dustup at jails & fires

Calgary Prison Guards Rally At Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Calgary Constituency Office on Sat/September 15, 2012 -- "Mallette says the union has been trying repeatedly to meet with Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, but hasn't had any success." (After various protests at Harper's office, like Prorogue and Idle No More, no more of that youse... and Shoppers Only.) Calgary prison guards corrections officers protest at Solicitor General Jonathan Denis' office in Fri/ February 01*.

Grass fire - Calgary, Alberta

Edmonton officers are now on a wildcat strike with lockdown and riot police after the suspension of 2 union executives who on Fri/ April 26 relayed 'health & safety concerns' to management.

Fish Creek Park, dry & windy on Fri/April 26

*Russian student kicked into coma/ permanent brain damage by other inmates, Calgary Remand Centre.

Full moon: Thurs, April 25, 2013 1:58 PM

UPDATE: Associate Chief smartAssinine Justice John Rooke about the $100,000+ fines for province-wide strikers: "Banks are open tomorrow, last I checked." (Monday, Apr 29)

Amnesty ends strike.  Strike ends. Redford confirms pledge but

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update: mining the mint

"In 2006, for some unknown reason, non-magnetic planchets were used to produce coins with a P below the effigy of the queen."

2006P, magnetic and  non-magnetic

2006RCM, magnetic and  non-magnetic

1 cent values of circulating coins
2006     P     -    -    -    -    -    -    $ 0.01
2006     Magnetic     -    -    -    -   $ 49
2006     RCM Logo - Magnetic  - $ 0.01
2006     Non magnetic     -    -    - $ 0.01
2006     RCM Logo     -    -    -    $ 0.01
2006     P - Non magnetic     -    - 

1 cent values of uncirculating coins
2006     P     $ 0.13    $ 0.70    $ 5.80    $ 9.60    $ 20    $ 42    $ 82
2006     Magnetic     $ 80    $ 160    $ 190    $ 260    $ 420    $ 550  
2006     RCM Logo - Magnetic     $ 1.10    $ 2.40    $ 3.80    $ 6.30    $ 15    $ 40    $ 95
2006     Non magnetic     $ 0.13    $ 0.70    $ 0.95    $ 5.30    $ 14    $ 28    $ 39
2006     RCM Logo     $ 0.13    $ 0.70    $ 0.95    $ 5.70    $ 14    $ 30 
2006     P - Non magnetic     $ 100    $ 210    $ 300    $ 380    $ 480    $ 680
coinsandcanada.com

hehe, Togneri's back

On boogers in the body politic. The Alberta Wildrose Party Sure can pick 'em!

Sebastien Togneri, the high level Tory operative accused of blocking freedom of information requests

"Togneri set off a political firestorm when it was revealed by The Canadian Press that he, as a senior aide to then Public Works Minister Christian Paradis, had ordered the "unrelease" of a sensitive document that the department was set to provide to the news agency after a request under the Access to Information Act. As a result, he was the subject of a year-long probe by Canada's information commissioner in 2011 in which he was found to have meddled in a number of access-to-information files in 2010. The investigation concluded that Togneri had interfered with the release of a record, even though he had no legal authority to do so." source

Wildrose spokesman: Vitor Marciano 

update: DNA, horse meat, taco bell, iceland

wowzers. Imitation calamari = hog rectum ('bung')

So, there's horse meat at three Taco Bells in London UK. "Meanwhile, in Iceland, a food official said his team had found a beef product which contained no meat at all."

There was no mammalian DNA in beef pies, said Chief meat inspector Kjartan Hreinsson.

Taco Bell joins a long list of food providers — Nestle, Burger King, Tesco, Birds Eye, Findus and even Ikea — that have had to remove products amid horse meat revelations.

mining the mint

Copper is slumping, down 5% in the last month, due to increased inventories (doubling in three months). The mint stopped distributing pennies on February 3rd, 2013. It's Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's bid to save Canadians more money lol, since a penny was 1.6 cents. Financial institutions will get reimbursed for collecting the metal. (Prediction: banking windfall) 
One Cent Coins to look for: (1) 1953-1979, (2) 1980-1981, and (3) 1982-1996

 

Years	Mass	Diameter/Shape	Composition
2000–2012	2.35 g	19.05 mm, round	94% steel, 1.5% nickel, 4.5% copper plating
1997–1999	2.25 g	19.05 mm, round	98.4% zinc, 1.6% copper plating
1982–1996	2.5 g	19.1 mm, 12-sided	98% copper, 1.75% tin, 0.25% zinc
1980–1981	2.8 g	19.0 mm, round	98% copper, 1.75% tin, 0.25% zinc
1978–1979	3.24 g	19.05 mm, round	98% copper, 1.75% tin, 0.25% zinc
1942–1977	3.24 g	19.05 mm, round	98% copper, 0.5% tin, 1.5% zinc
1920–1941	3.24 g	19.05 mm, round	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc
1876–1920	5.67 g	25.4 mm, round	95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc
1858–1859	4.54 g	25.4 mm, round	95% copper, 4% tin, 1% zinc (bronze)

Penny production ceased on May 4th, 2011. So far, I think I'm down 10-15 cents on penny-rounding at stores.

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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!

update: horse meat ravioli

More Not-So-Buon-Appetito: 

Nestle Admits To Horsemeat Ravioli, Tortellini 

WORLDCRUNCH.COM

panda, shark fin soup {&horse meat}

So, I notified Google (Blogger) about the Chinese search rsults and how no other search engine is doing it --- and ---- something is not just going rite with the ... 白黑美人美味吃 

WHITE BLACK BEAUTY FOR DELICIOUS EATING.EAT PANDA YUMMY TENDER, RARE LUXURIOUS PANDA FUR, PANDA CLAW POWDER MAN LONG VITASUPPS AND BOILED BLACK NOSES, PANDA LEATHER FASHION SHOE.

吃熊猫美味肉、 豪华熊猫皮大衣、 熊猫爪汤 or, 吃熊貓美味肉、 豪華熊貓皮大衣、 熊貓爪湯 and, softpornSPAMBOT on artisan real estate #cdnpoli with a Washington rally on Sunday, Feb17/13. #ForwardOnClimate

So, Obama's going to nominate ... Larry Summers, World Bank president? (2012), on how Africa is vastly underpolluted '91 -- and rhino horn use (medicine & jambiya).

Follow the money: Celine Dion #vegas Lunar Year 4711.

Cute panda real fur ear muffs and shark fins and clearcut recruit all fancy bamboo forest with stylishness and lucky wholesale ivory buddha, delicious trinket. But enough of that. There's more about Malaysia.