phoenix boondoggle

Rona Ambrose resigned in July as MP for Sturgeon River-Parkland. She was replaced (a) in an October 23 byelection by a 26 year-old Proud Boy, Dane Lloyd, and (b) as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada by a guy with dimples.

"In charge were then-public works minister Rona Ambrose (now interim Conservative leader) and Tony Clement, former president of the treasury board. Neither has expressed any remorse for the fiasco. The Conservatives eliminated 700 payroll jobs in dozens of departments, mainly in Ottawa, and created..."  -The Globe and Mail, 26 Feb 2017 

Rona Ambrose and her boyfriend had many Stornoway expenses for a temp job. Stornoway shouldn't be a residence for interim leaders. Then yachting with billionaire Murray Edwards from Jan 3-14 (and writing ethics commissioner about it on Jan 12), while freaking out about Justin Trudeau's vacation. 

Murray Edwards moved to London in 2016. His business interests include the Calgary Flames, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., Magellan Aerospace Corp., Imperial Metals Corp., and Resorts of the Canadian Rockies.

uncut.uk

Protest placards in the UK re austerity measures

ANNUAL COST PER PERSON IN UK

Public Forests: 30p each
Libraries: £21 each
Bank bailout: £31,250 each
Bank Bailout cost: £1 Trillion
Vodafone's unpaid tax bill: £6 Billion
Cuts to welfare: £7 Billion

UK Uncut, the new protest group against austerity measures in the UK

"We spent billions bailing out RBS, yet now the government are cutting our services," said Rosa Brown, 42, from UK Uncut. "They are letting RBS get away with the mistakes they caused and rewarding themselves with massive bonuses but punishing us."... US Uncut groups have sprung up from New York to Hawaii in the last three weeks and activists will demonstrate against government cuts and corporate tax avoidance in more than 50 cities on Saturday.

"UK Uncut inspires US groups to attack cuts and tax avoidance," Friday 25 February 2011, guardian.co.uk

mackay's very awesome airlift

In early 2013, the Canadian Forces (CF) starting charging municipalities and provinces for help in 'emergencies such as floods and wildfires, according to internal Defence Department documents.'

Red River in Manitoba - troops

Alida, in southeast Saskatchewan - troops

southern Alberta - troops

MacKay’s briefing note says that while the Canadian Forces mandate is to defend Canada and help exercise its sovereignty, assistance in the case of an emergency “should be viewed as a ‘force of last resort,’ to be requested only when all other civilian options and assets have been exhausted.” source

Except for fishing trips. In other news, January 2012, 14-year-old Burton Winters walked 19 kilometres before he froze to death in Newfoundland. It was a search start delay of 36 hours and a full night.

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*).