lisa raitt: strikes are sexy

Never mind about the AECL Candu binder; it wasn't the same as Maxime Bernier (Beauce) and the tits cleavage biker chick NATO files. Never mind about the sexy isotope shortage for cancer patients. Never mind about no one signing off on the CEO, Toronto Port Authority expenses or a $9000 lunch. And just never mind about proroguing (and even more proroguing, forty days and forty nights). btw, are MPs 'essential services'?

Geez. Electro-Motive plant in London (now closed) and its Caterpillar parent strike in Joliet, Illinois. Canada Post. Air Canada flight attendants. Pilots. Mechanics ("flying coffins" & Aveos outsourcing), baggage handlers, cargo agents. Canadian Pacific Railway and Pershing Square's 14.2% equity stake.

Welp. Saskatchewan essential services legislation deemed unconstitutional (07 Feb. 2012).

Recalibration: On January 19, 2010, Raitt moved from the Ministry of Natural Resources to the Labour Ministry.

The house was beginning to shake,
And good press it just did not make.
So Steve shut it down, Caused the country to frown. But then he was
saved by a quake.  

Nuclear workers: 900 scientists, engineers, technologists and technicians said 94+ per cent of members sanctioned the strike action on Thursday, May 3rd 2012: a stinging indictment of SNC-Lavalin's cavalier management style and brinkmanship bargaining. A union spokeswoman said Candu is looking to gut most parts of the collective agreement.

Ongoing: RCMP officers want to end a ban, in place since 1918, on Mounties forming a union or police association and having the right to collectively bargain. (Toronto Star, Nov 20, 2012.) "Toxic workplace": Mounted Police Professional Association of Canada (MPPAC), a merger of BC and ON associations, is expecting a ruling from the Ontario Court of Appeal in spring 2012.

Lay-offs: Canadian Space Agency. 100 staff and more to come? Speaking of SNC-Lavalin Defence Programs Inc. (AECL) and MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Inc., there's now a signed contract "to extend operational services for up to eight years for the Canadian Department of National Defence’s twelve Kingston-class Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels...Although their primary mission is coastal surveillance, the vessels perform a wide variety of operational tasks including search and rescue, fisheries and environmental monitoring, disaster relief, mine countermeasures and scientific research."

Does this make sense? The entire program of lay-offs in the public service is expected to cost Canadian taxpayers more than $2 billion.

Weird: Health care workers in Alberta have not had the legal right to strike since 1983.

on creeping canadians & databases

If a constituent writes his or her Member of Parliament, including address and phone number, with their concerns or questions, the information is entered into the Party's database? It produces profiles or ratings of individual constituents?

Garth Turner said that after door-knocking episodes (canvassing), it was back to the database, write everything. Jason Kenney: "They should be apologized."

Hat tip to Saskboy.

LIB: ManageElect08/Liberalist. CON: CIMS (Is sharing with municipalities or provincial parties bad?) "CIMS grew out of the Ontario PC party’s Trackright database." NDP: NDP Vote.

so i say hey hey hey what's going on

Every Thing We Do Promotes Savings.™ --- (luntz 101)
E.g. Kent: Blame media {for new furniture and storage costs}

Omnibs (bill c-38)

B.C. Conservative MP David Wilks (Kootenay-Columbia): “I support [the budget bill], and the jobs and growth measures that it will bring for Canadians in Kootenay-Columbia and right across the country. I look forward to supporting the bill and seeing it passed.”

article and video1 and video2.

open letter to rona ambrose@encanada

Yo.

I would have written the other environment minister (desert storm scud stud, Afghanistan reporter, Arthur Kent, oops that's his brother, Peter Kent), but since you babbled about Kyoto, novels, HappyOil™ (2006-07) and got this timbits tarball rolling and P. Kent babbles about finishing it or is it the 'engine' of the North American economy! (oops, that's the new provincial Minister of Energy, Ken Hughes), and now another artist is not very happy.

wow, multi-billion dollar buttons! - Ambrose, Clement, MacKay

And besides, you are Canada's new limousine winner! *$40,000* That Tony Clement is funny. I liked what he said about MP limos. "We work long hours for Encana Canadians."

Weird. Three departments refused to provide details on drivers' overtime citing privacy reasons: Environment Canada, Public Safety Canada and the Privy Council Office.

http://www.allanhardingmackay.ca

And that's not counting Franke James. More on roma androse, manRights™ and other Polish tax agreements.

the pretend arsonist and wildfires

Not wanting to appear as though the whole of northern Alberta could go up in flames -- including the oil fields, oilsands, gas wells, and any small town or city, hectare after hectare -- the Alberta government fabricates an arsonist: On Tuesday, the province said the fire was deliberately set and that investigators have pinpointed the ignition site and cause – though they wouldn’t reveal either. ($700m Slave Lake fire, Nov 1, 2011)

'I watched the whole town burn (May 16, 2011)

It wasn't out-of-control, really. It's better this way. There was no raging forest fire that overtook the city. No siree. It isn't a PR ('arsonist') stunt. It's just a little .... ditty ... to protect investments and ... and .... and .... reputation in the dry, dry pine beetle or peatless woods and a changing volatile climate.

