BC Rail

I don't know how much ("taxpayers"/public) R&D money was invested in BC Rail (PGE-BCR), since February 27th, 1912, but in 2004 Premier Gordon Campbell's Liberal Socred-Con government broke its election pledge not to sell it.

http://pgrfm.bc.ca

It was owned by the public as a crown corporation from 1918 until 2004. In September 2011, Gordon Campbell became Canada's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. A terrible mistake, 2003.

rofo's fun family days video

Rob Ford briskly walks into City Hall along with the whole scrum.
A reporter: Why don't you respect the taxpayers who elected you and answer some questions?
Rob Ford [silent]
Security: 'kay guys.
A reporter: What are you afraid of?
A reporter: Don't you owe people an explanation?
Rob Ford [silent]
A reporter: Why do you get so -
Security: Let's go, let's go.
Rob Ford: You know what...
Reporter: Why do you keep your itinerary secret?
Rob Ford [laughs]
Security [laughs]

A reporter: Why should people trust you ever again, Mr Mayor?
Rob Ford: Thank you, thank you.
Security: 'kay guys. Let's go, let's go. C'mon.
A reporter: Why should anyone trust Rob Ford?
Rob Ford: Don't worry, no no no no no.
A reporter: Did you ask Lisi to get the video back, yes or no?
A reporter: Did you ask Mr Lisi to get the crack video?
Security: Stop the yelling, guys.

Topnotch crack quarterback responds to Family Day
Lent weekend (Feb 17, 2013) video Q's. 

... run mofo run (or here, or here, or here).

panda app

Yumyum, eat Panda. I heart panda (China Daily).

panda, oops, black bear steak

Grilled bear steak.
Regarding carrion and fish, the meat won't taste as good as it does when a bear eats berries or grass.

Miss Paul Ryan-Speaking

Transcript: What they're offering people is a full stomach and an empty soul. The American people want more than that. You know, this reminds me of a story I heard from Eloise Anderson. She serves in the cabinet of my buddy, Governor Scott Walker. [crowd cheers, Paul Ryan blinks]

cont. She once met a young boy from a very poor family and every day at school he would get a free lunch from a government program. He told Eloise he didn't want a free lunch. He wanted his own lunch, one in a brown paper bag just like the other kids. He wanted one, he said, because he knew a kid with a brown paper bag had someone who cared for him. This is what the left does not understand.

A spokesman for Eloise Anderson now says she "misspoke."

sona, bigbird, namebadge

And who is this witness?

Big Bird, Pierre Poutine name badge &Sona

I smell a diesel bus.

fuck-a-duck!

Among other Conservative desecrations "modernizations," 50 volumes by the H.M.S. Challenger expedition go into a landfill.

4-year journey, embarked Dec 21, 1872

"Physicists, chemists, and biologists collaborated with expert navigators to map the sea." From The Voyage of the Challenger

last year, late friday

Aboriginal Affairs Minister, John Duncan (C-Vancouver Island North), resigned from cabinet last year, late on Friday, political interference. In July 2013 (cabinet shuffle), he replaced Gordon O'Connor as party whip.

Bernard Valcourt (C-Madawaska-Restigouche) was appointed Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada. See: oil & gas, Crown land and reindeer/caribou grazing.

To prevent road deaths, reindeer in Finland get fluorescent antlers.

Whoa, Finnish Reindeer Herder’s Association. link

it's a perfect day

测试 google

At least that's fixed. Now my browser is crashing, lol

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.