on the dime

Jim Flaherty said he was not aware of friend's tax haven dealings. Oopsie, $3 million worth of gold was sold off as slag — at a fraction of its worth. {to whom?}

The Jims, Flaherty and Love, Chairman of Royal Canadian Mint

Anyway. Following his budget speech last March, Flaherty railed against “people hiding their money offshore and avoiding Canadian taxes.” link

In other news, wow Julian Fantino has four pensions: in addition to getting a cabinet minister’s salary, benefit and pension package, Fantino is pulling in pensions from the Toronto police, the London police and the OPP.

Closure of veterans' offices, Lump Sum Disability Award and veteran suicides.

a licence to plate

Provincial neo-liberals, conservatives The Conservative Family can 'brand' (vb.) new provincial parties with names that just use public symbols, emblems or anthem bites like StrongFree word... thingies. It's ubiquitous, cost-effective advertising.

1. 

   Socred Len Skowronski says

   Beautiful BC Party 
2. Wildrose Party
3. Living Skies Party
4. Friendly Party
5. Yours To Discover Party
6. Je me souviens Party
7. Ocean Playground Party
8. Birthplace of Confederation Party
9. Be in this place Party
10. Cabot Party
11. Klondike Party
12. Spectacular Party
13. Polar Bear Party

A province's name is also operative, e.g., Saskatchewan Party.

MP Leona Aglukkaq's Christmas message
NEW NUNAVUT PLATE

stand your ground

Guns, beer, romance, beer, family,
farm, whiskey, marriage and babies

George Canyon wants to be a Member of Parliament for the new federal riding of Bow River, southern Alberta. His campaign song: Stand Your Ground. So it's Florida or RCMP gun confiscation all over again. The canyon (b. Fred Lays) is from Nova Scotia.

In other news, the godfather is suing darth vader for $6 million. The federal government last year pledged $2.8 billion for flood relief, suppose some of it will be a transfer to the Defence Dept. for CF disaster relief costs.

'WESTERN HOSPITALITY'

"Supporting provincial and municipal governments during natural disasters in Canada has long been considered one of military’s most important missions." Not any more, suckas!


CBC's Kady O'Malley's funny pics!
Conservative Party policy convention,
November 2013

year of the horse cull

Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development to heritage ponies: Fuck you!

Alberta permits the capture of 200 wild horses for slaughter.

Happy New Year!

Wild West Bon Appétit link

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.