best of 2023

 Buffy Sainte-Marie is Italian.  jfc

best of 2021 and 2022

 Nothing but wildfires, floods, a pandemic and a new war.

best of 2020

Where to begin

• zoonotic diseases
• lethal foreign policy - Qasem Soleimani (Jan), Mohsen Fakhrizadeh (Nov)
• UIA Flight PS752 - see above
  
• Wortman massacre - Portapique & Colchester County Nova Scotia (Apr)
• morale-crushing Snowbirds crash - Kamloops BC (May)
• Canadian military report - dire conditions in Ontario seniors homes (May)
• wildfires - Australia, California/Oregon/Washington
  
• Beirut economic collapse & explosion (Aug)

It's Only August - albawawa.com

• US embassy, Jerusalem - Trump "moved the capital of Israel to Jerusalem" for "the evangelicals," lagging 4yrs behind John Baird (Oct)
• Israeli government collapse, again (Dec)
• new strain covid-19
• Alberta government's shoddy "reports" for health, curriculum, post-secondary, municipal spending, Allan inquiry,...)
  

best of 2019: Alberta forbidden words

UCP provincial government orders public schools to remove the word "public" from their names. Education minister: Adriana LaGrange, Aug15 by ministerial order. 

Lagrange is the Kenney leadership Red Deer pro-life stacker (special guest: hapner). See also Jason Kenney's 2016 interview with Ezra Levant.

Lagrange only was "simplifying naming conventions," along the lines of other "simple" things like UCP firing Elections Commissioner (Bill 22, "only merging" with Elections Alberta).

 

Ministerial rating: 0/5

best of 2018: USA forbidden words

The Trump admin's 7 deadly sins banned words at the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) are:
vulnerable
diversity
entitlement
transgender
fetus
evidence-based

science-based

HONOURABLE MENTION: A Republican dead pimp is elected in Nevada! Roger Stone called Dennis Hof the Trump of Pahrump. Trump's grandfather made a family nest egg peddling booze, food and women in Bennett BC. Very inspirational!

Dennis Hof in 2013

In other news, a Snopes report on the dentist (that shot Cecil a rare black-maned lion in 2015) and  Trump's newly-formed wildlife conservation council. In 2017, Cecil's son Xanda also was killed by a trophy hunter in Zimbabwe.

best of 2017 - Bonus!

Saskatchewan MP Gerry Ritz resigned in 2017. A highlight was his tweet about polls. He served Battlefords—Lloydminster from 1997 as Reform, then Alliance and CPC post-merger (2004) member.

Fascinating! The world tilts every 40-50 years and polls freeze.

In other science news, Stephen Hawking passed (1942-2018). His ashes will be interred in Westminster Abbey near Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.

best of 2017

NAUGHTY AND NICE

Naughty

In January, Sheila Gunn Reid's camera (?) was 'punched in the face'. She did not, as far as I  know, issue a clarification, unless that happened in court. 'You just hit me in the face.'

June: It did not happen in court. TskTsk, bearing false witness. Five million protesters worldwide at a Saturday Jan. 21 Women's March and there's was one incident and it happened to be an Alberta provocateur, her 'bodyguard,' a shady fake news outlet, one luthier, then a network of neoWeimar retweeters. Bounty hunting and death threats ensued.

The link on that tweet http://bit.ly/2jjtgTr goes here: http://podblanc.guru/index.html. The account itself @STOPSYTGENOCIDE was gone shortly thereafter (neo-Nazi Paul Craig Cobb? Location, North Dakota). The account was harassing one @stonekettle.

It would appear that de-escalation efforts are what happened, when organizers ushered Mr Bews away and no face was punched. The spouse of Canada's former PM, Laureen Harper, didn't see it that way and lobbed a big cocktail into SGR's molotov mob fire.

Neo-nazi Richard Spencer however did get punched in the face the day before the Women's March. Journalist Ben Jacobs also got punched in the face by a Republican candidate while reporting on the Montana congressional election in May.

Nice

Gallery Furniture stores became shelters for Texas flood evacuees and Guardsmen in August.

Texas National Guard troops rest between
shifts of rescuing people in flood

best of 2016

Canada doesn't have solitary confinement, because luckily it's called administrative segregation.

Adam Capay has spent 1,560 days in solitary.
www.macleans.ca

• In the hole for 52 months.
• Youth justice system.

best of 2015

Top Ten 2015 bonus +4

14. Another tailings dam bursts. (San Marco, Brazil)
13. Referendumb!
12. David Letterman retires.
11. Chickenfuckers are chickenfuckers.
10. Another chancellor, another douchenozzle. (UNBC)
9. Oil prices.
8. Gas pump prices.
7. Errant DOD radar blimp takes out power lines. (Raytheon: $2.7 billion dollar project)
6. Off-label ingredients in hot dogs include human DNA.
5. Federal Conservative candidates avoid public debates.
4. Then again, there is sense in that. (E.g., Peegate)
3. Earthquake swarms in Alberta.
2. Canada's Finance Minister Joe Oliver delays 2015 federal budget (see #9) and sort of um, hides.

1. Volkswagon. Das Fraud. Das Daddy's Diesel.
11 million cars, the cover-up was wider than previously ... | Silicon Valley. diesel Volkswagens, diesel Audis, diesel Jettas... | Noxious admissions...

best of 2014

Super economic growth! Italy meeting deficit targets! New statistical rules, European System of Accounts (ESA 2010). Drugs, prostitution and smuggling, all untaxed and extant prior, will be part of Italy's, the UK's and Spain's GDP as of 2014. Italy can now comply with EU regulations for rates of national debt. On paper, Britain is practically booming. Spain's GDP will grow by up to 4.5%.

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

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!

best of 2010

*VAN 2010: dead dogs*
{tourism cate/gory}

The Whistler, B.C., sled dog massacre, after their "17 action packed days" by the manager of Outdoor Adventures.

The Facebook Page, "Boycotting Outdoor Adventures in BC, Whistler" 

Fawcett, who was then general manager of Howling Dog Tours, claimed he was following corporate orders for a mass cull because of depressed demand for dog tours after the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. theprovince.com

best of 2011

Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity

It is a three-way tie. There was the priest broom brawl in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity; the Italian seismologists who were charged with manslaughter after the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake; and the two last speakers of Ayapaneco, who don't like each other.

Stephen Anderson, former detective, testifies that NYPD routinely planted drugs on people to meet arrest quotas (eight officers arrested).

So far (2012): Charles Monnett, under investigation about melting arctic ice ('polarbeargate'), was finally reprimanded for forwarding an e-mail and otherwise cleared of scientific misconduct.

That charge should be brought to Ann Coulter, who confuses radon—or who really knows what—with {uranium, cesium, plutonium, polonium, strontium, radioactive iodine, sulphur, tellurium, helium or other fukushima cocktails}.