Nothing got so hot, so fast, it blew up first. The Texas terminals are fine too. (See: A Look Back at the 2011 Texas Wildfires)

Be part of the non-renewable energy.™

oh, gary mar, rosey backstabbers, premiers & oda

Mum's the word. Don't tell Redford.. The dude (Gary Mar, Alberta’s Envoy to Hong Kong) is vidicated. Or is he? "Rutherford claims Mar has been reinstated with full back pay. Last week a spokesman from Intergovernmental, International and Aboriginal Relations denied reports Mar had been reinstated, saying the investigation was still ongoing."

Rutherford must be Mr. XLRight.™ And nobody told the premier. It's kind of like when all the talk last year was to maybe, perhaps, maybe, perhaps, or maybe consider a new national energy program, er, national energy strategy or plan. (But who needs that when you have a new, big gestapo 'mandate'-stick called a federal majority.) Redford mentions NEPlan a couple of months ago and, oh, it's not the talk now, young lady. Today, à la eastern bastards freeze in the dark ... wedgie big scary lieberals stuff and chanting. bwahahaha.

Anyway, Redford's Oil Coach (Allan Markin) left his job. Election Day. Trying to figure out which candidates live in my constituency. It could be fewer than I thought. That's odd. Illegal donations to the PC party: the 'attack chihuahua' (Alberta Chief Electoral Officer, Brian Fjeldheim) is on it. 

It seems slightly, just slightly ... anachronistic: Socred (fundamentalist Christianity etc, 1935-1971) to PC (drunken abusive premier limo-boy yelling and throwing coins at bums, 1971-present) to Reform Party Wildrose, ... whew. All of the parties' leaders are not a sure thing. Note to self: I can't forget the unconstitutional, cart-before-the-horse, waiting for nothing Triple E pretend senators.  

It doesn't really square with a project for a new north american century. Or does it. And, limo-girl, Bev Odious Oda. Oops, wrong "not" scandal. Save Money With Cons.™ Oops, wrong limo/chauffeur scandal. Here: Apr 23 2012. "Five Star Hotel not Good Enough"

vote moving...

Maple Ridge resident calls for federal voter fraud inquiry: 
Bryant said he got his total of the 4,635 majority-making votes from 13 of the closest races he could find, many of them in the Greater Toronto Area. According to Bryant, who said he has training in fraud management, Canada’s electoral system is wide open to abuse. Georgia Straight

More voters-list issues found in Toronto riding:  
At least 2,700 such applications were approved and signed by an elections official so that the applicant could vote. But an examination by CBC News shows most of them have address problems. Some give addresses of a bank or a UPS store, where nobody lives. Others have no address at all. And most have no previous address  CBC

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open letter to stehpen hapner

Please fire Rob Anders. No one can get rid of him. I know you're Tite™ ("Rob is a true reformer and a true conservative. He has been a faithful supporter of mine and I am grateful for his work.") but psst he's a loser. Or buy the dude a friggin alarm clock. Or better, continue the big, long boot from the veterans affairs committe,

on to parliament's lawn. or tulips, whatever.
sincerely

federal budget 1812

It's an Industrial Revolution ! As long as miners, investors and stock market 'thought leaders' ccce's like it, yep, the main event, git 'er done. Wealth will trickle flake down like gold in Jason Kenney's ass trump's plane.

http://industrialchristmascarol.blogspot.ca/

Like effluent in tailings ponds, asbestos fibers in workers' lungs and happy uraniums for ... everybody! Nature Canada, press release: ... is particularly concerned about plans to amend the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations that expands a loophole in the Fisheries Act. Now, diamond and coal mining companies will join metal mining companies in being allowed to dump toxic waste into Canada’s living lakes.

(... few questions about MP pension plans, corporate lobbying, AECL/ SNC-Lavalin, CPP executive bonuses, F-35s.) Enough about metals, minerals, oil, gas, $13.5m for pipelines and $35.7m for tankers. It'll be fun setting up a full-fledged laboratory, somewhere, maybe the kitchen or beside the sofa, to test food product labels myself in my spare time - and when I let a company know about the results from my lab, it will can give itself a fine for possible misleading advertising or ... dangerous ingredients. hey... And why not test for GMOs too: I'll buy a book !