Tory Party Events (Lynn Redford, former government relations adviser to the now-defunct Calgary Health Region from 2005 to 2008, is currently the vice-president in charge of special projects for the Alberta Health Services, or AHS, superboard)
• Alberta can't recoup executive's Mayo Clinic expenses
• Ralph Klein, the Holy/Huang Cross, private eye surgery
• AMA calls for inquiry into doctor intimidation (feb15/11) // Alberta doctors bullied by bosses, panel finds (feb22/12)
• Alberta’s queue-jumping inquiry shifts to University of Calgary
• Premier cool on past link with PM
• Redford elected MLA in Calgary-Elbow in 2008 and immediately appointed Attorney General and Minister of Justice

dustup at jails & fires

Calgary Prison Guards Rally At Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Calgary Constituency Office on Sat/September 15, 2012 -- "Mallette says the union has been trying repeatedly to meet with Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, but hasn't had any success." (After various protests at Harper's office, like Prorogue and Idle No More, no more of that youse... and Shoppers Only.) Calgary prison guards corrections officers protest at Solicitor General Jonathan Denis' office in Fri/ February 01*.

Grass fire - Calgary, Alberta

Edmonton officers are now on a wildcat strike with lockdown and riot police after the suspension of 2 union executives who on Fri/ April 26 relayed 'health & safety concerns' to management.

Fish Creek Park, dry & windy on Fri/April 26

*Russian student kicked into coma/ permanent brain damage by other inmates, Calgary Remand Centre.

Full moon: Thurs, April 25, 2013 1:58 PM

UPDATE: Associate Chief smartAssinine Justice John Rooke about the $100,000+ fines for province-wide strikers: "Banks are open tomorrow, last I checked." (Monday, Apr 29)

Amnesty ends strike.  Strike ends. Redford confirms pledge but

Tibet Autonomous Region

About these account settings:

update: mining the mint

"In 2006, for some unknown reason, non-magnetic planchets were used to produce coins with a P below the effigy of the queen."

2006P, magnetic and  non-magnetic

2006RCM, magnetic and  non-magnetic

1 cent values of circulating coins
2006     P     -    -    -    -    -    -    $ 0.01
2006     Magnetic     -    -    -    -   $ 49
2006     RCM Logo - Magnetic  - $ 0.01
2006     Non magnetic     -    -    - $ 0.01
2006     RCM Logo     -    -    -    $ 0.01
2006     P - Non magnetic     -    - 

1 cent values of uncirculating coins
2006     P     $ 0.13    $ 0.70    $ 5.80    $ 9.60    $ 20    $ 42    $ 82
2006     Magnetic     $ 80    $ 160    $ 190    $ 260    $ 420    $ 550  
2006     RCM Logo - Magnetic     $ 1.10    $ 2.40    $ 3.80    $ 6.30    $ 15    $ 40    $ 95
2006     Non magnetic     $ 0.13    $ 0.70    $ 0.95    $ 5.30    $ 14    $ 28    $ 39
2006     RCM Logo     $ 0.13    $ 0.70    $ 0.95    $ 5.70    $ 14    $ 30 
2006     P - Non magnetic     $ 100    $ 210    $ 300    $ 380    $ 480    $ 680
coinsandcanada.com

hehe, Togneri's back

On boogers in the body politic. The Alberta Wildrose Party Sure can pick 'em!

Sebastien Togneri, the high level Tory operative accused of blocking freedom of information requests

"Togneri set off a political firestorm when it was revealed by The Canadian Press that he, as a senior aide to then Public Works Minister Christian Paradis, had ordered the "unrelease" of a sensitive document that the department was set to provide to the news agency after a request under the Access to Information Act. As a result, he was the subject of a year-long probe by Canada's information commissioner in 2011 in which he was found to have meddled in a number of access-to-information files in 2010. The investigation concluded that Togneri had interfered with the release of a record, even though he had no legal authority to do so." source

Wildrose spokesman: Vitor Marciano 

update: DNA, horse meat, taco bell, iceland

wowzers. Imitation calamari = hog rectum ('bung')

So, there's horse meat at three Taco Bells in London UK. "Meanwhile, in Iceland, a food official said his team had found a beef product which contained no meat at all."

