Hy's and Loews

Caesars are expensive at Hy's Steak House in Ottawa.

Jim Flaherty hotel bills

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.