There was no mammalian DNA in beef pies, said Chief meat inspector Kjartan Hreinsson.

Taco Bell joins a long list of food providers — Nestle, Burger King, Tesco, Birds Eye, Findus and even Ikea — that have had to remove products amid horse meat revelations.

mining the mint

Copper is slumping, down 5% in the last month, due to increased inventories (doubling in three months). The mint stopped distributing pennies on February 3rd, 2013. It's Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's bid to save Canadians more money lol, since a penny was 1.6 cents. Financial institutions will get reimbursed for collecting the metal. (Prediction: banking windfall) 
One Cent Coins to look for: (1) 1953-1979, (2) 1980-1981, and (3) 1982-1996

 

Years	Mass	Diameter/Shape	Composition
2000–2012	2.35 g	19.05 mm, round	94% steel, 1.5% nickel, 4.5% copper plating
1997–1999	2.25 g	19.05 mm, round	98.4% zinc, 1.6% copper plating
1982–1996	2.5 g	19.1 mm, 12-sided	98% copper, 1.75% tin, 0.25% zinc
1980–1981	2.8 g	19.0 mm, round	98% copper, 1.75% tin, 0.25% zinc
1978–1979	3.24 g	19.05 mm, round	98% copper, 1.75% tin, 0.25% zinc
1942–1977	3.24 g	19.05 mm, round	98% copper, 0.5% tin, 1.5% zinc
1920–1941	3.24 g	19.05 mm, round	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc
1876–1920	5.67 g	25.4 mm, round	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc
1858–1859	4.54 g	25.4 mm, round	95% copper, 4% tin, 1% zinc (bronze)

Penny production ceased on May 4th, 2011. So far, I think I'm down 10-15 cents on penny-rounding at stores.

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best of 2012

There are too many items from which to choose, so here's a list in the making.

1. Tory press statement at midnight. On Friday. It outdoes any other of its Friday media releases. (announcement: 163 words)
2.  Rob Anders. What does he do? And will he get a pension for it?
3. The beautiful game's match fixing. Canadian Soccer League (CSL): organized crime operating from a bar in Berlin and the advantages of avoiding the spotlight in lower leagues.
4. After imposing puzzling visa requirements for Mexicans (link, link and link) in 2009, the 'Harper' Conservative random expensive flipflop bobblehead changes its mind.
5. Shaw Communications learns a difficult lesson. In case of fire, it may not be a good idea to have a backup system in the same building.
6. Zoos: In Calgary, a penguin laid an egg, a dud, and an elephant miscarried. The Price Is Right guy wants to adopt the elephants (or is that Toronto's? or Edmonton's?), because it's too goddamn cold for elephants. It doesn't count as death, unless you're into zygote, fetus, ... er, ... animalhood.
7. Mall roof collapse in Elliot Lake, Ontario. Heavy Urban Search and Rescue was on scene, a program that incidentally received notice of budget cuts. The mall's owner, Robert Nazarian's lawyer with yipyap. How can a mall just collapse.
8. John Baird, Foreign Affairs Minister: Libya and ... Thomas Jefferson? -- not exactly referring to a Canucki, uh, but, uh, okay, at least Baird's not yelling.
9. Mary and Joseph announce a royal pregancy at Christmas time via morning sickness and what can possibly go wrong.
10. Don't worry. Nobody noticed that the 1812 video has the same name as David Orchard's book. (See #8.)
11. Mike Holmes, parade marshal for the 2009 Calgary Stampede, joins David Suzuki as a radical. ("The world is full of shady contractors who take shortcuts, use shoddy building practices or employ a band-aid approach...." hgtv.com (See #7.)
12. Automated, software journalism gains traction!
13. After amendments to the Local Government Act, BC's Jumbo gets a mayor, councillors. Jumbo has no residents. And Premier Christy Clark just cancels the fall session altogether.
14. Jason Kenney canceled an appearance with Nathan Jacobson, whose company in Tel Aviv, Paygea, processed payments for online gaming and adult websites. John Baird was also Jacobson's buddy and yet another dear friend got a bid. I guess the cosmetics dudes and dudettes went home / home. (Wikileaks Dead Sea minerals thingy, the financing of settlers, West Bank resources, scam&spam locksmiths.)
15. Amanda Michelle Todd is harrassed, extorted to death.
16. Vic Toews: the gun registry costs were either a million or a billion dollars.
17. The PM confounds everyone by announcing domestic policy in Davos, Switzerland (pensions) at the World Economic Forum.
18. Niagara is one of the two and final cultural capitals: $1.625m  for 1812 activities. Canadian officials select California-based Hornblower to provide boat tours, replacing American-owned Maid of the Mist Steamboat Company that operated at the falls since 1846. Calgary, the other, celebrates with an Enbridge, Nexen, Cenovus sort of Feel-the-Energy (get it?) orchestra playing a Russian, anti-Napoleonic 1812 Overture (get it? it's a nifty tie-in).
19. Canada's parliamentary budget officer wonders about the government's economic projections and whether budget cuts are even .... necessary.
20. CKUA gets a new building, then loses the news department.
21. Shell blames the whole Nigerian Delta mess on vandals. 
22. Calgary detective, Gerard Brand, of the "God Squad," gets busted for using the police database to sell Manila Capital Limited names, addresses and phone numbers. (more: rottenapples.info and what the HarryHackl is the Professional Standards Division) 
23. The Great Lakes fruit and blossom catastrophe. The US drought. Isaac, Sandy. Another 1 million bees die. First stage of new sarcophagus at Chernobyl’s nuclear power station. (Don't worry about Fukushima or other nuclear plants!) The Mississippi dries up, salt brine sinkholes out of control.
24. Omnibus B.S. http://local949.blogspot.ca/search/label/budget1812
25. Colorado wildfires. 
26. Assassination attempt on Pauline Marois and the participants at a Parti Québecois victory party: Métropolis. "The English are rising up!'yelled the well-armed man in a bathrobe. (Sept 4) “there’s going to be f------ payback.” One dead, one injured. 
27. It was learned that the fellow who beheaded his seat mate on a Greyhound bus in 2008 did so because it was an alien. (He's schizophrenic.) Apparently a year earlier, Greyhound announced a plan to enhance security, i.e. video, luggage inspections like airports do.
28. The long-gun registry vote. Gun fans cheer. Murder suicides. a) Not long before celebrations (the demise of long gun registry), a young man from Lethbridge tailed his ex-gf on the highway, killing her, the two male friends and injuring another girl, who crawled away and moved back to PEI, the one who made it home for. b) Family of three found in a ditch near St. Walburg, Sask.
29. The No's. The CRTC rejects Bell's $3.4-billion takeover of Astral Media. Bell says, N-o-o-o-! Dammit! we's a'gonna talk to Cabinet. Budget Rent-A-Car receives an order to stop photocopying customers' drivers licences, so it continues to take photocopies. (Also, Budget-Rent-A-Car has a cool appraisal scheme with itself for windshield and ding "repairs.") An Ontario Superior Court judge orders a by-election in Etobicoke Centre where Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj lost by only 26 votes. Conservative MP/"MP" Ted Opitz to the judge: No, and Supreme Court.
30. The Potato Incident with Calgary Alderman John Mar and 20 of his closest friends & sirens.
31. Machismo? Spanish Minister of Tourism (Balearic Islands, incl. Ibiza, Majorca, Minorca, and Formentera) poses with deer testicles on his head.
32. Oops. Critically endangered leatherback sea turtle nests are destroyed by bulldozers in Trinidad, a popular tourist destination for leatherback sea turtle nests. 
33. Not only does Google charge Project Glass guineau pigs $1,500, but the guineau pigs pay! 
34. Big Ben is re-gifted by the House of Commons Commission to honour the Queen of England's Diamond Jubilee. 
35. Six Italian seismologists and a government official (L'Aquila seven) are sentenced to six years in jail for manslaughter. 
36. Bitchslappin' members of parliament, Greece, on-air debate.  
37. Tom Flanagan waxing idiotic about Canada's founding fathers. (See #10.)
38. In a time of Ozterity, let us... poof! change the name of ... a national museum.
39. John Herrera-Garcia (Jan 19, 1963 - Sept 11, 2012), baptized in honour of American president John F. Kennedy and the eighth son in a family of 11 children, dies after a May 23rd beating and kicking by Neo-nazi 1 (Garrett Elliot Lee Smith), Neo-nazi 2 (Chantelle Tiffany Campbell) and Neo-nazi 3 (Jarod Donald Henry). Update, Jan 25/13 "Last of accused granted bail"
40. Court delays in Alberta lead to sex assault charges dropped. A man charged in the bombing death of a young Innisfail woman was a family friend, her financial advisor and former RCMP.
41. Clark Kent quits newspaper job. 
42. Lost in the harlemhooplas this-1812-cultureCAPwhatnot, CalgaryStampedeNation100 and that-Encanada-Franco-airhead-whatnot is one measly article about Alberta Parks' 80th anniversary, that's all the interwebs wrote. (See #18.)
43. One of the world's creepiest men presents a reward an award to Canada's prime minster, who delights, was recognized, nearly breaks his face grinning. Christopher Hitchens is dead.
44. Conrad Black gets a permit. 
45. A Canadian PM goes up north to have private, exclusive lunches with party faithful, supporters only. Another PM had gonads to walk among protestors, kick up some dust. Oh man, ATVs, vroom vroom.
46. Peter Manbridge's Franklin Expedition propaganda tour. 
47. Suicide nets installed at Apple's Foxconn factories.
48. JP Morgan estimates that €15bn of €410bn aid to Greece went into its economy - the rest went to um, creditors. 
49. In August the Province of PC-Alberta cancels funding for Fort Macleod RCMP training centre, several months after a money's-no-object election campaign. The Solicitor General’s website stated one year ago that the “$122 million training centre will play a critical role in ensuring consistent, state-of-the-art recruit training and ongoing professional development for law enforcement, corrections and public security personnel in Alberta.” Oops, the town spent $3.5+ million running service lines in preparation for the facility. How nice it was.



Proposed design for the Alberta Public Safety and
Law Enforcement Training Centre.

50. After a fake citizenship and reaffirmation ceremony that was broadcast on TV by Quebecor's Sun Media last year, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney blames ... bureaucrats® and Adscam!® and refugees® and
51. Parliamentary secretary to the PM, Dean Del Mastro, is confused about Jeffs.

More to follow!

update: horse meat ravioli

More Not-So-Buon-Appetito: 

Nestle Admits To Horsemeat Ravioli, Tortellini 

WORLDCRUNCH.COM

panda, shark fin soup {&horse meat}

So, I notified Google (Blogger) about the Chinese search rsults and how no other search engine is doing it --- and ---- something is not just going rite with the ... 白黑美人美味吃 

WHITE BLACK BEAUTY FOR DELICIOUS EATING.EAT PANDA YUMMY TENDER, RARE LUXURIOUS PANDA FUR, PANDA CLAW POWDER MAN LONG VITASUPPS AND BOILED BLACK NOSES, PANDA LEATHER FASHION SHOE.

吃熊猫美味肉、 豪华熊猫皮大衣、 熊猫爪汤 or, 吃熊貓美味肉、 豪華熊貓皮大衣、 熊貓爪湯 and, softpornSPAMBOT on artisan real estate #cdnpoli with a Washington rally on Sunday, Feb17/13. #ForwardOnClimate

So, Obama's going to nominate ... Larry Summers, World Bank president? (2012), on how Africa is vastly underpolluted '91 -- and rhino horn use (medicine & jambiya).

Follow the money: Celine Dion #vegas Lunar Year 4711.

Cute panda real fur ear muffs and shark fins and clearcut recruit all fancy bamboo forest with stylishness and lucky wholesale ivory buddha, delicious trinket. But enough of that. There's more about Malaysia.

Or Maybe They Floated There on a Log

First Nations/Aboriginal Index

A. History of Aboriginal
 1. 300 Spartans Fought to Protect It  
The Standard Model of history.
“Some cats got it” – challenging Eurocentric history.

2. Myths of the Traveler  
Travelers’ Tales. Europeans were not the only travelers.  
Stumbling Upon a Continent. Beringia, and the early settlement of the Americas.  
Or Maybe They Floated There on a Log.  How Eurocentric scholars address accomplishments by other peoples. cont.